Mother's Jewels

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

🗓️ 11 May 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Mother's Jewels is a two-part reflective series in collaboration with CultTV which explores how Black mothers pour into their children. The intergenerational lessons they draw from (or reject), and the life experiences they lean on. We asked eleven women, "What's a conversation you had with your mom, and one you didn't have, that you couldn't wait to have with your children?" These are their stories. Experience Part Two of this series, at www.youhadmeatblack.com/mothersday18

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to you had me at Black. I'm Martina Abraham Zalunga.
0:05.0	Mother's Day is coming up and I've been thinking a lot about my mom.
0:09.0	Growing up, almost everything she taught me had a backstory. It was either something she'd heard
0:15.2	from my grandma, her mom, which at that point is now a tried and true fact of life like your
0:20.9	siblings are your longest set of friends or something that she discovered on her personal
0:26.1	journey that she wanted to share with me so that I wouldn't have to figure it out on my own, like how to stand
0:30.7	up for yourself. For Mother's Day, we wanted to explore the backstories of different things that moms teach their kids.
0:38.0	So we asked 11 women, what's a conversation that you had with your mom that you couldn't wait to have with your children?
0:45.0	Here are their stories.
0:47.0	I want you to breathe all this in.
0:50.0	And I got... You're listening to you had me at Black.
0:57.0	Black.
0:59.0	Light in the heart of the city.
1:01.0	Black.
1:02.0	Man. Listen, man. Black. Man.
1:03.0	Man.
1:04.0	Yeah.
1:05.0	This is you have me as Black.
1:10.0	And we live baby.
1:12.0	First up is Malika, a 31 year old woman from the Bay Area
1:16.4	who's been a mom for five years.
1:18.7	Growing up, I didn't really,
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