Episode 10: Stoop on the couch

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Episode 10: Stoop on the couch

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Nov 23, 2017

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It's been a season! Now we wrap things up with a visit to a therapist. Talking some things out and shaking it out with some line dancing senior citizens.

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Nov 23, 2017

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The Stoop podcast digs into stories that are not always shared out in the open. Hosts Leila Day and Hana Baba start conversations and provide professionally-reported stories about what it means to be black and how we talk about blackness. Come hang out on The Stoop as we dialog about the diaspora.

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Episode 10: Stoop on the couch

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