Obehi Janice: Gather And Murmur

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Performing Arts, Society & Culture, Arts, Personal Journals, Science

4.4 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Obehi Janice's family struggles to understand a death their doctors can't explain. Obehi Janice is a writer, actress, and comedian. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and has trained with Shakespeare & Company and ImprovBoston. Her essays include "To Sasha, Malia, and Bo," which appeared in Kinfolks: a journal of Black expression. She is a performer of stage and screen and can also be heard as a voice actress on radio, TV, and video games. Obehi was recently named "Boston's Best Actress" by The Improper Bostonian. Her one-woman show, FUFU & OREOS, will receive a production in February 2015 with Bridge Rep Theater of Boston. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A science story, huh?
0:04.0	Is NYU scientist the...
0:06.0	I felt...
0:07.0	I felt...
0:08.0	I was so...
0:09.0	And I just thought, well...
0:10.0	It was that golden moment.
0:13.0	Because science was on my side.
0:15.0	Hey, everyone. Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true
0:28.3	personal stories about science. We have shows coming up in New York City, special event March
0:33.0	3rd with Springer, and March 18th is our annual Brain Awareness Week show. Take a look at
0:37.8	Storycollider.org for more information. This week's story is from Obahe Janus. It was recorded
0:43.2	in December 2014 at Oberon in Cambridge, Massachusetts. generational curses will really challenge you.
1:01.7	They'll challenge your faith in God,
1:04.1	but especially they will challenge your faith in the facts.
1:08.7	Whenever someone dies in my family, my people, my community, when somebody dies
1:14.8	among us, two things are a given. One, we gather. Food comes in, music is playing, people are
1:25.8	weeping and crying and lamenting.
1:30.4	Children are in one room, adults in the other, but we gather.
1:32.5	We gather around the person who's mourning.
1:35.3	Second, we murmur.
1:42.9	In 2001, in June, my uncle Victor died from sickle cell anemia.
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