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Listen to today's discussion on Chapter 7 and 8 of "What It Takes to Heal" by Prentis Hemphill. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here: ⁠⁠https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hKh81SLpJixqlbznPnAYz6bW4h5d2WOWSJzC7slCs7k/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.sa0dkhn9q7vo⁠⁠ We hope this helps guide you on your own journey of healing.

Listen to today's discussion on Chapter 5 and 6 of "What It Takes to Heal" by Prentis Hemphill. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here: ⁠https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hKh81SLpJixqlbznPnAYz6bW4h5d2WOWSJzC7slCs7k/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.sa0dkhn9q7vo⁠ We hope this helps guide you on your own journey of healing.

Listen to today's discussion on Chapter 3 and 4 of "What It Takes to Heal" by Prentis Hemphill. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here: ⁠https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hKh81SLpJixqlbznPnAYz6bW4h5d2WOWSJzC7slCs7k/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.sa0dkhn9q7vo⁠ We hope this helps guide you on your own journey of healing.

Listen to today's discussion on Chapter 1 and 2 of "What It Takes to Heal" by Prentis Hemphill. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hKh81SLpJixqlbznPnAYz6bW4h5d2WOWSJzC7slCs7k/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.sa0dkhn9q7vo We hope this helps guide you on your own journey of healing.

This week, in part 5, we continue to cover the character Cypress as she navigates moving across the county, new relationships, and heartache. As always, we have created a free study guide for this book, that you can access here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z3GZ8huIpuc6Ixq1b52pfABBoAH1qvty0LX0JLEU6D4/edit?usp=sharing

This week, in part 4, we cover the character Cypress as she navigates moving across the county, new relationships, and heartache. As always, we have created a free study guide for this book, that you can access here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z3GZ8huIpuc6Ixq1b52pfABBoAH1qvty0LX0JLEU6D4/edit?usp=sharing

This week, in part 3, we continue to cover the character Sassafrass as she navigates through her relationships with her lover, her sister and her self.  As always, we have created a free study guide for this book, that you can access here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z3GZ8huIpuc6Ixq1b52pfABBoAH1qvty0LX0JLEU6D4/edit?usp=sharing

This week, in part 2, we cover the character Sassafrass as she navigates through her relationships with her lover, her mother and her self.  As always, we have created a free study guide for this book, that you can access here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z3GZ8huIpuc6Ixq1b52pfABBoAH1qvty0LX0JLEU6D4/edit?usp=sharing

Welcome back listeners! In this new season we will be discussing Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo by Ntozake Shange. For this six part series Zami A. and Sadie are joined by a special guest and book lover, Imani! Part 1 covers the character Indigo as she navigates through the transition of girlhood into womanhood.  As always, we have created a free study guide for this book, that you can access her...

Listen to today's discussion on the racist history of the US Department of Agricultural. The conversation is based off the topics and information we learned while reading Chapter 9 of Black Food Matters.  We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vStTBWyr80mqtH7y7kQIr3LvOwFnGMBUf2gNdeipwGlevbSXa6AwkAKekGR6EWryQ/pub We hope...

Listen to the last episode of the season, as we discuss resistance and capitalism in modern food landscapes. The conversation is based off the topics and information we learned while reading Chapter 10 of Black Food Matters. We've created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vStTBWyr80mqtH7y7kQIr3LvOwFnGMBUf2gNdeipwGlevbSXa6AwkAKekGR...

Listen to today's discussion on Black women in agricultural spaces. The conversation is based off the topics and information we learned while reading Chapter 8 of Black Food Matters. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vStTBWyr80mqtH7y7kQIr3LvOwFnGMBUf2gNdeipwGlevbSXa6AwkAKekGR6EWryQ/pub We hope this helps guide you on yo...

Listen to today's discussion on the Black history of BBQ. The conversation is based off the topics and information we learned while reading Chapter 7 of Black Food Matters. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vStTBWyr80mqtH7y7kQIr3LvOwFnGMBUf2gNdeipwGlevbSXa6AwkAKekGR6EWryQ/pub We hope this helps guide you on your own jou...

