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Baka Omubo
46 Views · 4 years ago

HAPI Talks with Dr. Alicia Watkins about the Revolutionary Act of Black Love and its importance

Nataki Kambon
78 Views · 4 years ago

Join chef Ama for a food tasting demo to see if we can discover is delicious, inexpensive vegan food possible in Africa/Ghana? Take the Ultimate Taste Bud Challenge.

Karuga Mwangi
74 Views · 4 years ago

⁣Plants used to cure tooth ache and their Gĩkũyũ names

Karuga Mwangi
111 Views · 4 years ago

⁣Some Medicinal plants - Gĩkũyũ names Pt 4

Karuga Mwangi
33 Views · 4 years ago

⁣Some Medicinal plants - Gĩkũyũ names Pt 3

Karuga Mwangi
58 Views · 4 years ago

⁣Some Medicinal Plants - Gĩkũyũ names pt 2

Karuga Mwangi
87 Views · 4 years ago

⁣Gĩkũyũ names for some medicinal plants

Kwame Fulani
34 Views · 4 years ago

Black farmers like Thelonius Cook of Virginia are embracing sustainable farming practices found in their African cultural heritage.

Kwadwo Danmeara Tòkunbọ̀ Datɛ
17 Views · 4 years ago

www.bittermedicineblogs.com – A recent New York Times article, “Working to Close the Breast Feeding Gap” totally surprised us! In it, the article says that Black women are not encouraged to nurse as much as white women, due to the history of their own mothers not breast feeding them.

Shockingly, Black newborns are nine times more likely than white babies to get formula in hospitals. Initially, white women led the charge to raise their children on baby formula, and Black women followed suit. However, at some point white women ditched baby formula, realizing “breast is best”, but Black women did not follow. It should be noted: White women leading the charge towards feeding babies with baby formula is rooted in Slavery.

Many Black women today shun breast feeding because it reminds them of days gone by, during slavery, when Black women were forced to not only work the fields, but also be wet nurses to white families.

We examine the reasons why there isn’t more lactation assistance in our community; Black women’s traumatic history with being wet nurses to their oppressor’s children; the pros and cons of breast feeding from both a scientific and metaphysical stance; and we relate all of this to why white supremacy discourages breast feeding in the Black community.

These and other topics are discussed. Listen to find out more!

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