Hey y'all, welcome to a new season of You Had Me at Black. I'm Martina Abraham Zalunga. Can you believe it? This is our seventh season and in a couple of months we'll be coming up on our fifth birthday.

Over the last several years and seasons, we've been capturing the stories of our generation, the millennial

generation,

how we navigate love and work and family and adulting,

stories of our losses and our wins,

our fight, our softness, of our pain and of our growth.

Over 100 stories later, I'm proud to say that we're an archive of black millennial life.

And as we grow and evolve as people, so does you have me at black to reflect us.

Each story is like a thread in the quilt that is our community, one whose design

changes as we keep sewing. We've experienced a ton of history in our lives, but I think 2020 and 2021 are truly pivotal years.

They've unraveled so much of what we thought we had figured out and altogether, and really

forced us to rethink everything from how we work and rest

to how we love and care for ourselves and our families.

And it's challenges to re-evaluate some of the bigger questions, like, what exactly are we fighting for?

What does liberation of freedom look like?

Not just for us individuals, but also collectively. This season we tried something new and that's

giving it a theme. So to reflect on all that's been laid bare for us in this last year. This season's theme is

unraveling. You'll hear stories from all kinds of folks about the moment they

confronted the things that they try to ignore or push aside for too long.

These stories are about the work, the messiness in between our valleys and our peaks. The healing. I can't wait for you to hear what happened. So I guess I guess you know like girl magic and all that good shit I am definitely a

motherfucking mermaid I took my shirt off I was like oh yeah this cool but they start taking everything off I was like

niggas don't skinny dip. Black women are healers and nobody can tell me any different.

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