249 - Truth's Table: Black Women's Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation with Theologian Ekemini Uwan

Be the Bridge Podcast with Latasha Morrison

Be the Bridge

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4.9 • 774 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

As a public theologian and a midwife of culture for grace and truth, Ekemini Uwan speaks and writes words of truth, of conviction, of wisdom. She joins Latasha Morrison on this episode of the Be the Bridge podcast to discuss the new book she co-authored, Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation. They talk through the chapters she wrote on colorism, deconstruction and decolonization, the realities of living single as a Black woman in America, and diaspora dreams. This conversation is packed with deep insights and knowledge. Ekemini shares needed reminders of the fundamentals of our faith and blackness as an image of God. She vulnerably shares parts of her story and heart. Ekemini is a theologian we can all learn from.

Host & Executive Producer - Latasha Morrison
Senior Producer - Lauren C. Brown
Producer, Editor, & Music - Travon Potts
Transcriber - Sarah Connatser

Quotes:
“Just because we're centering Black women doesn't mean you can't learn. In fact, you can learn a whole lot from a group that is deeply oppressed in this land about what it means to not only be resilient, but to overcome, to persevere, to bask in joy and Black joy.” -Ekemini Uwan

“You cannot be anti-racist and be a colorist. You have to be anti-racist and anti-colorist.” -Ekemini Uwan

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Resources Mentioned:
Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation Book by Ekemini Uwan, Christina Edmondson, and Michelle Higgins
Ekemini Uwan’s blog “Deconolized Discipleship” Truth’s Table podcast Get in the Word with Truth’s Table podcast
Black Women, Black Love: America’s War on African American Marriage by Dianne M. Stewart
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell

Ekemini Uwan:Website Facebook Twitter Instagram Be the Bridge:Website Facebook Instagram Twitter Latasha Morrison: Website Instagram

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Be The Bridge podcast with Latasha Morrison.
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0:09.0	Each week, Be The Bridge podcast tackles subjects related to race and culture with the goal of bringing understanding.
0:16.9	But I'm going to do it in the spirit of love.
0:19.4	We believe understanding can move us toward racial healing, racial equity, and racial unity.
0:25.0	Latasha Morrison is the founder of Be the Bridge,
0:27.8	which is an organization responding to racial brokenness and systemic injustice in our world.
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0:53.4	Okay, be the bridge community.
0:56.1	I've been looking forward to this all week.
0:59.3	It has been a tough, let me tell you, it's been a tough, I want to say week, but I want to say year.
1:08.5	But really the last few days have been tough.
1:11.1	And I was looking forward to this conversation with my sister.
1:16.5	She just told me, she said, you don't have everybody on here.
1:20.1	Now is not my turn.
1:21.7	And so I have a Kimmy, you're on, Sister Theology.
1:26.7	She is a public theologian, and she's going to explain that to us, who received her MDF from Westminster Theological Seminary.
1:36.5	Yerwan is a contributing writer for Hallmark Mahogany.
1:40.6	Listen, I just saw that.
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