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The Stoop: That Black Tax

KALW | By Hana Baba,
Leila Day
Published January 12, 2021 at 5:02 PM PST

For many of us, success and 'making it' also means you're expected to help out and support your family. Whether you're Black American, or a child of Black immigrants, that 'Black Tax' is often something you're going to be thinking about. In this episode of The Stoop, we get personal with a story from Mwende Hinojosa who explains how WhatsApp brings her Kenyan family together but it can also be very ... taxing.

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Hana Baba
Hana Baba is host of Crosscurrents, KALW's weeknight newsmagazine that broadcasts on KALW Public Radio in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Leila Day
Leila Day is a Senior Producer at Pineapple Street Media and is the Executive Producer and co-host of The Stoop Podcast, stories about the black diaspora. Her work has been featured on NPR, 99% Invisible, the BBC as well as other outlets. Before The Stoop, she was an editor at Al Jazeera's podcast network and worked on creating and editing award winning narrative driven journalism. She began her career in journalism at KALW where she worked as a health care and criminal justice reporter. During that time she contributed as an editor, taught audio storytelling to inmates at San Quentin, and helped develop curriculum for training upcoming reporters.
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