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#32. The Souljah's discuss the experience of being LGBTQ with Viveca "DJ Viv" Dillard. Lots of gems dropped on this one!

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#31. Abdullah delivers a solo episode discussing the misuse and misappropriation of the Reverend Dr. Martin Lither King Jr.

Helpful Links

1. https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/01/14/positive-view-martin-luther-king-jr
2. https://news.gallup.com/poll/20920/martin-luther-king-jr-revered-more-after-death-than-before.aspx
3. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/04/04/martin-luther-king-jr-50-years-assassination-donald-trump-disapproval-column/482242002/
4. Montgomery Bus Boycott Speech https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1955-martin-luther-king-jr-montgomery-bus-boycott/
5. Letter From A Birmingham Jail https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/sites/mlk/files/letterfrombirmingham_wwcw_0.pdf
6. MLK's Speech the American Psychological Association in 1967 https://www.apa.org/monitor/features/king-challenge
7. MLK’s Final Essay https://www.playboy.com/read/martin-luther-king-testament-of-hope

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#30 TThe Souljahs continue their Black Love series to discuss the contributions of Black art, culture, music, and intellectualism. Helpful Links

1. Theaster Gates main website https://art21.org/artist/theaster-gates/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjt-3rJDz8QIVojY4Ch1g7Q9sEAAYASAAEgLR8fD_BwE
2. Apple TV Home documentary featuring Theaster Gates https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/chicago/umc.cmc.6k66e1r0lk9qa5inu3z3sf8gl?showId=umc.cmc.5xjrgoblr5l5i1ypamtayuhe9
3. A Very Abbreviated Version of Black Art History
4. Black Artists of the 2000s Were Told to Stay out of Identity Politics – ARTnews.com
5. The 2000's – Black Music
6. Mary J Blige’s documentary (My Life)

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#29 The Souljahs tackle the conversation surrounding Critical Race Theory (CRT): What it is, where it comes from, is it hurtful or harmful, and how is connected to the broader national discourse.

Helpful Links

1. Lee Atwater outlines the “southern strategy https://youtu.be/X_8E3ENrKrQ
2. Unedited Lee Atwater interview (Audio Only) [The Nation]
3. MSNBC on critical race theory Joy Reid Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4TAQF6ocLU
4. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Testifies about Critical Race Theory https://youtu.be/H2CdPvR3PyY
5. The Thomas W. Smith Foundation has donated more than $12.7 million to 21 organizations attacking Critical Race Theory [Popular Information]
6. Although Critical Race Theory emerged in the late 70s, only since August 2020 has it been a researched topic online. [Google Trends]
7. CRT is admittedly used as a vessel to fill with whatever concepts are politically unpopular. [Twitter via The Pew Charitable Trusts]
8. John Rolfe and Pocahontas https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/john-rolfe
9. The Pocahontas Exception and the creation of race https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1115&context=mjrl
10. The Rolfe family https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/thomas-rolfe.htm
11. Racial Integrity Act https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/racial-integrity-laws-1924-1930/
12. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy explains Hermeneutics https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hermeneutics/
13. Black people who could vote tended to support the Republican Party from the 1860s to about the mid-1930s [USA Today]
14. Colonial charters and other official documents are written in the 1600s and early 1700s rarely refer to European colonists as white. [Facing History]
15. Most people think ‘whiteness’ is innate. They’re wrong: It was created to keep black people from voting. [Washington Post]
16. Slave bible [Wikipedia]
17. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signs law targeting critical race theory, saying she's against 'discriminatory indoctrination' [Des Moines Register]
18. Racial Violence In The United States Since 1660 [Black Past]
19. The Violent History of White Supremacy Is Rarely Taught in Schools. It Should Be [Education Week]
20. Butter by BTS [YouTube]
21. Summer of Soul documentary https://youtu.be/1-siC9cugqA

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#28 The Souljahs celebrate the 1-year anniversary of the Christian Souljah Podcast. Abdul, Justine, and Andres reflect on lessons learned in their first year, the state of their justice journey, a really crazy "liner notes" segment, and a lot of thank you's to a FABULOUS community of listeners.

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#27 The Souljahs return to their Black Love series to discuss the wealth gap, ideas for entrepreneurship, their thoughts on money, and reparations.

Helpful Links

1. Explained | Racial Wealth Gap | FULL EPISODE | Netflix [YouTube]
2. 10 myths about the racial wealth gap [Axios]
3. 7 Things About Race and Money I Learned From Interviewing Black Entrepreneurs [Time]
4. When a Black homeowner concealed her race, her home's appraisal value doubled [CNN]
5. What are Reparations, How Could They Happen, and Why Do They Matter? [Teen Vogue]
6. Growing the Gap Between Earning and Spending [Afford Anything]
7. Michael McDonald’s Greatest Hits [YouTube]
8. Median Household Wealth (Justine Add) 
9. Reparations and why we need them
10. 40 Acres and a mule (also related to reparations)
11. Home Ownership and Home-buying Stats https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/06/17/192730233/for-people-of-color-a-housing-market-partially-hidden-from-view
12. New York Times article on a longitudinal study on wealth .https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-class-white-and-black-men.html
13. Black people and equality of opportunity http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/race_paper.pdf
14. Wealth gap statistics Wealth Gap explains the episode 
15. https://www.google.com/search?q=average+house+income+of+white+families&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS924US924&oq=average+house+income+of+white+families&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i333.9388j0j4&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

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#26 In this “freestyle” episode, the Souljah’s discuss the new Juneteenth federal holiday. Is it a good idea? Is there a downside? What do we even know about Juneteenth, anyway? Abdul, Justine, and Andres enter the “virtual living room” to chop it up! 

