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Diahann Carroll/The United Order of Tents · Black Girl Interrupted Podcast

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Black Girl. Y'all already know how. Y'all already know how that girl.
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What's up? Everybody Happy Wednesday? I am so glad and happy to see
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y'all. It is wellness Wednesday, so I hope everyone's having a beautiful day.
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Let me start off by saying, welcome back to another episode of Black
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Girl to y'all have to forgive me. Let me get my microphone. There
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we go. All right, So y'all, welcome back to another episode of
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Black Girl interrupted. Y'all already know it's your girl, asked your favorite girlfriend,
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the five Ful Baby, bringing y'all another episode of Black Girl interrupted.
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So before I even start off, let me say this. I just want
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to say thank you to each and every person that reached out to me.
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For those that do not know, my daughter's father passed away one week could
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go today. He passed away last Wednesday, and I just appreciate everyone reaching
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out to me. I appreciate everyone praying over my daughter. I appreciate everyone
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still contacting me asking me how my daughter is doing. So I wanted to
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just start off by saying, thank you guys so much. Keep praying for
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my daughter because this is unfamiliar to her. I understand wholeheartedly because I was
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here three years ago when my father passed away, and just every day,
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she just takes it one day at a time, you know, and I
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pour into her. I'm here for her whenever she needs me, she needs
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to talk, she needs to cry, I'm here, and I've told her,
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you know, out of everything. In the midst of all the confusion,
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I hope she finds just a little bit of piece of knowing her father
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is no longer here suffering because he suffered for ten years, so he is
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now finally at rest. And as I stayed in to him, Thank you
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so much, Avery for leaving me a piece of you. You help me
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carry up for twenty one years. You can rest because I got her the
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rest of the way. So I'm trying not to get emotional, but thank
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y'all so much for just even checking on me. Thank you for the continuous
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prayers for my daughter. She's gonna be all right, I promise y'all.
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She she's gonna be good as long as she's got me, as long as
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God continues to allow me to have breath in my body. I'm here with
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my baby all the way to the end. We got this together. So
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Jamari, your mom loves you. I got your back, and we're rocking
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into the wheels falling off. So I just wanted to start up, I
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say in that, So thank you to everybody again for the continuous love,
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of continuous support. Just keep praying for my daughter. Like I say,
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this is new, it's unfamiliar. This is a new experience for her.
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So every day is a different day, and I just I pray with her.
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So but uh so, as we continue to move on again, y'all
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welcome back to another episode of Black Girl. Interrupted. As I stated,
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y'all know it's your girl, ash Baby, I'm coming to bring y'all a
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nice topic. We are still celebrating National Women's History Month. So I found
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two women, well one woman, and well three women who I just felt
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like do not get the recognition that they deserve. So tonight we are talking
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about the beautiful Diane Carrol and we're also gonna be talking about the United Order
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of Tenths. I know y'all are like, who are like what who is
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that? But here we go. But y'all already know today is Wednesday.
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I do apologize that I have not been posting my wellness Wednesday quotes. But
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y'all know I do my mental health check ins at the start of every episode
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because I want to know how you guys are feeling. How are you feeling
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mentally, how are you feeling emotionally, How are you feeling physically? How
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are you feeling spiritually? What can I do to help you get over the
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hump? You know, because I've been in that dark space and I want
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to be the person to help guide you back into the light because we can't
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celebrate you in the dark way we can celebrate you and see you in the
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light. So you guys already know before I start off any episode, I
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always have to do a mental health check in. I always play something that's
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motivational, something that's encouraging, something something that's empowering, because again, I
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don't know where everybody's what everybody's going through, and where they're going. But
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if anything that I do with Black Girl Interrupted helps get you over the hump,
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then I've done exactly what God has wanted me to do. So hey
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to my sister, my sister Jule, she says she's doing great. I'm
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so happy for that. Javera are happy Easter. Happy Easter, My girl.
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That's my baby sister. She says. I love you, she says,
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I'm so proud of you. I appreciate that let me because y'all always
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find a way to make me cry. And I think y'all really do this
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on purpose, but I appreciate y'all. Black Girl Interrupted would not be where
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it is today if it wasn't for the love and support of y'all. I
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cannot wait for y'all to see the beautiful things that are rolling out with Black
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Girl Interrupted. I just I really cannot wait. I'm excited about everything that's
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going on. The website is now up. I will post a link down
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at the bottom, but the website is up. There will be news later
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letters that are going out, so you guys will be in form monthly.
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You know, if you sign up for the email list, you will get
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a monthly newsletter that will talk about what I will be talking about in the
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in the coming months. So like for the month of April, which is
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Sexual Assault Awareness Month, also autism, I will be dedicating one specific episode
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to recognize and celebrate autism. I have four beautiful friends who are the mothers
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to autistic children, and it's so many. It's so many stigmas around autism
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that I want to clear the narrative on that. I want you guys to
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know that autistic children, yes, they're different, but they're special. You
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know, God created them exactly the way he wanted them to be. So
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I will be dedicating one show it will be strictly about autism things that we
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can do, so I will be looking and getting some resources. But those
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are just some of the things that will go out on the newsletter every month
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to let you know the topics that we're gonna have for the month. It
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will also give you the option if you have if you want to submit something
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anonymous. If I you know, we're gonna do polls. But like I
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say, y'all, it's so many amazing things that are coming for Black Girl
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Interrupted. I also want to let y'all know merchandise is on the way.
