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EPISODE · May 28, 2026 · 31 MIN

Black Women Are Leaving America. Here Is Why We Understand.

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If you have had seventeen tabs open at 2AM with flight prices and cost of living comparisons for countries you never said out loud to anyone, this episode is for you.Two Black women sit down and talk honestly about the moment leaving America stopped being a fantasy and started being a plan. Kenya. St. Croix. Zanzibar. The research is real, the conversations are real, and the reasons are not new. Black Americans have been asking this question privately for a long time. We are just saying it out loud now.We talk about what it would actually take to go, what it is costing us to stay, and what happened the night one of our mothers said she did not know anything about Africa and then called at 6AM asking about the weather in Accra.This is not abandonment. This is a decision. And we understand why Black women are making it.This is Sober Opinion. Pull Up. We Need to Talk. New episodes every Thursday.#SoberOpinion #BlackWomenLeaving #BlackWomenPodcast

If you have had seventeen tabs open at 2AM with flight prices and cost of living comparisons for countries you never said out loud to anyone, this episode is for you.Two Black women sit down and talk honestly about the moment leaving America stopped being a fantasy and started being a plan. Kenya. St. Croix. Zanzibar. The research is real, the conversations are real, and the reasons are not new. Black Americans have been asking this question privately for a long time. We are just saying it out loud now.We talk about what it would actually take to go, what it is costing us to stay, and what happened the night one of our mothers said she did not know anything about Africa and then called at 6AM asking about the weather in Accra.This is not abandonment. This is a decision. And we understand why Black women are making it.This is Sober Opinion. Pull Up. We Need to Talk. New episodes every Thursday.#SoberOpinion #BlackWomenLeaving #BlackWomenPodcast

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