Well Hans Jónathan became one of the first people of colour to live in Iceland. Later, he became the subject of a groundbreaking DNA study. Read: The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan
Yes! There are black people in Iceland. I would guess family, jobs and that there are benefits in other countries that the US has yet to provide. Check out Jewells Chambers page and UA-cam video. grapevine.is/mag/interview/2019/01/04/being-black-in-iceland-an-interview-with-jewells-chambers/
Hey Cuz! When UA-cam's creepy algorithms say where Evelyn goes, ye shall follow and suggests "Say It Loud." I'm here for it! Azie ended the first video saying, "Black culture is American culture." Would love more videos driving home the important role we have played (and continue to play) in influencing American culture. Mainstream society will have Black people thinking they are degenerates while they appropriate elements of our culture, so yes we celebrate all of the Black Girl Magic, Black Boy Joy and Black Pride as reminders of our greatness when others will have us believe we are less than! There's a feeling of tokenism (for me) with celebrating BHM. Would love this as a platform for showing what it looks like to celebrate Black culture everyday through books, music, food, etc.
How about a segment on black owned businesses and majority black communities before and after the civil war and after the civil rights movement in the 60s (throughout the US, not just in the south).
Excellent job, ladies and bravo to PBS for being bold and showing the importance of celebrating everyone! Loving yourself, culture, community, and your heritage is not racism - especially when others have tried to destroy it over centuries. It's about having balance. Loving your culture and your race is not insulting other cultures. No race or culture is better than another.
1. Would absolutely love a segment on Black twitter! 2. Black Pride is so important to me; growing up in predominantly white spaces, loving my skin and my culture wasn't easy, but as a teen and now as an adult, I'm building community around that pride. Black Pride is survival.
As an African immigrant, I can tell through a history of war that the cause of war is always division, knowing exactly who your tribe is and who isn’t your tribe creates a visible division between countrymen, creating internal wars and domestic terrorist attacks. Race divides, it is better to look at what unites us than what divides us, that being said there is nothing wrong with loving your race and ethnicity as long as you love people more. If we could embrace our humanity, and love people first before loving our ethnicity, maybe less wars will be started and more lives will be saved. Also don’t get so self absorbed with one’s culture that you don’t recognize and admire other cultures, other people.
Nathan Tompson I heard about what is happening to the whites there, again another example of race and ethnicity dividing a country and people returning violence with violence, the endless cycle of war. I wish we would all listen to Martin “I have a dream that one day right there in Alabama little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.” Why can’t we end the war with love for each other and friendship that knows no distinction between races.
U should thank ur luckey stars u had the privilege of growing up with European kids and families u pop should move BACK HOME and thus remember what u ran from
I'm freaking waiting so hard for an episode on African American English!! I studied linguistics and African American studies in college and my black English class changed my life. If you need resources for scholars who specialize in this John Rickford, Geneva Smitherman, Lisa Green, and Walt Wolfram are all great places to start.
In a country as diverse as America, pride in your ethnic identity is a way distinguish yourself and appreciate the contribution people like you have made to our culture.
Yesss!! Black pride isn't about hating on others- it's about loving ourselves when others don't. You gotta have pride in yourself, bc if you allow ppl to, they will destroy you from the inside out. Love who you are where you come from! ✊🏽 So thank you for making this. I'm showing it to my 12 year old daughter tonight! 🤗
@@thepincushionman7063 You can't be racist when you have only mentioned being proud of your race. Now if I said Black is the supreme race - that would be racist.
Okay, first off, I am a white man from Australia, I am married to a Black woman, and stepdad to another. We live in Washington state, and I would say: Yes Black Pride is relevant and needed, very much needed. Thank you, and I appreciate your humor.
Black pride is seeing and accepting the beauty in all things black. My love for my people is infinite & has nothing to do with anti-whiteness. Love the vid, keep it up queens!
White pride is seeing and accepting the beauty in all things white. My love for my people is infinite and has nothing to do with anti-blackness. Do you see this paragraph in the same non-racist light as yours?
"Although some might think mentioning your race is divisive, black people in America are in a unique position - our culture is also our race. Having black pride is similar to marching in the St. Patrick's Day parade if you're Irish." I love it! A succinct response to people asking why we can't have white pride parades.
Your culture is not your race. Black people in other parts of the world have nothing to do with African-Americans and African-Americans have nothing to do with them. Your culture is American, African-American to be specific. But you also live with culture since whites are the dominant group in the USA.
