We Gon’ Learn Today: Black Homeschooling with Dr. Cheryl A. Fields-Smith

In this episode, our We Gon’ Learn Today series continues as Ekemini and Christina sit down with Dr. Cheryl A. Fields-Smith to learn about Black Homeschooling. Why does it exist? How did it come to be? And the ways that our beautiful Black children benefit from the Black homeschooling environment. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us! Dr. Cheryl Fields-Smith is an Associate Professor of Elementary Education at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. She earned her doctorate from Emory University in 2004. Her research interests include family engagement and homeschooling among Black families. Her book titled, Exploring Single Black Mothers’ Resistance through Homeschooling won the 2020 AESA Critic’s Choice Award winning. Dr. Fields-Smith is co-founder of Black Family Home Educators and Scholars, a space where Black home educators and scholars gather to set a research agenda and support one another in the effort of educating Black children with excellence. Follow Dr. Cheryl Fields-Smith: Instagram: @cfs1520 Twitter: @drcherylfields Facebook: @cherylannfields Facebook: @blackfamilyhomeschool Truth’s Table Listeners can purchase Change Sings here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634480/change-sings-by-amanda-gorman-illustrated-by-loren-long/ Black Women, join Truth’s Table Black Women’s Discipleship Group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/truthstablediscipleship Support Truth’s Table: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TruthsTable PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/TruthsTable Merchandise: https://www.teespring.com/truthstable