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Dear Mama,

What do Telvin Osborne, Black marriage, generational wealth, Altadena, data as currency, the TV show Paradise and white women in Idaho have in common?  We cover them all in this episode.  Yup it’s hot topics and we got hot takes well, not hot takes.  We got Black mama takes on all the above.

In this episode we talk:

• How Telvin Osborne is relevant to Black women resting
• The real problem when it comes to  marriage & Black folx
•  Why Paradise gets kudos & white women in Idaho don’t

PLUS – we talk all things Black Maternal Health,  Thea taking on individual clients and I share a big praise report regarding my nonprofit Creators Well  during our Church announcements, praise reports and prayer list requests segment.  In our Black Mama Say segment for this episode, where we put our own twist on sayings from Black mamas and the saying we’re twisting this episode is is “Let me put it to you like this.”

SYLLABUS

Church Announcements:

• Responsive Reading –  Black Mama Magic Card Deck 
  • Black Mama Magic Card: Card #25  “Motherhood Is Not the Graveyard of Dreams”
• Crystal
  • Community Doula Week 
  • Black Maternal Health Week 
  • Creators Well
    • Creator Well Donation Link 
• Thea
  • Thea Monyee’s Prayer Books
  • Thea Monyee’s Patreon
  • Sign up for individual joy sessions with Thea

Mac & Cheese:

It’s hot topics an Black mama takes!

Here’s what we’re getting into:

• Telvin Osborne Once Said He’d Rather Sleep With a Dog Than a Black Woman—Now He’s Dead, and Social Media Has Thoughts
• Aha Moments & Group Chats: Dem Black Mamas Gentle Reader Newsletter 2/27/25
• Getting Married “For The Culture”: The Role of Black Marriage in Black Wealth
• How Wall Street Funded Slavery
• The hidden links between slavery and Wall Street
• Black History For Real: I Get Money|Black Wallstreet
• Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre
• Helena Andrews interview with Sterling K. Brown
• TikTok about Pressley from Paradise’s hair and room
• Idaho town hall meeting turns chaotic after woman is forcibly removed for shouting at speakers

Episodes mentions/relevant to this episode: 

• DBM Ep 61 Joy and Black Motherhood
• DBM Ep 54: Birth Justice, Liberation & the Power of Black Midwives w/ Jamarah Amani & K.Sanderson

Full Episode Transcript

Black Mama Say: Let me put it to you like this.

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