To me, black pride is expressing your joy and standing up for the rights of your people and others, in spite of the consequences. I think of those whose lives and careers were ruined for as little as a fist in the air, or joining with other communities to feed hungry children in the city. I think of the young mother who was arrested at a black lives matter protest. I think of how they fight for change and risk it all to say we too deserve rights and protections. I think of how this country makes it just shy of illegal to be proud of who you are, and how these people rise above the onslaught of negative imagery and taboo. I think of them, and say to myself, I can be brave too. I think of them, look at my skin, and smile.
Black Pride is so incredibly important, especially in today's day and age. Black Pride is acknowledging and living in my blackness and being in solidarity with my other black brothers and sisters all over the world.
Just found your channel today and I love it! I follow a lot of black pages on Instagram and so many of them are about putting whites down to uplift blacks. I think there needs to be change with the way blacks are seen in main stream but that shouldn’t lead to putting other down.
Black pride is not only still relevant today, it is NECESSARY. Thank you so much for this video and for this amazing, life-altering channel. I've learned so much from you ladies :')
The Black experience here in America has been ‘no joke’ so I was a little skeptical at first. Your explanation about why you use humor was helpful. This program should probably be viewed in schools regularly.
Loving it! Congrats internet cousin, Azie nice to meet you, and great job to the Say It Loud gang. Would you guys consider doing an episode of blacks in science fiction since Azie threw up the Vulcan live long and prosper? And not just Nichelle Nichols and her connection to MLK Jr., but like Octavia Butler or more recent Tomi Adeyemi. Also the intersectionality of black identity in the US. Ya'll hit on it with the cheering for everybody black but...maybe from a historical perspective? Giving up or holding onto your first culture, like Arthur Schomburg, to assimilate as a black American. This was a lot. But I'm so excited for the content you guys created. I want more!
Good lord, it’s been three days, this *really* needs more views. Let’s not lose you two’s valuable voices to the UA-cam machine! I think, as a white boi myself, I’m more inclined to default to you two’s opinion on the matter as people who not only feel that pride themselves, but understand why you feel it and why it’s necessary. I think the point that black American are an ethnicity as well as a race due to the forced distillation of disparate cultures into a single conglomerate is a really interesting point because despite what the far-right would say, there hasn’t really been anything like that to that scale of deliberation and magnitude done to white people; there’s still many areas in the US that serve as hubs for people of a singular “white” ethnicity as much as there is a mix of ethnicities, not to mention the general cultures of certain regions, certain environments, even specific cities, and even specific sections of those cities. And yet, there is a small yet powerful group gaining traction within the US that seeks to reduce all that to a singular idea of culture to hold all white people and exclude everyone else. Black culture, at least from my perspective, isn’t singular so much as it is united, and “white” culture isn’t even that, so to reduce either down to such a small dichotomy for the purposes of exclusion and bigotry... It’s really telling when someone says “white pride”. “Southern pride” sounds moronic and you’ll hear it echoed from the same people more often than not, but it can communicate the idea of an actual culture (bear in mind, a culture that’s still bawling and bawking over the Civil War); “white pride” is just degenerative, it says nothing to power because, well, we _have_ power, it’s not pride against shame, it’s just dangerous self-flagellation.
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! And y’all are right! Black pride can be equated to a form of resistance against the “supreme”. Loving my natural hair is black pride! Not hiding my accent that’s rooted in The Souf is my black pride! And so on and so forth lol.
HEY! Ég er íslenskur! Og svartur! ❤️❤️❤️ I’m black and Icelandic. Granted I’m not much of an Olympic athlete hahaha. I love this channel. It helps me explain things here. Thank you from Iceland. 🇮🇸
When you wear your natural hair you send a message that you love yourself ....it's one way you can demonstrate black pride. Some other people are offended by it, but that's their problem, NOT yours!
This delineates and explains the difference between ethnicity and race and their amalgamation in the black experience. As a non-black person, that's a really important insight. So thanks! ...Also, "Dark 003..." Perfect delivery. Can't wait for the next episode!
Loving absolutely all of this! This show is what black pride means to me more positive diverse representations of black people and specifically black women.
Just got the info from the Laura Coates show, this morning. I homeschool and this is just awesome and a great lesson. Much love keep doing what your doing ladies Thanks PBS for allowing the platform :)
I love this!! I'm a big fan of the channel and content and looking forward to more. I've always been a big fan of my #internetcousin and, although I'm new to Azie, I'm loving her as well! I'm looking forward to more great content!
