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While Black

127: Reclaiming Our Stories w/ Martina Abrahams Ilunga

While Black

REVOLT

Self-improvement, Education

4.11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

What's good While Black Family. Stories have played such an important role in our history and culture from the beginning, but as our influencer and impact on "cool" continues to grow so does this country's desire to tell, sell, and capitalize off of our stories. Well, if You Had Me At Black has anything to do with it, then our stories will be told by us, controlled by us, and owned by us. Not only am I here for it - I am a fan. Tune in to hear how they are helping black folks reclaim the power of our own stories - and while you're at it you may find yourself telling your own story. Make sure you engage with the podcast You Had Me At Black via IG and their website. Sponsor Deal! Don't forget to protect your internet activity by taking advantage of our sponsor deal for 83% off of Surfshark Internet VPN services please visit https://surfshark.deals/Whileblack   Don't forget to get social with While Black IG: WHILE_BLACK; TWITTER @whileblackpc; FB @whileblackpodcast or email: whileblackpodcast@gmail.comRecorded @ drsatl.com Theme song Produced by Wahid Gomes and licensed through Verde Music Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.3

Realizing like as an adult, you know, the media is really trying to tell our

0:40.0

stories for us. Like they're trying to feed to us that we are not worthy. That one

0:46.2

mishap, one wrongdoing means that we should die. Right. And that envy

0:51.3

deserve that death. And so, you know, I got me thinking like, what would it

0:55.8

take for us to have ownership over a narrative? And I was like, I can't go

0:59.7

after NBC and ABC. You know, who am I? I don't have those resources to tackle

1:04.4

that. But I was like, you know, the stories that I want to hear are just from

1:07.4

regular people. Like I don't want sensationalism. I don't want from a porn. I

1:12.3

don't want stereotypes. I want to be able to hold all the complexities of who we

1:18.2

are, our innocence, our joy, our anger, even when we do fuck up. You

1:23.0

know, this that grace that we extend, I wanted to hold making space for all of

1:27.4

that. For all of that, for all of that, for all of that, for all of that, for all of that,

1:39.1

for all of that, for all of that, for all of that, for all of that.

1:41.6

Welcome to Wow Black, a seriously opinionated podcast bringing you the real and

1:46.0

and raw on anything happening while black.

1:49.5

If black culture's there, we're there.

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