Helpful Links

1. George Floyd Policing Act https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1280
2. Most Americans know little or nothing about Juneteenth https://news.gallup.com/poll/351041/americans-know-juneteenth-holiday.aspx
3. Emancipation Proclamation Issued https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation#:~:text=President%20Abraham%20Lincoln%20issued%20the,and%20henceforward%20shall%20be%20free.%22
4. Forgotten Verse of the Star-Spangled Banner https://amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/pdf/ssb_lyrics.pdf
5. https://www.npr.org/2017/07/04/518876922/the-star-spangled-banner-verse-youve-probably-never-heard
6. Cause of the Civil War https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/american-civil-war-history
7. Lincoln Douglas Debates https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/lincoln-douglas-debates
8. Lincoln’s evolving thoughts on Black people https://www.history.com/news/5-things-you-may-not-know-about-lincoln-slavery-and-emancipation
9. Enslaved people started Memorial Day https://time.com/5836444/black-memorial-day/
10. Steven Blight’s History of the Earliest Memorial Day in Charleston https://www.history.com/news/memorial-day-civil-war-slavery-charleston
11. I Have a Dream full speech https://youtu.be/smEqnnklfYs
12. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1967 NBC interview. At the 21:25 mark, MLK reflects on “the dream” and how it has in many ways “become a nightmare…” https://youtu.be/2xsbt3a7K-8

***Epilogue***

Senate Republicans block voting rights reform bill in the midst of voting for the Juneteenth holiday. This behavior seems inconsistent if Senate Republicans are truly interested in the cause of justice. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senate-republicans-block-voting-rights-reform-bill-unified/story?id=78427255

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#25 Do parents parent differently across races? Are there considerations for Black parents that other parents don't have? What's with whuppins? The Souljah's discuss parenting styles, differences in parenting between races, and cross-racial adoption. Plus, Andres can't seem to stop laughing!

*** Correction *** In the episode, Andres mentioned John Legend was the first African American to get EGOT status. That was incorrect. He is the first African American male to get the honors. Whoopi Goldberg was the first African American to win all four awards. She won two of those awards in the same year.

Helpful Links

1. Parenting styles Pew Research https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2015/12/17/3-parenting-approaches-and-concerns/
2. Racial Differences and academic achievement https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3930341/
3. Racial Differences in Parenting Styles https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4362953/ and https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=bgsu1320162825&disposition=inline
4. Influence off Race on Parent Judgements https://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/focus/pdfs/foc242e.pdf
5. Racial and Ethnic Differences in Parenting Stress https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10826-013-9833-z
6. Parenting differences across cultures https://theconversation.com/parenting-practices-around-the-world-are-diverse-and-not-all-about-attachment-111281
7. Corporal Punishment https://www.apa.org/pi/families/resources/newsletter/2017/04/racial-trauma
8. https://www.verywellfamily.com/types-of-parenting-styles-1
9. Parenting Styles, Economics, and Extracurricular activities https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0192513X10386305095045
10. Rita Moreno - In Praise Of the Only Living EGOT Who's Won All 4 Awards as a Performer [Billboard]
11. MacKenzie Thomas album https://open.spotify.com/album/7v6ZSabXARDkpTRmNRzFeR?si=86XtP00KS6GPU97_iarSJA

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#24 This is perhaps our most important and impactful episode to date. One of the most important components of Black love is taking care of your mind. The Souljah's discuss mental health and trauma with therapist and trauma specialist, David Strother, LSCSW, LCSW. Andres bravely and candidly discusses his experience with fighting depression.

*This episode contains some explicit content and profanity. 

Helpful Links

1. NAMI on Black /African American Mental Health
2. NAMI on Hispanic/Latinx Mental Health
3. https://www.thevaliantmind.org/
4. David Strother's Valiant Therapeutic Services Facebook Page
5. Afrobeats playlist
6. Aux God the game
7. The Naked Marriage podcast 
8. New Girl - 3 Seconds From Every Episode [YouTube]
9. Advocate for Change [NAMI]

*NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.

The NAMI HelpLine can be reached Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.–8 p.m., ET.

1-800-950-NAMI (6264) or [email protected]

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#23 It's here! The Souljah's discuss Black romantic love and whether people involved interracially can call their relationship "Black love"

Helpful Links

1. Black Love
2. Loving Day
3. Black Love Day
4. Why are all the Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria
5. The Rachel Divide Documentary on Netflix 
6. Asexuality 
7. Being Asexual UCLA Press Release  
8. Being Asexual GLAAD

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