So pumped for this, a lot of great creators on this project! I'm deaf, and I was a little disappointed with the not-so-great captions, I'd really appreciate it if they were well-done so I don't have to do a lot of mental work figuring out the timings, what's really being said, and such as. Other than that, I look forward to the upcoming episodes!
Late-onset becoming deaf. Closed captioning You Tube--horrified so many videos by "great artists" are not recognizing deaf community, the need for on-time captioning to their number one hits. Thanks, Rogan. I applaud fans who do their own captioning in Comments section and let them know deaf community thanks them--share with public. Unless you're in it, people don't find it appalling. Next time folks start bopping with Queen Bae turn the sound off. Still like it? Meanwhile, truly looking forward to more Say It Loud episodes. The world needs this show.
As a white person I’ll never understand black pride fully because I haven’t experienced life as a black person. I didn’t realize how little I knew though until my brother and I moved in with a black husband and wife. Before then I didn’t know that your race made a difference in whether people were willing to take foster kids in. I remember hours of calls sitting in Macdonalds with our social worker kept asking if people were willing to take two Japanese kids. We’re only half Japanese but the social worker kept saying Japanese kids Japanese kids and when I asked her way she said that some foster parents won’t take in kids of certain races.... I was Naïve enough to assume it didn’t matter anymore. Living with them was eye opening because I watched them face racism frequently. they were interior designers who had the skills to design, install and build or sew all their pieces. They told their clients that they had a carpenter and a seamstress because people would try to pay them less or assume they didn’t know what they were doing because they downgraded them to no more than black laborers or something. Not that my opinion makes much of a difference but I think it’s awesome they can do both! And the dad used to be a high level stock broker in New York until someone screwed him over and he took a big hit in one of the recessions of the early 2000’s. I remember the dad getting really angry when he found out that I was being called a nigger at school because I lived with them. I mean I was upset but as a Christian I was more upset as being called a witch. They were proud of their blackness and their Jamaican culture and were always open to educate me and my brother and answer any questions we had. They were proud of their blackness though they understood how society views blackness and adapted accordingly based on the situation. For example they talked differently at home than when working with clients. To me as a random white person they showed black pride. Interesting random fact! They were also Jewish and proud to be Jewish! They were really in your face about the Jewish thing sometimes. Lol.
Iam a Brazilian from the most African influenced culture State in Brazil and I remember saying on TV in the 70's about the Black is Beautiful slogan. I was in my early teens and in my innocence I thought " What they don't Know?" . I didn't realise then that how lucky I was to be raised in a household were my parents were so proud of their parents and their stories. The difference was that we learned in school the influence in our food, in our language,religion and behaviour from the mixture of people (native Indians, slaves and the Portuguese) that made our country. I had heard also stories of many ways that my father heard racists comments bad knowing that never made me feel ugly or inferior, exactly the opposite, it made me feel stronger to acknowledge what my ancestors survived. We are the Survivors of the Fittest! and that is everything to be Black and Proud! AXE!
First off huge "THANKS" ladies for the content you are producing. I am really enjoying the questions and answers you are giving us. We are seen so much as a monolith that showing that there are differences in thoughts, actions, beliefs, and all things otherwise is so helpful. I think that black pride is just as important today as ever; we still live in a world where we are told that we are not good enough on many levels and the generations following us need to know that they are smart, beautiful, creative, worthy and deserving of love and admiration. Things are not what they used to be but they are still not what they could be. By lifting each other up we are actively turning the tide on the hatred and self degradation that has been done to us as a whole.
I think that a pride movement is important and relevant for any group of people that are commonly expected to apologize and defend themselves for simply existing.
Black pride is more important to me today than ever because I'm a mother and I have school age children. When I learned that the minimum Big 3 historical black figures weren't being taught in school (MLK, Rosa/Harriet, Thurgood) I knew I had to take matters into my own hands and educate my children beyond the surface curriculum even more than I already was.
I am a cis white woman from Germany and I found this very insightful. I shall now go and binge a few episodes. I’m currently reading ‚This will be my undoing‘ by Morgan Jerkins and to other white folks reading this, who want to educate themselves: I can highly recommend that book.
This is so cool! I’ve been watching Ahsante and Evelyn for years now and can’t wait to watch this series - and check out the other people working on this show. :)
Please do a black Twitter episode. I love this episode!!! Absolutely black pride is necessary today. Seeing more of us in our natural hair glory and having family time as we do is so encouraging that we are moving in somewhat of the right direction. Please keep it up. I'm subscribing to everything "Say it Loud"!!!😁😁😁
Lol the beginning self love appreciation skit made my heart melt cus it's soo true! Whenever I see brown and black folks I often acknowledge and greet them w/ a "what's up" or a ✌🏾 sign + a 😁.
