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The Stoop

EP. 32: In Deep Waters

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Personal Journals, African, Storytelling, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Thestoop, International, Blackness, Society & Culture, Blackart, Blackculture, Diaspora, Identity, Journalism, Black

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Season 4 is here! In this episode we're talking about Black folk and water. Yes, swimming.  We hear from a man who nearly lost his life while on vacation, and take a deeper look into our relationship to swimming. There are a lot  of jokes and myths within our community about why we don’t swim more, but what isn't funny is that nearly 70% of African American kids don't know how to swim. Today, we break down stereotypes that we've even heard our own family members reinforce. 

Editor: Jen Chien Sound Designer: Seth Samuel Associate Producer: Natalie Peart

 

 

 

 

 

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Hey it's Hannah from the Stoop.

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Thank you so much to everyone who's already donated to Radiotopia's fall fundraiser

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and if you haven't donated to the network before you might wonder

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so we can keep making the audio that you love listening to.

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The longer answer is it takes an investment of time, energy, and, yes, money to create even a single

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episode.

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There's hours of brainstorming and research

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and reaching out to interviewees,

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then interviewing them, then going to get other tape,

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writing scripts, editing, sound design, all of that can take weeks and sometimes

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months from the time we start thinking about an episode to the time that it lands in your podcast feed.

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Thanks.

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