Welcome back to The Happy Hour! Your palate cleansing podcast is here to provide some fresh insight on Black experiences during the covid-19 pandemic, and how the intersections of identity shape how we all move through the world.

Join hosts Malakai Wade (@malakaiwade) and shaylyn martos (@shaylynmartos) in a short jaunt from our regular format; episode 3 is a conversation with Golden Gate Xpress reporters Nia Coats and Whitney Papalii about their recent work and personal experiences.

We find our happiness through sharing our passions with people we respect. Change begins with necessary conversation, and results from organized action.

Welcome to our first Happy Hour episode of the fall semester! Your palate cleansing podcast is here to provide some fresh insight on the relationship between the SF State Black Students’ Union and the Golden Gate Xpress, social media slactivism, and how we experience reporting from certain identity roles.
Join hosts Malakai Wade (@malakaiwade) and shaylyn martos (@shaylynmartos) in our second part of a conversation with Xpress reporters Nia Coats and Whitney Papalii about their recent work and personal experiences.
We find our happiness through sharing our passions with people we respect. Change begins with necessary conversation, and results from organized action.

Find this week’s stories and background below!

Nia’s stories:
Black owned cannabis companies
goldengatexpress.org/93667/city/ent…abis-industry/

Black Invincibility: The Myth
goldengatexpress.org/93062/latest/o…lity-the-myth/

Whitney’s stories:
SF State’s Black Student Union raises money for local Black-owned businesses
docs.google.com/document/d/1eqGCD…ULu_LJy1hm4I/edit

Black Residents United in Housing hosts its first meeting of the semester to welcome back students
goldengatexpress.org/90911/campus/b…back-students/

Background research (optional!):
SFSU Resource Guide, collected by the BSU
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x…AwB0zk/edit#gid=0

Fighting inequity in the face of COVID-19
www.apa.org/monitor/2020/06/cov…d-fighting-inequity

Marijuana’s prohibition, its politics and its historic racists undertones
goldengatexpress.org/89550/latest/o…ts-undertones/

‘We still have a long way to go,’ say 1968 SF State activists
goldengatexpress.org/85419/latest/n…ate-activists/

The fight for Ethnic Studies continues
goldengatexpress.org/89909/latest/n…ies-continues/

Promises unfulfilled for College of Ethnic Studies
goldengatexpress.org/78322/latest/n…thnic-studies/