I agree! #BlackPride is all about celebrating the beautiful things that make black people unique! I grew up hating my kinky-curly hair, because it was not socially accepted like my white friend's straight hair. However, today, as someone who's consistently rockin my natural fro, i make it a point to love on black women of all ages and their hair ! 🖤🖤🖤
At my school I was working on a poster project where we would put things that are important to us on it and I wrote #blacklivesmatter. I'm white and my school was predominantly white and this white girl and lightskin boy said to me I shouldn't write it because it's offensive to people and should rather write #alllivesmatter . This really upset me and still effects me to this day why do people refuse to let black people celebrate themselves??? I explained to them it wasn't negative in any way , rather it's celebrating success of black people even so All the white kids were against me I just wish I could've done something more. I'm glad y'all made this video I hope it helps to educate ignorant people like I can't thank you ❤️❤️❤️❤️this has given me more knowledge so hopefully I can successfully educate more people in the future . One love ❤️
“ICELAND?! We got people there??”
I HOLLERED! 😭
Evelyn is a joy
The PinCushionMan who said anything about owning anyone? goodbye.
That joke made me feel uncomfortable, cause it insinuates you should cheer for people based on whether or not people of your race live there
Well Hans Jónathan became one of the first people of colour to live in Iceland. Later, he became the subject of a groundbreaking DNA study. Read: The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan
Yes! There are black people in Iceland. I would guess family, jobs and that there are benefits in other countries that the US has yet to provide. Check out Jewells Chambers page and UA-cam video. grapevine.is/mag/interview/2019/01/04/being-black-in-iceland-an-interview-with-jewells-chambers/
Thanks for watching y'all! Feedback + suggestions for episodes very much welcome
How about HBCUs and the importance of truthful (not whitewashed) black history achievements in our education system.
Hey Cuz! When UA-cam's creepy algorithms say where Evelyn goes, ye shall follow and suggests "Say It Loud." I'm here for it! Azie ended the first video saying, "Black culture is American culture." Would love more videos driving home the important role we have played (and continue to play) in influencing American culture. Mainstream society will have Black people thinking they are degenerates while they appropriate elements of our culture, so yes we celebrate all of the Black Girl Magic, Black Boy Joy and Black Pride as reminders of our greatness when others will have us believe we are less than! There's a feeling of tokenism (for me) with celebrating BHM. Would love this as a platform for showing what it looks like to celebrate Black culture everyday through books, music, food, etc.
How about a segment on black owned businesses and majority black communities before and after the civil war and after the civil rights movement in the 60s (throughout the US, not just in the south).
I'm here for this! Best thing to happen to UA-cam since Awkward Black Girl and GrapevineTV❤❤❤
Whats good, internet cousin? So happy you are part of creating this series. #imrootingforeverybodyblack
#sayitloud
#Imblackandimproud
When you’re not black but trying to be a good/better ally...
🙌🏾 aye
Yup!
Yup and learning is always great
Pizza Addict imperative!
Even if I was 0 on the woke scale, I'd still find this channel super interesting and entertaining. They are hilarious!
Look at the credits! Hallease, Ahsante, Evelyn and Baby Blo! So dope congratulations 🎊🍾 you guys
BABY BLO!!
Excellent job, ladies and bravo to PBS for being bold and showing the importance of celebrating everyone! Loving yourself, culture, community, and your heritage is not racism - especially when others have tried to destroy it over centuries. It's about having balance. Loving your culture and your race is not insulting other cultures. No race or culture is better than another.
1. Would absolutely love a segment on Black twitter! 2. Black Pride is so important to me; growing up in predominantly white spaces, loving my skin and my culture wasn't easy, but as a teen and now as an adult, I'm building community around that pride. Black Pride is survival.
Indeed!! Indeed...
Nathan Tompson you so mad 😂
As an African immigrant, I can tell through a history of war that the cause of war is always division, knowing exactly who your tribe is and who isn’t your tribe creates a visible division between countrymen, creating internal wars and domestic terrorist attacks. Race divides, it is better to look at what unites us than what divides us, that being said there is nothing wrong with loving your race and ethnicity as long as you love people more. If we could embrace our humanity, and love people first before loving our ethnicity, maybe less wars will be started and more lives will be saved. Also don’t get so self absorbed with one’s culture that you don’t recognize and admire other cultures, other people.
