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Ebony Musings Ebony Musings
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Welcome to Ebony Musing, a literary podcast created to provide a safe space for Black women to discover wellness, balance and self-care through literature. Join us in conversation as we dive deep into the importance of self-care, balancing our lives and how literature has played a big part in our own personal healing processes. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ebonymusingspodcast/support
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R E S E T: Book-to-Film, Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
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On today’s RESET episode we are recapping the FX eight episode series on Octavia E. Butler’s celebrated novel Kindred. The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.
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R E S E T: Book-to-Film, From scratch by Tembi Locke our Final Thoughts
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On today’s RESET episode we are recapping Netflix limited series: From Scratch starring Zoe Saldaña and Eugenio Mastrandrea. This romantic drama is based on Tembi Locke’s bestselling memoir with the same name.
From Scratch is a cross-cultural love story that follows Amahle ‘Amy’ Wheeler (played by Zoe Saldaña) an American student studying abroad in Italy, as she meets and falls in love with Lino, a Sicilian chef. Their whirlwind romance faces many unforeseen challenges, including their very different cultural backgrounds; true to real life, it is also infused with lightheartedness and moments of humor that exist alongside the more serious ones. But when Lino is faced with unimaginable health challenges and the couple’s future is threatened, the two families come together to create an extended family unlike any they could have imagined, proving that love crosses all borders.
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The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
On today’s episode we are continuing our journey with the works of Alice Walker, and discussing Book 2 of 3: in the The Color Purple Collection, The Temple of My Familiar.
Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of dozens of characters in The Temple of My Familiar, all of whom are dealing with the legacy of the African experience in America in some way. From recent African immigrants to a woman who grew up in South America's mixed-race rainforest communities, to Celie's own granddaughter living in modern-day San Francisco, all must come to terms with their ancestors' brutal stories in order to come to terms with their own troubled lives.
Walker weaves a new mythology from old fables and history as she follows these remarkable characters, a profoundly spiritual explanation for centuries of shared African-American experience.
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Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African American Marriage by Dianne Stewart Pt. II
On today's episode, we’re continuing our conversation on Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African American Marriage. Dr. Dianne Stewart, professor of religion and African American studies at Emory University, argues that Black women are single by circumstance and points to intentional efforts by the U.S. government to prevent Black marriages from occurring.
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Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African American Marriage by Dianne Stewart Pt. 1
On today's episode, we discuss Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African American Marriage by Dianne Stewart
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Summary
In this analysis of social history, examine the complex lineage of America's oppression of Black companionship.
According to the 2010 US census, more than 70 percent of Black women in America are unmarried. Black Women, Black Love reveals how four centuries of laws, policies, and customs have created that crisis.
Dianne Stewart begins in the colonial era, when slave owners denied Blacks the right to marry, divided families, and, in many cases, raped enslaved women and girls. Later, during Reconstruction and the ensuing decades, violence split up couples again as millions embarked on the Great Migration north, where the welfare system mandated that women remain single in order to receive government support. And no institution has forbidden Black love as effectively as the prison-industrial complex, which removes Black men en masse from the pool of marriageable partners.
Prodigiously researched and deeply felt, Black Women, Black Love reveals how white supremacy has systematically broken the heart of Black America, and it proposes strategies for dismantling the structural forces that have plagued Black love and marriage for centuries.
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RESET: From Scratch by Tembi Locke Netflix limited series
On today’s RESET we are discussing the first episode of the Netflix limited series: From Scratch starring Zoe Saldaña and Eugenio Mastrandrea. This romantic drama is based on Tembi Locke's bestselling memoir with the same name.
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