OBP rerun🔁 On this episode, guest host Mara Thee Reporter looks at the foundational role of Black Americans in country music, and the barriers to entry that still exist with Brittney Spencer, Mickey Guyton and author Francesca Royster.

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OBP rerun🔁 On this episode in partnership with Level Forward, we highlight how Native women are taking on the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women’s crisis through film, makeup and motorcycles.

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OBP rerun🔁 Can the world of classical music become more inclusive given its history? Guest host Celeste Headlee speaks with the BIPOC musicians and professors making an impact on the next generation.

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OBP RERUN🔁 Guest host Mara Thee Reporter looks at the ongoing national mental health crisis and talks to people who are working outside the box to make a difference.⁠
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Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and on public radio stations around the country🎙pod.link/1533069868

New episode of Our Body Politic🎙 On this episode, Farai Chideya looks back at our conversations around Black maternal health with Tonya Lewis Lee, Rachel R. Hardeman, PhD, MPH, Anna Malaika Tubbs and Tressie McMillan Cottom.

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Author Zhalisa's tips for how to create your own affirmation:
✅Say your name
✅Speak in present tense
✅Choose a specific thing you have self-doubt about

For example: 'Zee is amazing at violin improv.' Share YOUR affirmation in the replies👇🏾

We're Breaking Through:
🎙️Why #PaidLeave is gaining momentum w/ @19thNews
🎙️More #GenderJustice news with @OurBodyPolitic
🎙️Where we're winning care infrastructure at the state level w/ Family Values @ Work Action
🎙️How suburban moms are making good trouble w/ @redwineblueusa

huge thanks to Our Body Politic (an @npr syndicated podcast) and guest host, Mara Thee Reporter, for featuring saddie.baddies and @thesoftlifepod in this incredible episode “how Black women are leading the soft life movement” with fellow guests: @zeeclarkebreathes and Dr. Judith Joseph 🤎

Black women are leading the #SoftLife movement🫂

In this episode, guest host Mara Thee Reporter talks with @drjudithjospeh on how to embrace living the Soft Life in a way that works for you.

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'Black women deserve beautiful things, period.'

In our latest episode, founder of saddie.baddies Priscilla O. Agyeman redefines the #SoftLife on her terms and encourages other Black women to explore what softness means to them.

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This was a good listen. I’ve been thinking a lot about a few things that were discussed.

Do you have morning and evening routines?🍵🧘🏾‍♀️📝

Every day, author of 'Black People Breathe' Zhalisa begins her morning by saying, 'Good morning, Zee. How are you?'

In our latest episode, hear Zee's tips for establishing daily routines centered on care: pod.link/1533069868

What's the relationship between the strong Black woman trope and high functioning depression? Psychiatrist @drjudithjospeh delves into high functioning depression in her advocacy work and is currently writing a book about the issue. Hear more in this ep: pod.link/1533069868

New episode just dropped🎙 Guest host Mara Thee Reporter looks at the idea of the “soft life” as a form of self care for Black women with psychiatrist @drjudithjospeh, saddie.baddies founder Priscilla O. Agyeman and author Zhalisa.

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'Growing up in Waco, Texas, people don't really understand like Black people are country.' — grammy-nominated country singer Mickey Guyton shares what it's like to be a Black woman in the industry

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Did you know the banjo is an African instrument?🎵 In our latest episode, author and professor Francesca Royster shares the deep contributions of Black artists to the roots of country music.

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🎵Because in a perfect world you get sober, I get skinny. We live off of more than pennies🎵

Hear country music singer Brittney Spencer talk about the meaning behind her song 'Sober and Skinny' in our latest episode🎙️pod.link/1533069868

#NowListening 🎧 Spending my MLK Day with Farai Chideya’s docuseries on the BIPOC folks who led the January 6 Committee investigation. It’s available in six 30-min episodes.

'We need to be open about our mistakes, open about our flaws, open about the things that we inherited before we were old enough to choose them.'
INHERITANCE author baynardwoods gives us some difficult but necessary truths in his recent appearance on Our Body Politic! 🔗 in bio!