Nurah Speaks

This week’s Nurah Speaks guest is Sister Colette Muhammad of ‘Canning with Colette.’ Sister Colette is a registered member of the Nation of Islam and learned the proper canning of foods in the Sisters’ class and now she provides these classes to others.

In this episode, Sister Colette shares why canning is an important food preservation technique that benefits both our physical and financial health. Her mission is to take away the stigma, anxiety and fears associated with canning in the black and brown community specifically. She wants others to embrace this skill not only as a necessity as it relates to the time and what must be done, but also as a joyous experience of self accomplishment in doing for self.

This was an informative conversation especially in light of the recent pandemic and economic hardship of many across this nation.

Be sure to follow Sister Colette on Facebook SisterColette Muhammad and Instagram @SisterColette and visit her website KitchenSplendor.co where you can register for her canning classes and purchase her ebook.

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Although racism is a terrible and cruel thing, it is not the most pressing of our present challenges. Our greatest and gravest issues since Emancipation and Jim Crow have been a destructive and self deprecating mindset that inhibits our desire to meets the needs of our people.

Our tee-shirts and caps claim “Black and Proud,” however a great measure of our political and social activism does not demonstrate pride and confidence in our own abilities which makes the sting of racism that more painful. 

Racism would be much less a factor in our lives if we capitalized on our skills and know-how and the trillions of dollars passing through our hands annually.

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I am joined this week by Sister Aquila Ali.  Aquila is a member of the Coalition for Remembrance of Elijah Muhammad (CROE) and is an integral part of their media production team.  Unfortunately for black women in media, the bar has been set very low in terms of image and content.  However Aquila continues to endure as an example of character and integrity

In this conversation, Aquila chronicles her journey in becoming a member of CROE and a student of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, her role within the media production team and she shares what she believes black women must understand about the root of our confidence.

You are going to enjoy this conversation and it will surely enlighten listeners to the unexplored prominence that women have in the Nation of Islam.

To learn more about CROE and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad visit CROE.org.  Make sure you watch and subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC--UCt5LqFF3IW5fLn5lH2g and follow on facebook @CROETV.   Email your inquiries to [email protected]

You can view CROETV streaming live every Wednesday at 6pm(cst) and every Sunday 2pm(cst).

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On this MLK Day of Service be reminded of the fullness of Dr. King’s movement.  We cannot let him be another figure we memorialize in distortion.  He was more than his passive resistance.  He was a fierce opponent of injustice, standing in full defiance to racism, poverty and unjust war.

On this 26th MLK Day of Service, 53 years after his tragic assassination, be reminded that the justice he sought then, we still seek today.  The work must continue and it must continue with us.

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In an era popular with youth task forces and social programs serving ‘at risk’ youth, we must ask what we can do to head off delinquent behaviors in our young people.

In this episode, I suggest that ‘Family Is The Best Social Program’ and I have research that I share to support this assertion.  The research indicates that, “Children born to unmarried mothers generally receive lower human capital investments because the contractual partnership between the parents is less stable, and sometimes nonexistent (**Becker, 1981).”

In other words, we increase the likelihood of unfavorable outcomes for our children when we do not anchor them in families to provide them the needed moral, social and economic supports.  Frankly, we cannot reasonably expect to make a healthy community when a large segment of our children are conceived by people who dislike their child's other parent or with whom they do not want to create a family.

Families are the beginning of life lessons that cultivate us to interact within our broader community and nation. So if we are diminishing the value of family, we diminish the possibility for our community.

And as the Black community is diminishing the value of traditional family, our youth are still seeking the natural structure and balance that a family provides.  Therefore, some youth are finding their family in gangs.  Some are finding their family in pimps and traffickers.  Some are finding their family in drugs. And some are finding their family in prison.

We just cannot get around basic needs.  Children need to know that they belong.  Children need to know that they are valued.  We cannot continue ignoring their inherent needs and wonder why youth are delinquent after we’ve deprived them of a solid foundation.

We do not need another government funded program as much as we need strong families.

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References:

**https://phys.org/news/2010-07-crime-linked-out-of-wedlock-births.html

**https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8031/1/MPRA_paper_8031.pdf

In this week’s episode we hear from Dr. Sandra West.  Dr. West is an optometrist having over 27 years of practice. She also happens to be my own personal physician.

I met Dr. West several years ago when I scheduled a routine vision exam and to my surprise and pure delight the doctor was a Black woman.  Interestingly enough, when I attended a business conference in New Orleans several months later, we found ourselves meeting again as attendees of the same conference.

I invited Dr. West to the show not because she is my personal physician but because of what I knew she could offer Nurah Speaks listeners.  Not only does Dr. West explain when we should begin vision checks, but also what our doctors are checking for and some of the latest technology aiding optometrists today.  Additionally she shares insights into her own childhood, how she was raised by dynamic parents and what parents can do today to prepare children for future success.  

Dr. West is an advocate for STEM and vocational training and she is a motivational speaker.  This was an informative and inspiring conversation for me and I hope it will be for you too,

Follow Dr. West on Instagram @sandrawest_speaks. You can email her at [email protected].

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Some may wonder why I close each show with the words ‘Stay in peace!’   As peace is literally my religion and my way of life, it is also my message. And in such a trying time as this-it is more important than ever that we focus on efforts to increase or maintain our peace by focusing on self care.

So - as we close out 2020 with Episode 146, I share ways in which we can attend to our own self care needs.

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When the world settles into its new normal, Nurah Speaks will still be here!   Therefore, I am actively preparing for the 2021 season of the podcast.    I have several goals for the upcoming year including:  featuring 13 insightful guests, refining the podcast, increasing listener engagement, and more.

If you have ideas, show topics, or guests you'd like featured, please feel free to email me [email protected].   If you have questions, submit your listener questions to [email protected].  

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We cannot be on the fence forever being neither this nor that, never having made a commitment or obligating ourselves to one direction or another. 

Indecisiveness is obstructive to our personal development. It is time now to make a choice.

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Real ‘Juvenile Justice’ is having a culture that promotes stability and wellness for our most vulnerable population, our children.  The injustice is that the modern norms of our culture promote dysfunction that we expect social workers, clinicians, judges and juvenile justice staff to repair.

Studies show that most children within the juvenile justice systems have experienced adversity in their childhood as evidenced by ACEs (Adverse Childhood experiences) surveys. Adverse Childhood experiences are preventable. But unless we promote stability and safety to the families in our communities we will keep relinquishing our children to the care of the state to fix what could have been prevented by advocating for strong families.

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