Sup Cousin!

It's Juneteenth. Let's gather some inspiration from those who walked before us.

Show Notes:

Frederick Douglas “What is the 4th of July to a slave” read by James Earl Jones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZDcB1NhMfo

Fredrick Douglas “A slave becomes a man” https://youtu.be/U-RmmTYxiGc?si=BlkPDACiLDkJqOQ5

Malcolm X “The Ballot or the Bullet” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ymPLDO0pOA

Who was Malcom X https://youtu.be/ZaVIucxNeTY?si=y9y9eI1Sw5evmoVt

The Lost tapes: Malcolm X https://youtu.be/k7MP_h3eQ1o?si=wqrydi9C8EmcaOBi

COUSIN!

Ro gets in a tussle with the reverend and his wife.

Show Notes:

Pt 1: Monitoring the Devil https://youtu.be/jez1hN1y82c?si=amn-wuhCPhdQqyAN

Other Tale Originals full playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe_q7nNxJyzeDBZ0jpIhuBtewPIa-S0z5&si=eiC5VY8BVr_04UjG

Sources:

American Negro Folktales by Richard M. Dorson

PBS World of Stories: Boo Hag preformed by Donna Washington. https://mpt.pbslearningmedia.org/reso...

CoCo talks about Boo Hags https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KUnL4rAGDQ&t=211s

Musical references

Bruno Mars, Why you wanna fight: https://youtu.be/32yqPoXfaU4?si=wTWTQ7ezmjztgqtZ

Avi Kaplan, Move Our Souls : https://youtu.be/_wF6xP1Z0YQ?si=D6NXpDrqPjbpzSjY

Pharell, Happy: https://youtu.be/ZbZSe6N_BXs?si=SSl8NVWwkrEQEy4-

Stevie Nicks, Edge of Seventeen: https://youtu.be/UmPgMc3R8zg?si=GKk4FX1ILdw5DBf4

Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child https://youtu.be/qFfnlYbFEiE?si=1iCBPtGiATe22s4F

Cousin...

it's time to sit and think.

Show Notes:

What is meditation: A deeper dive

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4171985/

https://newedenministry.com/2020/05/24/contemplative-meditation/

https://www.calm.com/blog/mantra-meditation

Focused Attention Meditation

CoCo’s Ancestral Garden: https://youtu.be/9wNmIJBIIz8?si=nj-pfw0QhWGeh4tb

Body Scan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH-OQn5Ui8g

Contemplative Meditation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9y4X7Sx_ik&t=2s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYdHKZr2WVI

mantra/Affirmation meditation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li8BIhsAgfU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH11undyI2o&list=RDvH11undyI2o&start_radio=1

cuzin!

I'm not your mentor. I'm just your cousin.

Cuz,

Big sis is here to help us navigate questions around Mind & Spirit connection.

Show notes:

Big Sis tells you about Her Spiritual Life

https://youtu.be/9LPOBEzC32s?si=GruIcts4US-nAzUb

More Internet Witches got Questions

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe_q7nNxJyze7dMtGrceqhMdyXy-84e8k

Wendy Mata:

https://www.llewellyn.com/author.php?author_id=7301&srsltid=AfmBOopcmM6HVM0gdtyxJnoirm4xT-xC1dN-f0r3PMfR5N8Pu3AYfQW8

Urns hold spirits she says:

https://www.tiktok.com/@indrasbotanica/video/7369076618909797678?q=spirit%20attached%20to%20ashes&t=1778374990026

“You never leave” from Religion for Breakfast (what your brain goes through when you leave a religion)

https://youtu.be/cmXiATStkCo?si=i_nhywIR4-MGB7d4

Cuzn!!!!

We have choices to make.

Show Notes:

All stories sourced from the book “ The annotated african american tales” edited by henry louis gates jr and maria tatar.

Story 1: “A vital decision” Originally collected by Leo Frobenius in his work “ Atlantis: volksmarchen und volksdichtungen Afrikas.”

Story 2: “The four Fools” adapted from John H. Weeks Congo Life and Folklore.

Story 3: “Trackwell, Divewell, and Breavewell.” by Elsie Clews Parsons in Folklore of the sea islands, south carolina.

Cuz,

All your dreams can come true if you ask the man at the crossroad. Just know that the price may be more than you are willing to part with.

Leave me an email at : [email protected]

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Show notes:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Johnson-American-musician

https://www.robertjohnsonbluesfoundation.org/biography/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd60nI4sa9A&list=RDYd60nI4sa9A&start_radio=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEht5PbNWN4&list=RDoEht5PbNWN4&start_radio=1

Cuz,

Sometimes your call for spiritual life is thunderous. Sometimes the lightening bolt misses. Most of the time... it creeps up on you like a rolling spring shower.

Show notes:

Clifton H. Johnson’s collection of ex-slave narratives called “God Struck Me Dead”

https://www.amazon.com/God-Struck-Me-Dead-Ex-Slaves/dp/1610970470

Langston Hughes “The Big Sea”

https://www.amazon.com/Big-Sea-Autobiography-American-Century/dp/0809015498

Cuz,

My crash out was heavy this week. So we gonna talk about Phillis Wheatly's unwoke poetry from her youth.

The Poetry Foundation:https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley

Smithsonian Natural Portrait Gallery: https://npg.si.edu/blog/phillis-wheatley-her-life-poetry-and-legacy

poems on Various Subjects Religions and moral : https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org/post/a-selection-of-poems-by-phillis-wheatley-peters

Boston public Library

Phillis Wheatley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKvyjbIhnZ4

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/phillis-wheatley

Cuz,

Competition and Vengeance could lead you to hurting a Heffa.

Stories from Mules and Men and Hoodoo In America by Zora Neale Hurston