Holy fucking shit…and even their pictures exude power-AND what fortune for you to have been and continue to be one carrying on their strength. Thank you for sharing their stories and yours! What a gift! 💝
@MakaylaPaterson
2 ай бұрын
What beautiful women with such strength in their stories. Thank you for sharing their legacy
@cabezitadealgodon
21 күн бұрын
You're Congolese foremothers are BEAUTIFUL!
@wilwilson8473
2 ай бұрын
You look so much like your grandmother! Both women are beautiful. I'm happy they are a part of your story.
@celestejohnson4854
18 күн бұрын
With an ancestral linage like this no wonder you are so strong in your identity and have such a drive to empower others. Please never stop!! ❤❤❤
@katestark2519
26 күн бұрын
Beautiful! Just so incredibly beautiful!
@vangu2918
24 күн бұрын
Women will always find a way, so long as they are alive.❤
@queendomlive
2 ай бұрын
i love hearing stories of women's strength than you for sharing
@godsqueen9437
26 күн бұрын
I have a family member that migrated from Mississippi to Illinois and settled in Virginia and became a seamstress for the military too. Women would go hard back then. They were definitely the backbone of our societies
@sybilk9132
23 күн бұрын
Women are just so amazing ❤
@julinas1878
21 күн бұрын
Bravo and thanks for sharing - you make them proud
@Aisha-zl7mv
26 күн бұрын
You look so much like your grandmother. Thank you for sharing part of your roots with us. It's a real privilege to know your family history.
@totallynameless8861
16 күн бұрын
That is real power. I can't imagine how difficult that must of been, but they sound like amazing women.
@RelaxingPlatypus39
Ай бұрын
This is an INCREDIBLE story. I left my first marriage young, bad situation. Idk if it was the same for them, but they are absolute baddies for forging their own path. In the USA it’s easy to forget that in other countries, you have to pay for school. Our free education is truly a luxury. Your ancestors were so strong and so are you. Keep posting your videos, we’ll keep watching ❤
@thisis...apocalipstick
14 күн бұрын
Such a powerful her★story. Thank you for sharing this with us. Love and respect
@daniellean5769
16 күн бұрын
Wow! What beautifully stunning and resilient women ❤
@caseyjude5472
17 күн бұрын
I LOVE this video. Thank you for sharing. ❤
@the808songbird
Күн бұрын
You are part of an incredible legacy
@damaris7687
23 минут бұрын
Absolutely inspirational
@JhadeSagrav
14 күн бұрын
k i knew you were a queen but to know that you come from a LONG LINE OF QUEENS JUST WOW!!!
@rachelgilbert3164
23 күн бұрын
😢 Thank you for sharing your family’s beautiful story with us
@lockette021
Ай бұрын
What a lineage!!
@litaartwolf7506
17 күн бұрын
YALL ARE STUNNING
@misse7154
25 күн бұрын
Great story!
@TheWestIndianWitch
2 ай бұрын
Beauty! Resilience! I was just talking about coming from lineages of forced illiteracy and how when we shine we’re shining with them! Carrying the legacy within that pain … the legacy of wisdom and brilliance outside of institutions!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️ May our ancestors always be elevated and honored! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
@CoryWillowTree
2 ай бұрын
❤🎉 thank you, a beautiful way to honor your ancestors and 🙌🏾 for their perseverance, strength and creativity. May their joy, creativity and strength endure forever ❤ May you be blessed and blessed and blessed!
@justanotherjezebeI
Ай бұрын
I am so glad I found your channel. Amazing history, freaking awesome. ❤
@shreksvr123
17 күн бұрын
thanks for sharing your family’s story ❤❤
@catetanenbaum2418
Ай бұрын
Chills!! ❤️
@Its_me_Aunty
2 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing ❤
@UnicornsPoopRainbows
2 ай бұрын
I love these stories! Inspirational women ❤
@kirti921
Ай бұрын
You are so amazing sis!!! I m inspired by you
@alexisb.8965
Ай бұрын
What an incredible story ❤
@victoriagarcilaso661
2 ай бұрын
Thanks for opening your story to others. Beautiful to hear
@Wee_Catalyst
2 күн бұрын
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@Sea.gxddess
26 күн бұрын
I am not crying at all it’s mist okay
@kunskapskul
Ай бұрын
Thank you the light of the world for sharing this beautiful part of you!! 🍉🤍🌟🧿
@heatherbeadles5940
14 күн бұрын
❤❤❤
@zenobiawebb9506
2 ай бұрын
REMEMBER LADIES NO MATTER HOW CRAZY IT GETS IN THE 21st Century Our MOTHERS HAD TO DEAL WITH ALOT WORSE DONT FORGET THE STRENGTH OF OUR MOTHERS❤
@waterlotus11
Ай бұрын
Our mothers had bodily autonomy & that's been stripped of us in this century when it was protected for halt a century prior. A lot of things were better for our mothers and grandmothers in their youth than it is for us right now. Not everything ofc but this narrative of "it could always be worse" is harmful.
