“It's important for the community to be teaching our history — the reality with our history is we have to be the ones to tell the story.”

Black History is not just one month - it’s being made every day. But since we are NOT experts about the Black experience - especially when it comes to Black History, we sat down with FrieMMds of the Pod (past guests) — Stanley Lumax (Founder of African Chophouse AND Teranga), and Suzanne Sinatra (Founder & CEO of Private Packs — to unpack what Black History meant to two folks with very interesting backgrounds and experiences - as immigrants and children of immigrants. You’ll find this one to be a very...spirited conversation that makes you unpack and question what these months even mean, or should/n’t mean to us all....

LEARN ABOUT STANLEY:

AfricanChopHouse.org, @africanchophouse
itsTeranga.com, @itsteranga_
youtu.be/_KpbMPWNnCc
Stanley on MM (2021) modmypod.com/episodes/ep-48-stanley-lumax-builds-diaspora-community-thru-food

LEARN ABOUT SUZANNE

instagram.com/suzziesinatra
Privatepacks.com
businessinsider.com/founder-private-packs-while-undergoing-breast-cancer-treatment-2021-12
Suzanne on MM (2020): https://apple.co/3sFyL1c

MENTIONS

CANADIAN BLACK HISTORY: thestar.com/news/gta/2020/06/04/why-the-black-struggle-in-canada-has-all-but-been-erased-two-historians-explain-our-blind-spot.html
PERSON: Malcolm X - wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X
PERSON: Mary Beatrice - wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kenner
PERSON: Mae Jemison - wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Jemison
FILM (Suzanne): Hidden Figures (2016) - imdb.com/title/tt4846340
FILM (Suzanne): King Richard (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9620288
SERIES (Stanley): Exterminate all the Brutes (2021 - HBO Max) - imdb.com/title/tt8396314
FILM (Stanley): Lumumba (2000, Raoul Peck) - imdb.com/title/tt0246765
FILM (Stanley): I Am Not Your Negro (2016, Raoul Peck) - imdb.com/title/tt5804038
FILM (Raman): Summer of Soul (2021) - imdb.com/title/tt11422728

2021: Looking forward, by looking back