Nathan Tompson I heard about what is happening to the whites there, again another example of race and ethnicity dividing a country and people returning violence with violence, the endless cycle of war. I wish we would all listen to Martin “I have a dream that one day right there in Alabama little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.” Why can’t we end the war with love for each other and friendship that knows no distinction between races.
U should thank ur luckey stars u had the privilege of growing up with European kids and families u pop should move BACK HOME and thus remember what u ran from
I'm freaking waiting so hard for an episode on African American English!! I studied linguistics and African American studies in college and my black English class changed my life. If you need resources for scholars who specialize in this John Rickford, Geneva Smitherman, Lisa Green, and Walt Wolfram are all great places to start.
YAAAAS, I also study linguistics. I would love this video hahah ❤️
@@wdcurry111 Well, if you "aks" for such an episode, you just might get it!!!
We are SO EXCITED.
Same :)
YAY!!
AS AM I
In a country as diverse as America, pride in your ethnic identity is a way distinguish yourself and appreciate the contribution people like you have made to our culture.
Yesss!! Black pride isn't about hating on others- it's about loving ourselves when others don't. You gotta have pride in yourself, bc if you allow ppl to, they will destroy you from the inside out. Love who you are where you come from! ✊🏽
So thank you for making this. I'm showing it to my 12 year old daughter tonight! 🤗
Beautifully said! 💖
this is everything i ever wanted an educational video series to be.
Black pride is relevant everyday. As you stated Black is my culture. And I'm proud of that.
@@thepincushionman7063 You can't be racist when you have only mentioned being proud of your race.
Now if I said Black is the supreme race - that would be racist.
@@latashathomas4239 exactly
This is so awesome! Black pride to me is being authentic to myself no matter what space I am in.
I love this...because often times we feel like we have to mute our BLACKNESS in order to make others feel comfortable. NO HUNNY!
White guy here. Thank you for this channel.
Okay, first off, I am a white man from Australia, I am married to a Black woman, and stepdad to another. We live in Washington state, and I would say: Yes Black Pride is relevant and needed, very much needed. Thank you, and I appreciate your humor.
What a great comment!
I subscribed just off the strength of my love for Evelyn
Black pride is seeing and accepting the beauty in all things black. My love for my people is infinite & has nothing to do with anti-whiteness. Love the vid, keep it up queens!
White pride is seeing and accepting the beauty in all things white. My love for my people is infinite and has nothing to do with anti-blackness.
Do you see this paragraph in the same non-racist light as yours?
IT'S HERE!!!! So pumped for this, well done y'all
It's a wonderful thing you've created. I'm looking forward to what it brings.
TheGraceOfEbonee Yay! Thanks so much for watching!
I think it's cool that our name is almost the same lol just the switch of the H and S lol
The James Brown wigs!!!!! 😂
Hella Black. Hella proud. 365. 24/7
"Although some might think mentioning your race is divisive, black people in America are in a unique position - our culture is also our race. Having black pride is similar to marching in the St. Patrick's Day parade if you're Irish." I love it! A succinct response to people asking why we can't have white pride parades.
Your culture is not your race. Black people in other parts of the world have nothing to do with African-Americans and African-Americans have nothing to do with them. Your culture is American, African-American to be specific. But you also live with culture since whites are the dominant group in the USA.
To me, black pride is expressing your joy and standing up for the rights of your people and others, in spite of the consequences. I think of those whose lives and careers were ruined for as little as a fist in the air, or joining with other communities to feed hungry children in the city. I think of the young mother who was arrested at a black lives matter protest. I think of how they fight for change and risk it all to say we too deserve rights and protections. I think of how this country makes it just shy of illegal to be proud of who you are, and how these people rise above the onslaught of negative imagery and taboo. I think of them, and say to myself, I can be brave too. I think of them, look at my skin, and smile.
Black Pride is so incredibly important, especially in today's day and age. Black Pride is acknowledging and living in my blackness and being in solidarity with my other black brothers and sisters all over the world.
YAY!! Go Evelyn! I love seeing you everywhere.
Just found your channel today and I love it! I follow a lot of black pages on Instagram and so many of them are about putting whites down to uplift blacks. I think there needs to be change with the way blacks are seen in main stream but that shouldn’t lead to putting other down.
