Finding Joy in 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

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

You know it is Black History Month all year long on this podcast!

And we know that this Black History month has a lot of us feeling heavy, fixated on the news- from DEI being dismantled, to government agencies being shut down...

It's alot. The changes are daily, and drastic and… exhausting.

So, we wanted to step back, reflect and highlight what we know will keep us going- our stories, our voices.

Today, we're sharing an episode that is one of our favorites to celebrate Black History Month: The Sounds of Blackness, where we ask people to share a sound that embodies Blackness to them.

Plus we sit down with the late and great, Nikki Giovanni, who was a Stoop fan.

So get that cup of tea, relax, and enjoy the episode!

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to the Stoop.
0:07.3	It's Black History Month, but it's Black History Month all year long on this podcast.
0:12.7	And the start of this year has had a lot of us fixated on the news, things that are changing every day.
0:19.6	From DEI being dismantled to government agencies
0:23.5	being shut down. The changes are daily and they're drastic and they are exhausting. And sometimes
0:31.6	we just need to step back, reflect, and highlight what we know will keep us going. Our voices, our stories. So today we wanted to
0:41.9	share with you an episode that is one of our favorites, the sounds of blackness, to celebrate Black
0:48.3	History Month, to celebrate you and your voices. Plus, we sit down with the late and great
0:54.0	Nikki Giovanni, who was a
0:55.9	stoop fan. So get that cup of tea, relax, and enjoy the episode.
1:06.1	My sound of blackness is our Sudanese lullaby.
1:11.6	And nom, and numb, backerick, bed dome, and My sound of blackness is our Sudanese lullaby. My black sound is yurt. That's what we say out in Brooklyn.
1:13.6	And nom,
1:14.6	And nom ta'all,
1:16.6	y'all,
1:17.6	a l'ol, la.
1:19.6	My black sound is yurt.
1:21.6	Yurt is essentially you heard.
1:24.6	That's what we say out in Brooklyn.
1:25.6	That's what we say in the U.S.
1:27.6	Essentially, it's love to the folks.
1:29.3	And everybody joins, and they start saying, yeah, you're, yeah, yeah.
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