‘The Stoop’ explores conversations black people have in private

As journalists in public media, Hana Baba and Leila Day are used to being among the only black people in newsrooms.

So when they met five years ago at KALW in San Francisco, they found themselves having water-cooler conversations about subjects such as beauty, mental health and media representations of black people, prompted by articles they read in publications geared toward black audiences.

They shared common ground as black women but found that their perspectives also differed. Day is African-American, and Baba is Sudanese-American.