Black pride is not only still relevant today, it is NECESSARY. Thank you so much for this video and for this amazing, life-altering channel. I've learned so much from you ladies :')
I have Black pride and White pride
I like this. It's important to learn about things I don't know. And I would totally like a Black Twitter episode.
PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW! WE OUTCHEA! Big ups to Ahsante and PBS DS for this amazing opportunity! #ProducerGame100
I’m unapologetically proud to be BLACK...all other races/ethnicities deal with it
Good you should
The Black experience here in America has been ‘no joke’ so I was a little skeptical at first. Your explanation about why you use humor was helpful. This program should probably be viewed in schools regularly.
Loving it! Congrats internet cousin, Azie nice to meet you, and great job to the Say It Loud gang.
Would you guys consider doing an episode of blacks in science fiction since Azie threw up the Vulcan live long and prosper? And not just Nichelle Nichols and her connection to MLK Jr., but like Octavia Butler or more recent Tomi Adeyemi. Also the intersectionality of black identity in the US. Ya'll hit on it with the cheering for everybody black but...maybe from a historical perspective? Giving up or holding onto your first culture, like Arthur Schomburg, to assimilate as a black American.
This was a lot. But I'm so excited for the content you guys created. I want more!
My only complaint is, I wish this was longer!
I needed this more than y’all know!! Sometimes I get mad discouraged and this was helpful! Thank y’all!
Good lord, it’s been three days, this *really* needs more views. Let’s not lose you two’s valuable voices to the UA-cam machine!
I think, as a white boi myself, I’m more inclined to default to you two’s opinion on the matter as people who not only feel that pride themselves, but understand why you feel it and why it’s necessary. I think the point that black American are an ethnicity as well as a race due to the forced distillation of disparate cultures into a single conglomerate is a really interesting point because despite what the far-right would say, there hasn’t really been anything like that to that scale of deliberation and magnitude done to white people; there’s still many areas in the US that serve as hubs for people of a singular “white” ethnicity as much as there is a mix of ethnicities, not to mention the general cultures of certain regions, certain environments, even specific cities, and even specific sections of those cities. And yet, there is a small yet powerful group gaining traction within the US that seeks to reduce all that to a singular idea of culture to hold all white people and exclude everyone else. Black culture, at least from my perspective, isn’t singular so much as it is united, and “white” culture isn’t even that, so to reduce either down to such a small dichotomy for the purposes of exclusion and bigotry... It’s really telling when someone says “white pride”. “Southern pride” sounds moronic and you’ll hear it echoed from the same people more often than not, but it can communicate the idea of an actual culture (bear in mind, a culture that’s still bawling and bawking over the Civil War); “white pride” is just degenerative, it says nothing to power because, well, we _have_ power, it’s not pride against shame, it’s just dangerous self-flagellation.
Evelyn sent me here from Instagram 🤩🤩🤩
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! And y’all are right! Black pride can be equated to a form of resistance against the “supreme”. Loving my natural hair is black pride! Not hiding my accent that’s rooted in The Souf is my black pride! And so on and so forth lol.
HEY! Ég er íslenskur! Og svartur! ❤️❤️❤️ I’m black and Icelandic. Granted I’m not much of an Olympic athlete hahaha. I love this channel. It helps me explain things here. Thank you from Iceland. 🇮🇸
2 of my favorite creators putting in work & putting out knowledge. #hallease, #evelyn
When you wear your natural hair you send a message that you love yourself ....it's one way you can demonstrate black pride. Some other people are offended by it, but that's their problem, NOT yours!
I LOVE THIS SO FUCKING MUCH. THIS IS WHAT I CALL A BEAUTIFUL SURPRISE!!! YES!!
I love this so much! So excited to follow this series! Thanks for putting this out there in the world.
This delineates and explains the difference between ethnicity and race and their amalgamation in the black experience. As a non-black person, that's a really important insight. So thanks! ...Also, "Dark 003..." Perfect delivery. Can't wait for the next episode!
Evelyn, Hallease, and Evelyn's baby bro on the team? I'm down! #blackgirlmagic #blackboyjoy
periwinklepeach ahem...that’s baby blo!
Evelyn so proud of you! Loved the new show. Nice to learn about you Azie!
Loving absolutely all of this! This show is what black pride means to me more positive diverse representations of black people and specifically black women.
I hear that!!!!
Here to support PBS and my brothers and sisters.
A person can never stop learning:)
Just got the info from the Laura Coates show, this morning. I homeschool and this is just awesome and a great lesson. Much love keep doing what your doing ladies Thanks PBS for allowing the platform :)
Absolutely loved this! And the credits just made my heart smile.
