Chicago Sunnyside Podcast

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Nehez Meniooh, Kasabez Maakmaah & Giziribtah Debasah Guest: Dr. Haki Madhubuti The Sunnyside crew got out to Third World Press to interview its founder and co-founder of the Institute of Positive Education & Betty Shabazz Charter School, distinguished poet, writers, activist and organizer, Dr. Haki Madhubuti. In th...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Nehez Meniooh & Giziribtah Debasah Guests: Elder Anthony Cole We continue our series honoring our Elders, confronting the way we’re encouraged to devalue them. We speak to genealogist Elder Anthony Cole who teaches us how to get started in investigating in our family history. Our first and most important step must be i...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Nehez Meniooh, Kasabez Maakmaah & Giziribtah Debasah Guests: Elders of Tahbalo, Tem knife dancers & horsemen We just returned from our Annual pilgrimage. Every year The Earth Center hosts an Annual Pilgrimage taking members, students, initiates and guests to tour the cultural and spiritual sites of Kemet (Indigenou...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Nehez Meniooh, Kasabez Maakmaah & Giziribtah Debasah This is our second installment of our coverage and commentary on Kebtah's (The Earth Center's) 30 Year Anniversary Celebration at the Het Aishat Temple in Togo. This amazing 3 day and 3 night event was part of Kebtah's Annual Cultural and Spiritual Pilgrimage to Meri...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Kasabez Maakmaah & Giziribtah Debasah After our Annual Pilgrimage to Meritah (Africa), the Sunnyside team revisits the value of Meritah (African) culture and why you won't understand even if you experience it yourself. IYKYK. In this episode, we spoke about: 0:00 - 2:07 Intro 2:08 - 7:28 Misconceptions about Meritah Cu...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Nehez Meniooh, Kasabez Maakmaah & Giziribtah Debasah The world is coming together to stand up for Burkina Faso and its President, Ibrahim Traore after yet another coup attempt and ridiculous accusations by a American General and head of AFRICOM, Michael Langley. We speak on our activities in Burkina Faso, visits to the...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Nehez Meniooh & Kasabez Maakmaah Happy Charm of Aishat In this episode, our hosts speak about the hypocrisy of the modern world presenting Indigenous People's Day after a thorough extermination of Indigenous People and their Culture. They speak about the calendar and holidays of the Pharaonic Calendar, preserved by ind...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Nehez Meniooh & Giziribtah Debasah Guest: Elmer Dixon, Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party’s Seattle Chapter Happy Sunstick Day! The Black Panther Party was a powerful movement of young people motivated by the love of themselves and their communities took responsibility for the protection and well-being of their neig...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Nehez Meniooh & Giziribtah Debasah Guest: Elmer Dixon, Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party’s Seattle Chapter The Black Panther Party was a powerful movement of young people motivated by the love of themselves and their communities took responsibility for the protection and well-being of their neighborhoods. Though it...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Kasabez Maakmaah & Giziribtah Debasah Guest: Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. of the Black Panther Party Cubs The Sunnyside Podcast crew came out to Maywood, Illinois for a tour of The Hampton House, the childhood home of the late Chairman Fred Hampton Sr. of the Black Panther Party Illinois Chapter. On December 4, 1969, the...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Nehez Meniooh, Kasabez Maakmaah & Giziribtah Debasah Guests: Jahzra Shemzura Coming out of our Community Defense series, we return to celebrating the 25th year of Kebtah’s impact on the city of Chicago. We discuss the transformational potential of the mission in assisting all of us in confronting the prison industrial...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Nehez Meniooh, Giziribtah Debasah & Kasabez MAAKMAAH Guests: Omar Torres & Jose Guzman We begin a series on the cultural diversity that exists within Chicago with the city’s longest standing Latino or AfroCaribbean cultural center, the Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center. We speak to the executive director and one...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Giziribtah Debasah & Kasabez Maakmaah Guest: Desmond Owusu We continue our series on cultural preservation and diversity with Desmond Owusu of the Ghana National Council Chicago and Betty Shabazz International Charter School. Links: Ghana National Council, Chicago: https://gncchicago.org/ Betty Shabazz International Ch...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Giziribtah Debasah & Kasabez Maakmaah Guest: Owen LeRoi We continue our series on cultural diversity in Chicago with the city’s Haitian American Museum of Chicago. We speak to their Special Projects Coordinator about his history as a high profile radio host in Haiti, Haiti's legacy of funding revolutions in the western...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Nehez Meniooh & Kasabez Maakmaah Happy Kemetic New Year The Sunnyside Podcast returns after a short hiatus. In this episode, our hosts speak on the Kemetic Sidereal Calendar, which is humanity's original calendar. We get into the disconnection of the modern human from our understanding of and harmonization with nature...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Giziribtah Debasah & Kasabez Maakmaah In this special live episode, we cover Burkina Faso's new national holiday, the Day of Customs and Traditions. We cover the transitional president, Captain Ibrahim Traore's historic visit to the National Culture Museum in the nation's capital, Ouagadougou, where he reemphasized the...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Nehez Meniooh & Giziribtah Debasah Guests: Orion Meadows & Shunda Collins In our final interview in our Community Defense series, we speak to two members of the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago (INVC) a non-profit organization working in community violence intervention and victim services. Like many others, not ju...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Nehez Meniooh & Kasabez Maakmaah Guests: Nubian Malik & Osei Sankara of the Chicago Bolozi Wazee This is a special LIVE episode to give our guests an unfiltered opportunity to express the value of Kwanzaa. We will also speak on their work in self-defense and survival training.

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Host: Kasabez Maakmaah Guest: Ameera Pernebsati In this episode, we touch on the tragic trend of disappearing girls in Chicago and tie it into the worldwide pandemic of human trafficking. Topics include: Dangers faced by migrants around the world in search of a "better life" in the US and Europe Signs of ssexual abuse and abusers...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Giziribtah Debasah & Nehez Meniooh Guests: Dr. Ameena Matthews We continue our series on community protection with a daughter of Chicago Royalty when it comes to street organization. Dr. Ameena Matthews is a mother, political activist and violence interrupter. During the episode, she sheds some light on her path to pea...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Kasabez Maakmaah, Giziribtah Debasah & Nehez Meniooh Guests: Marquinn McDonald We start our new series on community protection with Marquinn McDonald of Watchguard Chicago. McDonald is a master of self-defense. Studying and teaching martial arts as well as competing in martial arts competitions he teaches self-defense...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Nehez Meniooh, Kasabez Maakmaah & Giziribtah Debasah Guest: Nekhitem Kamenthu, Executive Director of The Earth Center In this continuation of our commemoriation of 25 years of the Kebtah mission in the West, we speak with our Executive Director, Nekhitem Kamenthu. We talk about our experiences working to keep this miss...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Nehez Meniooh & Kasabez Maakmaah In this final installment of our series on health and healing your hosts bring the topic to a close with some poignant analysis.

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Nehez Meniooh & Kasabez Maakmaah Guest: Cicely McClennon In our final interview in our series on health resources, we turn our attention to food. Our guest this time is Cicely McClennon. Cicely is a long time activist and organizer for revolutionary struggle. Her focus has been on food sovereignty, the effort to contro...

Get in touch with us. We love to hear from you! Chicagosunnyside.net Hosts: Nehez Meniooh, Kasabez Maakmaah & Giziribtah Debasah Guests: Dr. Obari Cartman We continue our series on healing resources with an episode on mental health. We talk to a leading African-centered mental health practitioner, Dr. Obari Adéye Cartman. Dr. Cartman Is the former director of the Chicago chapter of the Associa...