EP 44: The Sounds of Blackness

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

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

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What is a sound that embodies Blackness? Today we invite you to unwind, lean back, disconnect and drift while we ask some phenomenal personalities, like LeVar Burton, Stacey Abrams, David Oyelewo, Shangela and more what is a sound that is undeniably Black?

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0:00.0	This is my voice. It can tell you a lot about me and I'm not changing it for
0:07.0	anyone. In NPR's black stories, black truths, you'll find a collection of NPR
0:13.1	episodes centered on the black experience. Search NPR black stories, black
0:19.0	truths wherever you get podcasts
0:28.9	The stool. The stool. The stool. Storage coming across the Black Diastra.
0:35.9	My cousins were water and grease girls and I couldn't be a water and grease
0:39.0	girl. That's what I'm talking about Ballerina in the hood. We'd be Color
0:42.4	I get you 90 people.
0:43.6	When a black woman walks up to the desk in labor,
0:48.6	what preconceived notions do you have about her?
0:51.4	I didn't even know we had a hair shard.
0:53.9	I didn't even know we had a hair shard.
0:56.9	I didn't even know we had a hair shard.
0:58.6	Let's do it.
1:02.8	Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black,
1:07.7	black, black, with silver buttons, buttons,
1:11.2	buttons all down her back, back, back.
1:14.4	She asked her mother, mother, mother, four, 15 cents,
1:19.2	cents to see the elephants, elephants, elephants,
1:23.4	jump up, fence, fence, fence, they jump so high.
1:27.4	Hey, that is a sound.
1:29.7	Hey, Hanah.
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