Azie! I loved your Ask A Slave series from way back when! It's so nice seeing you again 😁
That Iceland scene tho 😂🤣💀
I love this!! I'm a big fan of the channel and content and looking forward to more. I've always been a big fan of my #internetcousin and, although I'm new to Azie, I'm loving her as well! I'm looking forward to more great content!
I appreciate hearing and learning about your experience and perspectives. ❤️
Yaaasss! James Brown wig! Love the content! Thank you for this!
I am HERE for this!!!! So excited to watch this series! 🙌🏾
This was beautiful! Loving how your energies shown in this! Good stuff!
So pumped for this, a lot of great creators on this project! I'm deaf, and I was a little disappointed with the not-so-great captions, I'd really appreciate it if they were well-done so I don't have to do a lot of mental work figuring out the timings, what's really being said, and such as. Other than that, I look forward to the upcoming episodes!
Hi Rogan! We updated our captions so that they're not the automatic captions from UA-cam. Thanks for pointing it out!
Late-onset becoming deaf. Closed captioning You Tube--horrified so many videos by "great artists" are not recognizing deaf community, the need for on-time captioning to their number one hits. Thanks, Rogan. I applaud fans who do their own captioning in Comments section and let them know deaf community thanks them--share with public. Unless you're in it, people don't find it appalling. Next time folks start bopping with Queen Bae turn the sound off. Still like it? Meanwhile, truly looking forward to more Say It Loud episodes. The world needs this show.
Love this. I’ll need to watch this again to answer your questions. And YES to the Black Twitter request. So proud of y’all!
Y'all are great!! Keep doing what you do!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾
I'm a Black Man that loves Black Superheroes especially when they have Black in their Name
Black is Beautiful
Why couldn’t i have Azie as a teacher and sat next to Evelyn in this very class! They are “educatingly” entertaining
This was so great! Can't wait for more! Looking forward to that Black Twitter episode.
You know what? YOU KNOW WHAT? I feel like complimenting a fellow sistah today. This vid got me hype. Im heading to a party anyway!
Great video!! The sets, lighting, and camera work were amazing. Everything just popped! :D
I love how informative this is. I knew coming here from Origins of Everything was going to be worth it
Come thru Evelyn!!! Slaying PBS! Thats my internet cuzzin!!!
That production team! This is going to be awesome 🤩
As a white person I’ll never understand black pride fully because I haven’t experienced life as a black person. I didn’t realize how little I knew though until my brother and I moved in with a black husband and wife. Before then I didn’t know that your race made a difference in whether people were willing to take foster kids in. I remember hours of calls sitting in Macdonalds with our social worker kept asking if people were willing to take two Japanese kids. We’re only half Japanese but the social worker kept saying Japanese kids Japanese kids and when I asked her way she said that some foster parents won’t take in kids of certain races.... I was Naïve enough to assume it didn’t matter anymore. Living with them was eye opening because I watched them face racism frequently. they were interior designers who had the skills to design, install and build or sew all their pieces. They told their clients that they had a carpenter and a seamstress because people would try to pay them less or assume they didn’t know what they were doing because they downgraded them to no more than black laborers or something. Not that my opinion makes much of a difference but I think it’s awesome they can do both! And the dad used to be a high level stock broker in New York until someone screwed him over and he took a big hit in one of the recessions of the early 2000’s. I remember the dad getting really angry when he found out that I was being called a nigger at school because I lived with them. I mean I was upset but as a Christian I was more upset as being called a witch. They were proud of their blackness and their Jamaican culture and were always open to educate me and my brother and answer any questions we had. They were proud of their blackness though they understood how society views blackness and adapted accordingly based on the situation. For example they talked differently at home than when working with clients. To me as a random white person they showed black pride. Interesting random fact! They were also Jewish and proud to be Jewish! They were really in your face about the Jewish thing sometimes. Lol.
I love this so much I can’t articulate my feelings! 😭🙌🏾✊🏾💖
Black pride is loving the culture and loving yourself.
Iam a Brazilian from the most African influenced culture State in Brazil and I remember saying on TV in the 70's about the Black is Beautiful slogan. I was in my early teens and in my innocence I thought " What they don't Know?" . I didn't realise then that how lucky I was to be raised in a household were my parents were so proud of their parents and their stories. The difference was that we learned in school the influence in our food, in our language,religion and behaviour from the mixture of people (native Indians, slaves and the Portuguese) that made our country.
