Ep 24 - Racism and Advocacy - Folake Phillips
Moms Changing the World
English - April 22, 2021 05:47 - 1 hour - 56.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsParenting Kids & Family Health & Fitness Mental Health Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
During the week that the verdict is released about George Floyd's murder, I have an important conversation about community awareness for community healing and connections with non-profit founder, Folake Phillips. After we chat about new motherhood and the role allergies played in early children's heath decision, we delve into why Black Lives Matter and what all of us can do to fight systemic racism. AWỌ Center's mission is to be a model community leveraging technology and social media to promote social justice and global change for humanity.
AWỌ is a social justice nonprofit that offers inspiring programs and community workshops to bring people together across racial, economic and cultural divides to unpack and share a vast array of different human experiences, as well as, create new opportunities for collective upward mobility.
AWỌ was founded in 2020 by Folake Phillips, a Yoruba princess from Osun State in Nigeria, in response to the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minnesota police and the national street protests that erupted for Black Lives Matter in the midst of the US COVID-19 pandemic. The organization started by facilitating discussions around structural racism via color, class and culture in hopes of bridging gaps and creating opportunities for deeper cross-cultural understanding, exchange and connection.
AWỌ is the word for skin and also color in the Yoruba language of Nigeria. Home | AWO (awocenter.org)
Host:Ekua Walker, NP in Child Development and CEO
Chief Encouragement Officer of Moms Changing the World podcast
Production Partner: Koby Blankson
Podcast Art: Joel and Esther Ishler