Natives

02/14/23 • 33 min

Akala’s Natives led this conversation in several directions as we explored its layers through class, community, race, poverty, and lived experiences. The hope is to collectively work to ease the human experience by accommodating its diversity, complexities, and suffering.

Other resources:

100 Amazing Facts About The Negro - With Complete Proof by Joel Augustus Rogers

What's Wrong With Being Black: Celebrating Our Heritage, Confronting Our Challenges by Matthew Ashimolowo

Microaggressions and Modern Racism - Endurance and Evolution by Charisse C. Levchak

Music credit: Best Time - FASSounds

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Other resources:

100 Amazing Facts About The Negro - With Complete Proof by Joel Augustus Rogers

What's Wrong With Being Black: Celebrating Our Heritage, Confronting Our Challenges by Matthew Ashimolowo

Microaggressions and Modern Racism - Endurance and Evolution by Charisse C. Levchak

Music credit: Best Time - FASSounds

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Music credit: Miyagisama - Savannah Time Travel

Music mentioned:

UB40 - One In Ten

Nispsey Hussle - Blacc Ice

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Books mentioned in this episode :

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Overture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R James

Things Fall Apart by Chenua Achebe

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by Bell Hooks

Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Ardent

Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

The Mind of Africa by W.E Abraham

Oh my Gods - Fiona Stoffer

C. L. R. James interview on his book "Black Jacobins" (1970) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUnO8lfoVBk

Music Credit : Africa Maasai Kids by SOFRA

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