HH#555 Remember Me Now with Faitth Brooks

The Happy Hour with Jamie Ivey

Ivey Media

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🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

When Breonna Taylor was killed, her police report was virtually blank. Feeling as if she was suffocating in the initial silence and lack of public outcry, anti-racism educator and activist Faitth Brooks wondered, “Would the world care about and remember me if I was killed?”

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0:00.0	Hey friends and welcome to the happy hour with Jamie Ivy podcasts.
0:03.7	I'm your host Jamie and I'm so glad you're here.
0:06.3	Each week on this show, I invite a friend to join me and we chat about the big things
0:10.1	in life, the little things in life and everything in between.
0:24.5	Hey friends and welcome to the happy hour Jamie Ivy.
0:26.7	I am your host Jamie and I'm super excited that you're here today because
0:29.8	today my friend Faith Brooks is joining us on the happy hour.
0:33.2	Faith is a writer and a speaker, a social worker, activist and co-host of the
0:37.6	Melanated Faith Podcast, which I highly recommend you to listen to.
0:41.2	She engages in activism by working with nonprofits to find sustainable solutions
0:44.9	to systemic issues.
0:46.7	The focus of Faith's works today is crafting a communal space where black
0:50.2	sisters can explore rest, tenderness and softness and today we talk about just
0:54.8	that.
0:55.8	She's a book that just came out called Remember Me Now, A Journey Back to
0:58.8	Myself and a Love Letter to Black Women.
1:01.2	Today on the show we talk about what it looks like to find rest.
1:03.9	We also talk about why she wrote this book, who she wrote this book to and I ask her,
1:07.6	as a white woman, what does this book mean for me?
1:09.8	You're going to really enjoy our conversation.
1:12.1	Okay y'all, here's my conversation with Faith Brooks.
1:14.7	Hey Faith, welcome back to the happy hour.
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