Listen to today's discussion on the gentrification of Soul Food. The conversation is based off the topics and information we learned while reading Chapter 6 of Black Food Matters. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vStTBWyr80mqtH7y7kQIr3LvOwFnGMBUf2gNdeipwGlevbSXa6AwkAKekGR6EWryQ/pub We hope this helps guide you on your...

Listen to today's discussion on "healthy food" in relation to food access. The conversation is based off the topics and information we learned while reading Chapter 5 of Black Food Matters. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vStTBWyr80mqtH7y7kQIr3LvOwFnGMBUf2gNdeipwGlevbSXa6AwkAKekGR6EWryQ/pub We hope this helps guide yo...

Listen to today's discussion on white centric food ideals and how they negatively affect our relationship with food. The conversation is based off the topics and information we learned while reading Chapter 4 of Black Food Matters. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vStTBWyr80mqtH7y7kQIr3LvOwFnGMBUf2gNdeipwGlevbSXa6AwkAK...

Listen to today's discussion on the intersections of The Black Panther Party and food security. The conversation is based off the topics and information we learned while reading Chapter 3 of Black Food Matters. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vStTBWyr80mqtH7y7kQIr3LvOwFnGMBUf2gNdeipwGlevbSXa6AwkAKekGR6EWryQ/pub We hop...

Listen to today's discussion on the intersections of community activism and food security. This conversation is based off the topics and information we learned while reading Chapter 2 of Black Food Matters. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vStTBWyr80mqtH7y7kQIr3LvOwFnGMBUf2gNdeipwGlevbSXa6AwkAKekGR6EWryQ/pub We hope th...

Join us as we discuss our evolving access to food in relation to the topics and information we learned while reading Chapter 1 of Black Food Matters.  We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vStTBWyr80mqtH7y7kQIr3LvOwFnGMBUf2gNdeipwGlevbSXa6AwkAKekGR6EWryQ/pub We hope this helps guide you on your own journey of understan...

David Brooks wrote 865 words about how gourmet sandwiches are ruining america. The gourmet sandwiches in the essay were supposed to serve as an analogy of the growing class divide. In this essay, Tressie examines how Brooks, both white and male, was “tasked with making a  mundane exchange meaningful to the rest of us” as his social status grants him the credit of being an intellectual authori...

In this essay, Tressie intimately discusses experiences involving sexual violence perpetrated against herself and other Black girls and women. She covers high profile cases like R. Kelley and Mike Tyson, and examines how the Black community reacted. She discusses statistics that state Black women experience violence at higher rates, and explores the difficulty of experiencing violence from Black m...

“Fabulousness…[is] about making a spectacle of oneself in a world that seeks to suppress and undervalue fabulous people.”- madison moore In this essay, Tressie discusses the ways people who have been devalued socially- the poor, the black, the brown, the woman and femme, the uneducated, the queer and all others who dare be anything other than white, male, heterosexual and wealthy- assert their rig...

In this essay Tressie discusses the relationships between African Americans, and Black ethnics, or Black people who were not born in the US, she refers to them as “Special Blacks”. She focuses on the perception of “Special Blacks” in university settings, and how schools capitalize off this perception while the rest of american culture will “not ask if you have an accent before it shoots you.” She...

In this essay, Tressie details a story of attending an Obama party in North Carolina in a neighborhood where, at the time, she found it hard to believe was the choice spot . At the time of the  party, Obama hadn’t been elected yet, but the party was filled with white people that were sure that he would be. They had chosen him. In reflecting post elections and terms of both Barack Obama and Do...

Join us in discussing the third essay in Tressie McMillian Cottom's book "Thick" as we unpack personal stories of sadness and frustration due to structural racism and sexism in both "professional spaces" and the healthcare industry.  We discusses the different levels of competence, we as humans struggle to keep up with in a hyper-capitalistic world, and the seemingly never ending struggle for...