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Hello, Flame Throvers, Shireen here.

I am absolutely thrilled and excited to have Dr. Mariam Aziz on the show with me today.

I've been waiting for this interview for a long time.

And the timing couldn't be more perfect bringing forward into 2021.

This beautiful energy, let me tell you about the superstar that is Dr. Maria Mazziz.

Dr. Maria Mazziz is of the Richards Center, Africana Research Center post-dectoral fellow

at Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Aziz received a PhD in American culture from the University of Michigan in 2020.

They hold a bachelor in arts degree in African American studies from Columbia University.

And Dr. Aziz's research asks how folks who practice unarmed self-defense contributed to

black power organizing and shifting ideas about liberation and gender. It also traces

how learning of martial arts was facilitated by U.S. military occupation during the Cold War.

Dr. Aziz's work was showcased in the 2017-2018 exhibit Black Power at the Schaumburg Center

for Research in Black Culture, for which Dr. Aziz was a

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