CHI Sunnyside E9: Community Health & Crime Drought w Healthy Hood's Tanya Lozano & Allen Washington

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Hosts: Nehez Meniooh, Kasabez Maakmaah, and Giziribtah Debasah

Guests: Chairman Tanya Lozano and Chairman Allen Washington of Healthy Hood Chicago

Interview starts 30 minutes in.

We continue our series on healing resources with Healthy Hood Chicago a non-profit organization founded by Tanya Lozano. Healthy Hood Chicago is a revolutionary organization aimed at erasing the alarming gap of life expectancy between communities of color and white affluent neighborhoods. They offer an array of programming to the community for health, nutrition, mental health, art entrepreneurship, political education and community building and partnership to provide a backdrop conducive to leading a healthy lifestyle.

In this episode, we discuss:

Legacy of activism in the Lozano Family - Rudy Lozano and Emma Lozano

The origins of Healthy Hood Chicago

KNVS Arts & Culture

Evolution of community movements

Coming together across cultural boundries for the common good

AES (Alliance of States of the Sahel) new alliance between Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger

Season for spiritual pilgrimages and Ancestral ceremonies

MAAYA SIRA Animist pilgrimage 2023 in Mali

Definition of Voodoo/Voudoun and it's history as a heritage for descendants of the African Diaspora

Ivory Coast, Gold Coast, Slave Coast

Conspicuously simultaneous rise in terrorism and mining in Burkina Faso

"Hidden countries": traditionalists living outside post-colonial rule

Here are some links to information, people and groups referenced in the episode:

Healthy Hood Chicago:

https://www.healthyhoodchi.com/

https://www.instagram.com/healthyhoodchi/

https://www.youtube.com/@healthyhoodp.e.7467

KNVS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLrF2zAzqsA

Centro Sin Fronteras:

https://familialatinaunidacom.wordpress.com/

https://www.facebook.com/centrosin.fronteras/

The Death Gap – David A Ansell

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Gap-How-Inequality-Kills/dp/022642815X

Coffee, Hiphop & Mental Health:

https://chhamh.org/our-mission

MaShaun Ali – Trap House Chicago

https://www.traphousechicago.us/events-1/crime-drought-no-crime-no-violence

https://www.mashaunhendricks.us/

Dion Dream Produce

https://dionschicagodream.com/

Alternative Schools Network

https://www.asnchicago.org/

Kôrêdjo-Missa Doumbia, organizer of MAAYA SIRA Animist pilgrimage

https://www.facebook.com/moussa.doumbia.3760