Description: A 2022 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner
We Be Lovin' Black Children is a pro-Black book. Pro-Black does not mean anti-white or anti anything else. It means that this little book is about what we must do to ensure that Black children across the world are loved, safe, and that their souls and spirits are healed from the ongoing damage of living in a world where white supremacy flourishes. It offers strategies and activities that families, communities, social organizations, and others can use to unapologetically love Black children. This book will facilitate Black children's cultural and academic excellence. Meet the editors: https: //youtu.be/q21_yZCblk8Brief description: Dr. LaGarrett J. King is a Professor and Founding Director for the Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education at the University at Buffalo. With over 60 publications, Dr. King is a sought after speaker and leader in Black history education. He is a former classroom teacher who researches the teaching and learning of Black history in schools and society, teacher education and professional development, and the history of Black education.
Review Quotes: "The title, We Be Lovin' Black Children, establishes its premise. 'Be Lovin' connotes an immediacy, a now-ness, a persistence that is culturally based and applicable to today's enigmatic conditions. Give every new African and African American mother a copy of We Be Lovin' Black Children and the intricate, complex maze through which she must meander in her quest for emotional freedom is diminished. We Be Lovin' Black Children means we have been, are now, and will be lovin' and minimizing the barriers that separate us. It is explicit and replete with examples of the how. With the wisdom of loving scholars and teachers, the chains of oppression are weakened and eventually severed."--Dr. Adelaide L. Sanford, Vice-Chancellor Emerita, New York State Board of Regents