Episode 29: Black Enough

In Episode 29, Ashley and Gabrielle tackle the black experience. They talk about their own unique experiences growing up in the midwest and the east coast. What is being black enough? What are our shared experiences and what are differences that should be celebrated? 

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In Our Words: 

• The Philadelphia Negro, W.E.B. DuBois

• Go Tell it On The Mountain, James Baldwin

• The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander

• Black Skin, White Masks, Franz Fanon

• Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe

• Sister Citizen by Melissa Harris-Perry

• The Combahee River Collective Statement

• When the Chickenheads Come Home to Roost by Joan Morgan

Music (captions):

• “Nefertiti edges kinky” - Beyonce, 7/11

• “Show me something natural like afro on Richard Pryor/Show me something natural like ass with some stretch marks.” - Humble, Kendrick Lamar

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