At the House: Escape

You Had Me at Black

Society & Culture, Black Stories, Personal Journals, Arts, Performing Arts, Black Storytelling, Storytelling Podcast, Documentary, Black History Month, Black Podcast, Black Voices

4.0 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In our final cycle of our 'At the House' series, we hear seven stories about breaking free from people and situations that didn't serve them.

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0:00.0	Welcome to You Had Me Aplack.
0:03.0	I'm Martina Abraham Zalunga.
0:05.0	And I'm Brittany Abraham.
0:07.0	Sister, can you believe that this is our last week of At the House?
0:12.0	Nah, I really can't.
0:14.0	We started the series when shelter and place orders started to hit around the country
0:18.0	and no one knew what to expect.
0:20.0	Yeah, it's been a stressful time for a lot of people.
0:23.7	I mean, you got laid off.
0:26.6	Yeah, I did.
0:28.5	But we know people who've had it worse.
0:30.9	Yeah, yeah, you're right. And our hope was that this series would just be something light to lift people's spirits, you know, even if it's just for a few minutes, to get us reminiscing about the past or dreaming up a brighter future.
0:44.0	Mm-hmm, and the stories that people sent in did all of that.
0:48.0	Some of them had us rolling.
0:50.0	And some of them really made us stop and think.
0:55.0	They did.
0:56.5	And to close the series out, we're talking about escape today.
1:00.3	Honestly, I think it's fitting we're ending on this topic.
1:03.2	It captures how a lot of people are feeling.
1:05.5	For sure, we got the most number of submissions for this cycle.
1:10.3	But it really made me proud, like folks are out here breaking free from all kind of confinement,
1:15.6	spiritual change, relationships, and all these circumstances that just don't serve them.
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