Breathing While Black: Recent Episodes
Leona Dunn
A cultural podcast that reports on trends and current African American (Black) news nationwide. We will be inhaling information while exhaling stress! But only for a few minutes a day with your host Leona Dunn.
Out with the old, In with the new. New year. New Podcast Show coming soon. I really do thank you for listening ❤️
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New Format. Same Meaning. Let’s remember, learn, release and exhale. [Press Release] https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/covid-19/payment-pause-zero-interest
New weight loss goal - fit last years summer clothes. We are eating on a schedule and increasing activity! Join me 😩 or don’t
We place so many unofficial meanings to literal events and dates. The human condition is part reality and part make believe. Happy Memorial Day
Look listeners…. I wrote this episode on Thursday and it took all of me to wake up early Sunday and post it before it became yet another forgotten episode that I threw away cause I took to long to post and now all the news is old. The guy in the first stories name is Paul Whelan… I have no idea why I kept calling him Wheeler. Pray for me. I hope you enjoy this episode. Links to editorials are below! NPR: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/13/1142692108/megan-thee-stallion-takes-the-stand-in-tory-lanez-trial-shares-suicidal-thoughts. // NPR Summary: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/16/1143656758/the-tory-lanez-trial-sparks-a-debate-about-the-treatment-of-women-in-hip-hop . Tyler Perry Statement: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmKz8jEqCcE/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Warnock won. The end of the year recaps are coming out. Keke Palmer is pregnant and Britney Grindr is coming home. Let’s watch out for these increased domestic terrorist attacks and breathe this thing out.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Eye - Ran. Guilty Pleas. Paralyzed justice. Justices hear a very important immigration case. Votes are racking up in GA. VA congressman loses to Colon cancer #another one. Let’s breathe.
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Lots of Shootings by associates. ShanQuilla Robinson update. Student Loans and Black Princess’s. Let’s start inhaling….
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Let’s breathe for the U of V victims of a field trip gone wrong. We got our third ever black governor, but we could still use plenty of future candidates of color to fill up these new classes in congress. Beyoncé’s album broke all through the soul of the Grammy nominations. Let’s breathe and get these Frontier refunds…Press Release- https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/more-600-million-refunds-returned-airline-passengers-under-dot-rules-backed-new . Grammy Nominees- https://www.grammy.com/news/2023-grammy-nominations-complete-winners-nominees-list
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🗳 Vote 🗳 https://www.vote.org
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Thursday updates. Wendy’s for vets. Black Twitter ain’t worried about universal Twitter corporate complications, but the Powerball is up and the plane in Tanzania came down. Tom Brady is still winning, not like Sharon Lokedi in her debut marathon though…. Let’s just push play already!
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Ye, Irving, Stephen, Zaya, Griner, Oprah, Sheryl Lee Ralph. Oh and Vote! Definitely go and do that y’all! Press Release: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-wait-is-over-the-womens-sports-network-has-arrived-301666330.html .
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Takeoff has left us (or was sadly taken). Paul Pelosi’s head hurts is an understatement and Russia is back at it again recruiting for its ‘military exercise’. Let’s hope Taylor Swift’s announcement gives Beyoncé a nudge to drop these tour dates. Welcome to the News . Season 🗞🗞🗞🗞🗞 PR: https://www.fda.gov/food/cfsan-constituent-updates/fda-proposes-increase-color-certification-fees
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New Name. Same daily news with a little more releasing this season!
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BLM Officer shooting/trial updates. Tokyo Olympics start with some blacknese magic. NAACP tries to combat vaccination misinformation and why voting rights will be the big topic this fall.
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Happy Juneteenth 🌱
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Chauvins appeal, McMichael squeals, and black teachers coming through to naturally teach the youth what white governors are trying to ban.
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Y’all gone make me lose my mind! Police and Government Officials are being held accountable. Welcome to Spring 2021.
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Women are dying (and family members of women). The violence has to stop. Plus Queen B -making history in the month about everything female ☘️.
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NFL, LAPD, BLM & FAMU. Let’s get it.
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Snippets.
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2021! Insurrection. Inauguration. Insurrection. Matt James 😍. Insurrection. Blue Senate. Justice in Policing Act? 👌🏾
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Welcome 2021
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The Platinum Plan. The diversity of the Black Ballot. More Police Shootings 🙃. Beyoncé is out like her Drip 2 collection.Netflix and Jesus!
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An attempt at answering some voting procedural questions.
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Travis got McDonalds having meat shortages, Breonna Taylor’s family got 12 million but the nation wants to know if she’ll get justice, Peyton Manning making it rain for HBCU scholars, and a Tulsa survivor wants reparations.
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August ReCap
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Verzuz. Operation Legend. Floyd, Taylor, Kanye, Megan and KFC! What’s going on at ABC? Whoopi will tell us the new move.
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Repetitions in North Carolina. Megan, Jada, and Jen Reid? All injustice is injustice okay Nick Cannon. Forget you Blake Neff!
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Kanye Candidacy. Kaepernick Comeback. Covid-Air.
