From Promise to Purpose

Habeebah sits down with Yvonka M. Hall, Executive Director of The Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition (NEOBHC), as she shares the ancestral and post-traumatic wisdom that inform her life, work and motherhood. Yvonka shares how life-changing loss, clarity of purpose, and connection to the community shape her vision for Black health and well-being. 

During our conversation, Yvonka encourages listeners to read the Kerner Commission Report, which was released in 1968 and identified institutional racism as the root cause for the despair and destruction plaguing Black urban communities. The recommendations in the Kerner Commission Report remain extremely relevant and urgent today, as does the authors' warning that the conditions caused by racism destroy Black lives and pose risk to the well-being of every American. Read a summary of the report by way of the Othering & Belonging Institute.

Habeebah invites listeners to support the work of the NEOBHC by donating or becoming a member: https://www.neoblackhealthcoalition.org/membership.

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