I had heard also stories of many ways that my father heard racists comments bad knowing that never made me feel ugly or inferior, exactly the opposite, it made me feel stronger to acknowledge what my ancestors survived.
We are the Survivors of the Fittest! and that is everything to be Black and Proud!
AXE!
First off huge "THANKS" ladies for the content you are producing. I am really enjoying the questions and answers you are giving us. We are seen so much as a monolith that showing that there are differences in thoughts, actions, beliefs, and all things otherwise is so helpful. I think that black pride is just as important today as ever; we still live in a world where we are told that we are not good enough on many levels and the generations following us need to know that they are smart, beautiful, creative, worthy and deserving of love and admiration. Things are not what they used to be but they are still not what they could be. By lifting each other up we are actively turning the tide on the hatred and self degradation that has been done to us as a whole.
Thank you! & thanks to Danielle Bainbridge at PBS Origins Of Everything for sending me here!
Oh this is sooo gonna be my son's(and mine) daily, weekly, monthly black history and current event lessons!! Thank you!!
I think that a pride movement is important and relevant for any group of people that are commonly expected to apologize and defend themselves for simply existing.
Black pride is more important to me today than ever because I'm a mother and I have school age children. When I learned that the minimum Big 3 historical black figures weren't being taught in school (MLK, Rosa/Harriet, Thurgood) I knew I had to take matters into my own hands and educate my children beyond the surface curriculum even more than I already was.
Come through Evelyn and PBS. Yesss sis on the partnership
Yes ! Black pride day across the world 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 can you imagine.
You guys holding my country's flag, hahah I just wasn't expecting, and I loved it 🥰🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Thanks so much for this edutainment series! I hope you do black writers/artists too
This was awesome ladies!!!! I can’t wait for the future episodes
My intelligence, features, hair, swag, etc. I love it all about me and my people.
I am a cis white woman from Germany and I found this very insightful. I shall now go and binge a few episodes. I’m currently reading ‚This will be my undoing‘ by Morgan Jerkins and to other white folks reading this, who want to educate themselves: I can highly recommend that book.
Awwwwwwww, I’m so proud of you Evelyn!
Thank y'all. Thank Y'all, so much
Eternal Gratitude. Can't imagine how long this took to make happen
This is so cool! I’ve been watching Ahsante and Evelyn for years now and can’t wait to watch this series - and check out the other people working on this show. :)
Y’all did that!! Yasss queens!!!
Thank you! Loved this. Can't wait for more. Say it Loud!
This was awesome❤️
Please do a black Twitter episode. I love this episode!!! Absolutely black pride is necessary today. Seeing more of us in our natural hair glory and having family time as we do is so encouraging that we are moving in somewhat of the right direction. Please keep it up. I'm subscribing to everything "Say it Loud"!!!😁😁😁
Lol the beginning self love appreciation skit made my heart melt cus it's soo true! Whenever I see brown and black folks I often acknowledge and greet them w/ a "what's up" or a ✌🏾 sign + a 😁.
I love this. Looking forward to seeing more.
I agree! #BlackPride is all about celebrating the beautiful things that make black people unique! I grew up hating my kinky-curly hair, because it was not socially accepted like my white friend's straight hair. However, today, as someone who's consistently rockin my natural fro, i make it a point to love on black women of all ages and their hair ! 🖤🖤🖤
I love this. Sending it to everyone
I love this
I’m two months late, but BLACK TWITTER EPISODE! Love this channel!!!
OBSESSED YOU GUYS! THIS IS AWESOME!
Excellent video yall!!!!! 😍😍😍
This was really awesome! I want to see an episode on Black Twitter for sure!
At my school I was working on a poster project where we would put things that are important to us on it and I wrote #blacklivesmatter. I'm white and my school was predominantly white and this white girl and lightskin boy said to me I shouldn't write it because it's offensive to people and should rather write #alllivesmatter . This really upset me and still effects me to this day why do people refuse to let black people celebrate themselves??? I explained to them it wasn't negative in any way , rather it's celebrating success of black people even so All the white kids were against me I just wish I could've done something more. I'm glad y'all made this video I hope it helps to educate ignorant people like I can't thank you ❤️❤️❤️❤️this has given me more knowledge so hopefully I can successfully educate more people in the future . One love ❤️
I love everything about this! Yas to a black twitter episode.
I watch Evelyn for my own entertainment!! And I got this video as a reading assignment for my African American Studies Class! we love to see it