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Mississippi’s New Flag, Man Down (Confederate Statues) Baseball starts w/o Ian Desmond! Beyoncé strikes gold yet again.
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Hugely reminds us of pandemic. Should statues be in museums or in streets-both sides agree they are needed to remind us of our history. What’s Farrakhan about to say? MLK save us please!
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New Season. Small Format Change. Still Black News 🗞🗞
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It’s Wednesday still in the Midwest 🤷🏾♀️. Protest Commentary- Smh at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Candace Owens, Discussing the Justice in Policing Act, and mentioning some new facts on Floyd and Arbery’s case. Yes it’s a long episode.
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Floyd Update. Murder 🐝. Toni Morrison. Black Lives Matter, They always will.
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Beyoncé! Obama. Malcom X. Congrats Class of 2020 🎈
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Ahmaud’s Birthday. Ida B Wells Award 87 years later but still on time. And some of Clinton’s Smith’s poetry! Tune in for a few minutes of black news where we inhale information and exhale stress...
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Medical Bias. Racism. Health Disparities. Racism. And Accountability for our eating habits. Today, we talk about COVID-19 and Africa. 🗞 Tune In!
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Census. Elections. Unemployment. Sex Work. Federal Loans. Jesus. Death...... Tune In 🦠
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Coronavirus isn’t the only dramatic news coverage we’ve had this year. Re-live 2020’s disasters so far with updates on WW3, Impeachment Revenge, Kobe and Megxit.
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What is the Corona Virus? Can Black people get it? Things to watch while you quarantine... and more 🤟🏾 <>
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South Carolina. Corona. Proud Family. New Anti-Lynch Legislation. Neo-Confederates. Chicken Donut Sandwiches and Ida B Wells Quotes! Tune In
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Iowa Caucus. Corona Update. Black Teenage Shine. Jokers Bafta Speech. Lil Wayne and Rosa Parks. Tune In!
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Queen-B sits. Tuskegee flips. Chicken Wars begin while Mr. Peanuts life ends. Tune in!
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Jay Z on the Super Bowl. Trumps ‘Africa- Ban’. Deandre’s Dreads get shown some ‘Hair Love’. The crews & union beef may be off, plus we sprinkled in some Tubman for the soul. Tune in!
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Happy Black History Month
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Black vote. Iran update. Google Commercial Tribute. Her & Missy Elliot collaboration. Megan Trainer & Nicki Collab. Bad Boys 4. Jaden & Tyler ? Ciara is working on child #3. Chicago’s black book & Black History Month is that you 👀!
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A Special Episode Commemorating the First Black Icon of 2020 that stopped breathing... Kobe Bryant (1978-2020).
Coco. Corona.Counting. Court Orders and Cannes Film. Tune in to hear all of this alliteration!
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MLK Day. Ivy Park Sold Out. 17 year old black educational magic. Nashville’s Student Poverty, Super Bowl winners are named and Instagram is coming for photoshopped images. Tune in
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Black Politics are Poppin. St. Louis might end up going through a racial reform. Cosby’s Case isn’t over. Issa Rae is making awkward love the new relationship goals. Tune in!
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A.K.A. Day! Is Kim Gardner being legally blocked from ending racism? Kamala Harris for VP.... and Will Smith gives us butterflies. Tune in for your update!
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DST Founders Day! An Un-Ethnic Award Season. Cardi B for Congress? A Beauty store lock in, Royal Meeting, and History Making Magazine! Tune in.
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T.S.U News. Texas Southern President and Tennessee State Alumni both making headlines. Plus Zeta Phi Beta is claiming the whole week! Tune in for your two minutes. Plus Season two is coming soon 🎙
MLK Week in Atlanta. NAACP Image Award Nominations are out. Boosie learns how to shimmy. Tune in for your two minutes.
Phi Beta Pants. Blue Law Enforcement. Black Princess making headlines again. Tune in for your two minutes 🎙.
Iran retaliated. Tyler Perry may have worked too hard last year and Lynn Richardson gives some money tips! Tune in for your two minutes.🎙
Will A.M.E follow U.M.C? Pollen in Texas and HBCU Film collaborations! Tune in for your two minutes!
Black News Channel Delay. Kappa’s defend their hand sign. Chicago’s getting less violent and a quick Iran update! Tune in for your two minutes 🗞 and breathe.
Sunday is a Day of Rest.
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Julian Castro is out. Deval Patrick is forgotten. Dababy is in Da-jail. And Rihanna is releasing more Fenty not R9. Tune in for your two minute update!
U.S. is fighting (or blowing up terrorist) in Iran. New York is preparing to fight domestic and now foreign terror. NFL Coaches of color are fighting purge season. Knuck if you buck, America.
Identity Politics. R-Kelly (Part 2) and news about Megan the Stallion. Tune in and stay informed.
Laws are enforced today. Illinois can get high and California is limiting freelancers. Plus we hear Audre Lorde’s perspective on guilt and have to ask ourselves why are news stations mixing and matching black congressmen’s images? Tune in for your two minutes of insight.
The Launch of a Black News Network, HBCU Sound in Rome, Kanye and Election year buzz! The New Year is starting and so is this podcast.