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Brooklyn Girl In…Sicily and Barcelona [Episode #4]

The last leg of the Brooklyn Funk Essentials Tour lands Hanifah in Sicily and Spain. There she enjoys some gelato, fights a fever beneath a volcano named Aetna and bikes through the side streets of Barcelona.

Brooklyn Girl In.. Nice to Paris [Episode #3]

This episode follows Hanifah and the Brooklyn Funk Essentials on the first leg of their spring tour through France and Torino, Italy. There Hanifah deals with Italian toilet rest stops, rocks the stage in both cities and rural towns and meets up with lesbians of color in Paris who entertain new terms for “People of Color”.

Brooklyn Girl In…Amsterdam [Episode #2]

Before meeting up with the Brooklyn Funk Essentials for a month long tour, Hanifah stops in Amsterdam as a guest of the Crime Jazz Festival. There she meets people who not just show her the town but bits of herself 3,000 miles from home. She finds out that Amsterdam is more than what it is known for and that its real intoxicants are found in its people.

 
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Black Girl In…Stockholm [Episode#1]

This is the debut episode of Black Girl In. Taken from the book Black Girl In Paris written by Shay Youngblood, BLack Girl In… the new podcast from iLoveUPeople.com is a travel and tour log of artist Hanifah Walidah. As a member of the massive multi-national neofunk band The Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Hanifah will video […]