UnHidden Voices

In this conversation, Abiola discusses the importance of discomfort in racial justice work, the connection between politics and design, and what she calls white comfort. I promise you will learn a lot. Subscribe to our podcast. Listen, Learn, and Amplify with Us!

Join the conversation as Dr. José Ramón Lizárraga explains what pride means for him and celebrates their Webby win.

This is the final episode of Season 1. We celebrate our one-year anniversary in conversation with Ethnic Studies teacher Dominique Williams. She discusses what she learned and how she has grown in the past year as we mark the anniversary of George Floyd's assassination. Like this episode. Subscribe to the podcast. Listen, Learn, and Amplify with us.

Join our conversation with activist and scholar Natalee Kehaulani Bauer as she describes resistance work in solidarity. Subscribe to our podcast. Like this episode. Listen, learn, and amplify with us.

Please hit the subscribe button and click the bell for notifications. Listen, Learn, and amplify with us. Use this link to see the work that Amber and other fellows created during the Centering Black Women Teachers Fellowship. https://csus.instructure.com/courses/78367

In this episode, Husain talks about the importance of strength, determination, and family. Listen, learn, and amplify with us. 

Dr. Norris met Nurse Faye when she got her first dose of the COVID Vaccine 💉 Don’t miss our conversation about the fear of it in the Black community. She gives vital info about what to do before, during, and after you’re vaccinated. Subscribe to this podcast. Listen, Learn, and Amplify this episode. 

Greetings (Un)Hidden Voices Family, Join the conversation with our second guest in the “Look To The Artist” series, educator and children’s book author JaNay Brown-Wood, Ph.D.

Like and Subscribe to our podcast here and on YouTube to learn more about JaNay and her work with creating books that represent children who look like her. Follow us @(Un)Hidden Voices on FB and IG. Transcript of the episode can be found here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E3elUgSgqVP95VA57MkU3CYeYsFxxtI6CyXAdGt9BqI/edit?usp=sharing

Happy Black History Month (Un)Hidden Voices Family! We are officially launching our “Look to the Artists” series. Our first guest is educator, writer, and coach Raina León! Join our YouTube watch party to hear some of Raina’s poetry and learn more about the series. https://youtube.com/channel/UC3jDENFw6MFiiwcoia3luEA or listen on Anchor, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.

This episode is a real joy. I speak to my niece, Tanishia "Pooh" Littlejohn about the impact of COVID 19 on her family. She talks about what it is like to homeschool her son during the pandemic. Listen, Learn, and Amplify with us! 

This episode is dedicated to our paternal grandparents Johnny and Ida Mae White, their eldest son Jimmy (Vicki's father) and Aunt Gene (Vicki's mother), and their youngest son, Musa (my Dad) and Brenda (my mom). Because of them, we are. Vicki and I discuss difficult topics including suicide and mental illness. I am grateful to her for sharing her stories and experiences with us. If you or someone you love is suicidal, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 800-273-8255. If you are in need of resources for Mental Illness, contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Call the NAMI Helpline at 800-950-6264. I promise you will learn from this conversation. Please watch and share it. Subscribe to our podcast. Continue to listen, learn, and amplify with us.

This episode is exciting because it is an opportunity to listen to my cousin Dina and her youngest daughter Kiara speak about racism in the South.  Dina has two daughters, London and Kiara. Dina and Kiara sat down with me to discuss the experiences they have living, working, and going to school in North Carolina. They candidly about their experiences with racism. Kiara talks about being in school and learning about Black history from teachers who do not share her culture and negative interaction with the police. In the end, they both speak to the inspiration they receive from our family to follow their dreams and not give up. If you enjoy the episode, please subscribe and tell a friend about our podcast. Listen, Learn, and Amplify with us!

In this special two-part episode, my friends and colleagues from Sacramento State University's Teaching Credential program,  Drs. Margarita Berta Avila, Jose Cintron, Mimi Coughlin, Dale Allender, and I draw on ancestors like James Baldwin to show us the importance of rage as an emotion for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC). We discuss the impact of the double pandemics of COVID 19 and Antblackness on our families, lives, and work. We reclaim our rage because decidedly, we are outraged by the pandemics and the disastrous response in the United States. Wondering what your role is when it comes to addressing the double pandemics? Listen to us push each other to deepen our understanding of and define for ourselves and each other what it means to be allies, accomplices, and co-conspirators. The transcript can be found here https://docs.google.com/document/d/12.

This episode features my cousin Sharn Collins who is the youngest cousin in my Mom's generation. Even though he is from Mom's generation, we claim him in mine. Sharn and I differ in our understanding of police brutality and violence. He urges Black people to not defy the police because they see themselves as authority figures. He also points out that a lot of what he has learned in life is based upon people providing examples of how not to behave. Unlike Sharn, I think that police violence is a result of institutional racism. Sharn and my disagreement is a perfect example of how to disagree without being disagreeable because we do it with love and laughter. We model for you and hopefully, provide a concrete example of how to listen and better understand different perspectives. Listen to this conversation in its entirety. I promise you will learn a lot and amplify it with us!

This episode features Aneesah Abdel-Qawi, a future chef, and strong young Black woman. She describes her experiences with colorism and discrimination from Black people and other people of color. She also discusses the importance of being a voice in the movement for Black lives and how each of us has a role to play in fighting racism and discrimination. If you enjoy the episode please leave a comment, we definitely read the comments.  And subscribe to Unhidden Voices. Also, visit our website UnhiddenVoices.org to learn more about our work building empathy and disrupting the invisibility of Black girls, students, and families.

Episode 7 Transcript Link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17tnH-0hVibCZM6PMbl06t9eN-P8VWqK_udKAjOqD8Pw/edit?usp=sharing

Welcome to (Un)Hidden voices an opportunity for you to take the time to listen, to learn, and to experience the stories.  We need to listen to people's experiences so that we can learn from them. The power lies in each and every story. 

Welcome to UnHidden Voices I am your Host Dr. Aaminah Norris. This is more than just a podcast, It’s a movement to Amplify Black Voices.  Every Monday we will hear from Black folks what it means to be Black in America. We will listen to and learn from Black people starting with members of my family how to resist, persist, overcome, and survive. UnHidden Voices Fight the Silence!

On June 12, 2020, Rayshard Brooks was shot in the back in front of Wendy’s in Atlanta, GA the cradle of the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. Martlin Luther King jr was born there and Rayshard Brooks was murdered there by Atlanta police. Setting buildings on fire is a “fight” response to the complex trauma experienced because of state-sanctioned murder. To help us recognize the manifestations of complex trauma that we are seeing in Black communities, I turn to my friend, my sister, Babalwa Kwanele, MS, LMFT. Recently, I sat down with Kwanele. She explains how complex trauma impacts the mind and the body. She also provides us with concrete advice for ways to address the trauma that is terrorizing us every day.