Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast that elevates stories, science, and strategies to help you raise and teach multilingual and bilingual children. Hosted by Dr. Veronica Benavides, founder and CEO of Bilingual Generation, an organization that helps children with bilingualism in their bones stay connected to their heritage languages and cultures.

In this episode, Carmen Kynard discusses her journey of embracing and maintaining Black language throughout her life, despite the challenges she faced in academia.

Carmen Kynard is the Lillian Radford Chair in Rhetoric and Composition and Professor of English at Texas Christian University. Her award-wining research, teaching, and scholarship interrogate anti-racism, Black feminist pedagogies, AfroDigital/Black cultures and languages, and the politics of schooling with an emphasis on composition and literacies studies. She traces her research and teaching at her website, “Education, Liberation, and Black Radical Traditions” which has garnered over 2 million hits since its 2012 inception.

Listen to hear Carmen's message of resilience, joy, and the pursuit of a more inclusive and equitable education system.

Here is a link to her current course: http://www.funkdafied.org/
You can also find her on Instagram at: @ckdigidesign