@pinkymii072
Ай бұрын
Don't let our kids have to go through the things they did
@AvaNightingale
17 күн бұрын
Poor women in the US still have to deal with this to this day. Child marriage is still legal in most states with parental consent. And marital SA is effectively legal since there are no enforcement guidelines federally nor in most states on top of having little if any case history to reference for successful cases. And that was BEFORE bodily autonomy was struck down.
@nairadevi2182
2 ай бұрын
Beautiful story! Now I know the connection to the DRC. Don’t think you mentioned the year of migration but I suspect the independence war may have been one of the driving factor behind the migration, especially if they were widowed.
@sumis8096
22 күн бұрын
💛
@1laurelei1
Ай бұрын
Touched my soul. Gah, I'm weeping as I type. There is such strength in our heritage, our his(hers)tories!!! ❤❤❤
@SunshinePip
27 күн бұрын
❤
@Tavieme
Ай бұрын
Well, now we know why you’re such a bad ass🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 keep educating us, baby girl💋
@jellybelly7629
Ай бұрын
Reliance on self is very important. God bless you for sharing your stories with us!!! God bless🕊💜🕊
@christinelaloba8869
Ай бұрын
😮❤
@janeeyre1990
Ай бұрын
⚠️ [TW: family abuse] ⚠️ . . . . . I don't know much about my family history because of generations of abuse, with multiple murderers and sex offenders. And both my grandfather and grandmother neglected and abused my mom. It is too dangerous to go to my extended family to ask for information about our history. I imagine that there must have been other women like my mom in our family tree. Ones who tried to stop the abuse or break the cycle. Ones who couldn't escape but tried to protect the children and other women within the abusive system. And my mom did break the cycle of violent abuse, and now that I am her full-time caregiver, as she is disabled, we are learning together how to set boundaries and not accept psychological abuse. We're rewriting our history.
@timothyrothrock4173
2 ай бұрын
Great to learn family history. I found how and also why my ancestors got to the US. And I'll never be able to hold a candle to those people...
@indriadrayton1132
Ай бұрын
WOWWWWW
@jamiesmith3837
Жыл бұрын
Priceless!!
@Luna-jk9de
2 ай бұрын
sold off as a bride to her fathers best friend... wtf.
@Shelbzz
Ай бұрын
Sis, I didn’t know what the Belgian Congo was and I looked it up. So many African countries met a dire fate at the hands of colonists. 😢
@AshaSelfsDemoFilms
2 ай бұрын
The men probably thought they left - 'for no good reason' 🤦🏾♀️
@junoantaresofficial
27 күн бұрын
The way that man's hands are on her shoulders makes me feel icky. I don't know anything about them, so I could be absolutely wrong, but my gut just says those are possessive, hurtful hands. Again, I could absolutely be wrong, that's just the vibe I get.
@diverstalent
2 ай бұрын
Just wow
@kratoscraken5614
Күн бұрын
Unless it was spiritual conception it was the men to👈👈👈👈👈
@Unlike230
24 күн бұрын
Wow you look like your grandma
@aishmalik101
11 ай бұрын
You don’t talk about your dads side of the family?
@NurjahanBoulden
11 ай бұрын
I have it in the longer caption on the other platforms.. My dad’s Scottish American. I was just sharing where our belly dance comes from in this video. I have another video where I do the breakdown with my dad’s family too..but his is easier. He’s white 🤷🏽♀️
@aishmalik101
11 ай бұрын
@@NurjahanBoulden oh so the south Asian name comes from your mums side?
@NurjahanBoulden
11 ай бұрын
@@aishmalik101 It’s actually random-my mom just chose Muslim names that she liked. My sister’s name is Jilan, which I think is Turkish, and my brother has a Persian name. My mom loves powerful women, so she named me after Nurjahan, but it has nothing to do with our heritage (just to make things more confusing). My family is very matriarchal, so the men generally don’t have a lot of input with the culture, names, etc. I think it’s mostly bc there were so few positive male role models present for my mom, her mom, and her mom’s mom. The women raised everyone…so even though my dad was present, my mom raised us with her culture, and named us whatever names she liked (although my dad did have veto power if he really didn’t like something 😂)
@aishmalik101
11 ай бұрын
@@NurjahanBoulden oh I thought it came from your baloch side (the balochistan that is present in west Pakistan and Iran)?
@NurjahanBoulden
11 ай бұрын
@@aishmalik101 my mom’s side is part Baloch, but they’re from the Iranian side of Balochistan, so they don’t identify with Pakistan. My mom’s dad (who I also didn’t get a chance to talk about in this video) was Ismaili, and everyone argues about where he was “originally” from. I don’t talk about it publicly bc it’ll start fights in our family 😅
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