Pausing for Sudan

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

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🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Today, The Stoop has a special episode. The war in Hana’s home country, Sudan, continues. Hana has been feeling the conflict here at home in the States. Today we pause and take a moment to reflect on the music that has been holding people together, and we highlight the voices of Sudanese Americans who are living through a reality that their homes may never be the same.

Many thanks to the kids of SANC School in California, musician Mazin Jamal and legendary songstress Salma Elassal for her songs of longing that carry us through these hard times.

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0:00.0	The stoop.
0:07.9	The stoop.
0:08.8	The stoop.
0:09.8	Stories come across to the black diaspora.
0:13.5	My cousins were water and grease girls, and I couldn't be a water and grease girl.
0:17.6	That's what I'm talking about, ballerina in the hood.
0:19.4	We be color geek y'all, 90 people.
0:21.4	When a black woman walks up to the desk in labor, what preconceived notions do you have
0:28.6	about here?
0:29.6	even though we had a hair shark.
0:40.6	Hey Hannah.
0:41.6	Hey Leela.
0:42.6	How are you with everything?
0:46.6	I feel like a lot is going on right now.
0:49.6	Yeah, it's just been hard.
0:53.6	I mean, I feel like we should talk about it in some way
0:56.6	because I just feel like I personally don't know what to do.
1:01.6	I want to do something.
1:03.6	I want to understand better.
1:05.6	I don't know.
1:06.6	I just don't know how and what way I could really help right now.
1:11.6	I know.
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