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Play Cousins: How Black Kinship Is Different
Why does everybody in the Black community have a play cousin? In this episode of Sankofa Chronicles: A Black History Podcast, Mr. Black History traces the blueprint of Black kinship from West African family systems (Yoruba, Akan, Igbo) through slavery to the chosen families we built in America. Discover how othermothers, church family, and fictive kin became survival technology when the system tried to break the Black family apart, and why the Moynihan Report got the story completely backwards. "Imagine surviving the storm and then being blamed for the umbrella." Featuring the scholarship of…
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