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Grief is in the kitchen

by Scalawag Editors December 26, 2024December 23, 2024

Grief comes to live with us all eventually, and she needs no invitation. In this episode of Great Grief, Nnenna Freelon appreciates the quiet moments shared with her late father and wonders aloud how to curate her space for the holidays now that grief has made a home in her home.

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Grief doesn't celebrate the holidays

by Scalawag Editors December 23, 2024December 23, 2024
Holiday Season—Episode 4 of Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon, Season 2: Seasons of Change. Listen and read along with the podcast transcript. When Christmas, Hanukkah, Ramadan, Kwanza and family gatherings of all kinds—the musical, cultural, food traditions—collide against a backdrop of losses, challenges, and major life shifts, the holidays can be a confusing time to welcome grief back home.
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Holiday Season

by Nnenna Freelon December 14, 2023December 14, 2023
In this episode of Great Grief, Nnenna Freelon pleads with the moon, the sun, and the leaves about how to get in touch with her beloved Phil again. If grief isn’t linear, then maybe sorrow is more than a season—perhaps it’s a portal to the unknown.
Posted inARTS & SOUL

The World Since You Left

by Nnenna Freelon December 12, 2023December 14, 2023
The World Since You Left—Episode 3 of Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon, Season 2: Seasons of Change. Listen and read along with the podcast transcript.
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Ashes, Ashes

by Nnenna Freelon December 7, 2023December 14, 2023
The changing seasons are an apt metaphor to talk about the shedding, withering, and falling away that accompanies the most painful parts of grief. Nnenna Freelon takes us on a walk through the woods to contemplate autumn and the possibility of renewal.
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Falling

by Nnenna Freelon November 28, 2023December 14, 2023
A wife for nearly 40 years, Nnenna Freelon now wonders what to make of the term widow when she still feels the significance of her marriage well after her husband's death in Black Widow, the final installment in the season of Great Grief, Wailing Women.
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Black Widow

by Nnenna Freelon November 21, 2023November 28, 2023
Hair holds our history, personality, identity—and our grief. In episode 3 of Great Grief, Nnenna Freelon visits her mother’s beauty salon, where generations of Black women have gathered to discuss their hairstory—the grief over it, and the grief under it.
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Hairstory

by Nnenna Freelon November 21, 2023November 28, 2023
No woman makes it through life without a sister. Through faith, family, and struggle, we inhabit a deep solidarity that allows us to hold one another close, even at the very end. In episode 2 of Great Grief, Nnenna Freelon walks us through her journey of losing her sister, Debbie. Listen and read along with the podcast transcript.
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Sister Sister

by Nnenna Freelon September 27, 2023November 13, 2023
Photographer Justin Hardiman, a collaborator with Jasmine Williams and Sarah Jené’s 'How We Get Over: We Grow On' project at the Mississippi Museum of Art, shares stunning portraits and excerpts from his audio-visual project, 'The Color of Grief.'
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The Color of Grief

by Justin Hardiman September 22, 2023September 25, 2023
When Grief Speaks—Episode 1 of Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon, Season 1: Wailing Women. Grief is a woman with plenty to say. In the first episode of Great Grief, Nnenna Freelon asks us to consider what happens if we stop running from our grief, sit down, and listen to her for a change. Listen, subscribe, and read along with the podcast transcript.
Posted inARTS & SOUL

When Grief Speaks

by Nnenna Freelon September 13, 2023September 29, 2023
Solitary confinement in maximum security prison
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Nightmares & Daydreams: Welcome to maximum security

by Zakaria Amara June 20, 2023September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Making State Enemies

by Julian Rose May 2, 2023May 2, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

How we save ourselves: Interventions beyond the ballot box

by Anoa Changa October 11, 2022December 4, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

How we build political power: Lessons from Texas and Florida organizers

by Anoa Changa October 11, 2022December 4, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

How we fight gerrymandering in the South

by Anoa Changa October 11, 2022December 4, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

How we organize around elections: Lessons from Mississippi organizers

by Anoa Changa October 11, 2022December 4, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

The abolitionist podcast that reveals how little you know about prison

by Alysia Nicole Harris June 23, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Without paid leave, the South's COVID school policies cause a terrible trickle down for families

by Rainesford Stauffer November 18, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

The Black opera that stunned America's most segregated stage

by Frances Madeson November 11, 2021November 11, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Meet the 5 women uprooting white beauty standards and white supremacy in West Virginia

by Crystal Good May 11, 2021May 12, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

'Visionary and Pragmatic'—A Black Feminist Guide to Electoral Politics

by Danielle Purifoy October 6, 2020October 6, 2021
Posted inARTS & SOUL

If your name ever falls on a prison roster: What I know now.

by EDUARDO MARTINEZ August 19, 2020November 21, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Field Notes from the Inside: Women in Florida prisons share glimpses of COVID-19 lockdowns

by MARINA BUENO & BOUDICCA August 18, 2020November 21, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

12 Haikus on gentrification: Bull City edition

by Alysia Nicole Harris February 19, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Listen: Going home for my small town's first LGBTQ pride

by Monique LaBorde July 1, 2019October 1, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Listen: a drug users' union is reimagining public health in the South

by Kat Bawden May 17, 2016September 16, 2020

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