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You Had Me at Black

Society & Culture, Black Stories, Personal Journals, Arts, Performing Arts, Black Storytelling, Storytelling Podcast, Documentary, Black History Month, Black Podcast, Black Voices

4.0 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Fresh out of grad school, Blake faces a devastating loss that unraveled everything he tired to hold together by a thread for too long. This story deals with loss, addiction, and suicidal thoughts.

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0:00.0	This season, we're highlighting other indie shows telling our stories.
0:07.0	The Stute Podcasts is stories from across the Black Diaspora.
0:11.0	They're in their fifth season and digging into complex
0:13.8	conversations that we need to be having from a global black perspective. Check
0:18.5	them out wherever you listen to podcasts and at the stoop.org.
0:35.6	Hey, welcome to you had me at black. I'm Martina Abraham Zalunga. Before I dive in, you should know that this story deals with the loss, addiction,
0:40.3	and suicidal thoughts.
0:42.4	It comes from Blake. In 2015 he was fresh out of
0:46.3	grad school and figuring out what's next. Then a devastating loss sent him on a
0:52.1	tailspin, unraveling everything he had tried to
0:55.1	hold together by a thread for too long. Something had to change. Here's what
1:00.9	happened. How. Black Girl Magic and all that good shit. I am definitely a motherfucking mermaid.
1:14.3	I took my shirt off.
1:15.2	I was like, oh yeah, this is cool.
1:16.5	But they start taking everything off.
1:18.1	I was like, niggas don't skinny dip.
1:20.0	Black women are healers and nobody can tell me any different.
1:25.8	You're listening to You Had Me at Black.
1:30.0	It's August 2015.
1:41.4	I'm in a relationship living with my fiance in Chicago. Me and my girl at the time we had been together almost eight years by this point. I recently graduated from grad school from
1:44.1	FIU down in Miami. I don't have a job starting to really struggle with
1:49.0	depression because life was just hitting me and I'm out of college for the first time.
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