Breathe, Baby, Breathe: The Fresh Air of African Values
Welcome to Breathe, Baby, Breathe, a podcast from Community Healing Network, where we engage Culture Carriers in conversations that light the path to emotional emancipation and cultural healing for people of African ancestry. Listen in each month for a new conversation that will offer you emotional and cultural strength for the journey ahead. Come, breathe in the fresh air of African values. (Listeners' note: we were unable to remove approximately 90 seconds of the background noise that occurs during President Aird's opening remarks in Episode One. Thank you in advance for your patience and understanding.) || #DefytheLie and #EmbracetheTruth to #FlourishWhileBlack
Breathe, Baby, Breathe: The Fresh Air of African Values
Moving Beyond Bad History
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Community Healing Network
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Season 1
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Episode 8
"We can catch our own babies....We owe it to our ancestors to get all-the-way free."
–Melanie Funchess
In love, Jackie Dozier, Melanie Funchess, aka "Mama Mel," and Sherita D. Bullock, aka "The Baby Lady," are leading the effort in Rochester, NY, to rebuild the Black "Village." Known as "Shermakie," a combination of their three names, Jackie, Melanie, and Sherita are self-described gatekeepers of the Black village. Jackie, Melanie, and Sherita are modern-day QueenMothers who demonstrate not only the centrality of Black women in the movement for emotional emancipation and the complete liberation of people of African ancestry, but the sheer power of Black sisterhood.