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I do not have a specific date, but look for it around the summer.
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So there will be Black Girl Interrupted merchandise that will be shirts for men
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and for women. Just gonna start something soft before I launch into anything else,
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before I do socks and anything, So we're just gonna start with shirts.
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But I just really cannot wait for you guys to see everything that I
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have going for a Black Girl Interrupted. You guys, I promise will not
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be disappointed. But again, I love you guys so so so much.
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I appreciate all the continuous love, all the support that y'all show me for
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Black Girl Interrupted. Again, I'm grateful. I'm humble, and I would
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not be where I am today if it wasn't for the love and support of
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you guys. So give yourselves a round of applause because you guys rock like
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you guys are so amazing. Thank you for loving me on the good days.
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Thank you for loving me on the bad days. Thank you for just
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believing in me. Thank you for just seeing my vision and just being a
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part of the journey to help get Black Girl Interrupted where it's supposed to be.
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I promise, y'all. I love y'all so much. I can't get
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emotional, Baby, I got a hold it together because we're talking about,
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like I say, tonight, we're talking about the fabulous Diane Carol, and
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I'm gonna introduce to y'all the United Order of Tents and how they came to
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be beautiful, beautiful, beautiful beautiful. So we have a few comments Brittany,
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She says, I'm so proud of you. Let me say this to
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you. Thank you so much for taking my ideas and bringing them into fruition
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with my website. Thank you so much for everything that you've done. Thank
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you for just being you. You know what I'm saying. And we did
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it. We did it, you know, And there's thank you for being
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a part of the journey. Thank you again for putting in all the hard
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work in the long hours of getting my website up and running. But again,
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y'all shout out to Britney Brown aka BB aka CEO b Bright, who
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is my assistant and she's just done so many phenomenal things. So I definitely
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want to give you your roses on that. She says. Let's go,
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b G. I all right, we going. April is going up.
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You know, I can't put it out there, but y'all know April is
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going up, and I can't wait. That was my boy d White,
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right, Patty Way. Love to see your baby, and love to see
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you, Brittany, and you're welcome, she says. Thank you for being
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the light that you are. When you sit in the dark for so long,
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you want to come into the light. And you want to pull others
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up with you, so you're more than welcome for that. There's my girl
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de niece. Hey, fam, good, good to see you tonight.
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Thank you for tuning in again to another episode A Black Girl interrupted. So
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today's Wednesday. I know I normally do my shows on Tuesdays and Thursdays,
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but last night I had to just kind of step away for a moment.
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I had to check on my on my daughter. So again for those just
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tuning in, my daughter's father passed away on last Wednesday, so I was
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thinking everybody for you know, checking on me, checking on my daughter,
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making sure everything was good with her. Just keep praying for Like I said,
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this is it's rough. It's difficult, uh, but she's okay.
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Just one day at a time, and I told her, don't overwhelm myself.
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The first year is always the hardest, you know, and it's the
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when you lose a parent, especially when you feel like parents are going to
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be here forever and they're not, you know. So y'all just keep praying
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for my daughter. Thank y'all for everything that y'all do. Like I really
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just can't say it enough. I'm so humbled, I'm so grateful, and
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I give it all to him up there. I give everything to God because
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He's I could go on and on and tell y'all how great God has been
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to me these last three and a half years. Three years. Yeah,
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I could just go on and on. But today it's Wednesday, and I
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do apologize. I have not been posting my wellness Wednesday post but dropping the
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comments. How are you guys feeling today? It is Wednesday, it's hump
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day or two days away from the weekend. I love you whatever it is
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that you're going through. I'm here with you. I walk with you,
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I hold your hand with you. We're on this journey together. We got
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this together. So before I even get started, y'all know, I always
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play something motivational, something inspirational, something empowering, something uplifting, just to
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kind of help you get over the humps. So before we jump into this
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nice conversation, let me go ahead and roll this video and then we get
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We're gonna get right into the conversation at hand. Success can be a lonely
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road. It can be a tough road. It can be a hard road.
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It's not for everyone. Those who follow others like Sheep will never know
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who they truly are. Only those who follow their own path can discover their
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true potential. Those who fly along have the strongest wings. Those who walk
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along have the strongest direction. The rest will always be in need of others
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for their survival. They will always need attention, need recognition to survive.
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I am at peace of law, needing no attention, no recognition, and
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still I thrive. I'm not saying those who have support are weak. I'm
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not saying you must go at it alone to gain strength. This is just
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for those who have fought battles a law, those who have felt like they
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don't fit in, those who have never had support in anything they do.
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All of those who feel no one believes in them. You don't need them
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to believe in you. If you believe in you, you don't need their
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support. If you've got your own back. The best part is when you
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truly live the life you want to live, When you speak your truth,
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when you embraceful you are, then you gain real respect and real love.
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People love those who have the guts to be themselves, those who have the
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courage to follow their heart. Why it's rare. Why because most people wish
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they could do the same, show them the way, keep going, believe
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in yourself. It will all come good and yet, and when it does,
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you won't have only inspired yourself to be more, you will have inspired
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so many others. I had to learn to fight alone, and because of
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that, I am strong alone. I am strong full stop. I developed
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inner strength that can't be broken. I am unbreakable because of the pain.
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I am strong because of the struggle. I have character most will never know.
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I appreciate others more than ever. I have more compassion than ever.
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I had to go deep into the darkness. Now I have more depth.
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Now I can see clearer. I had to face huge internal challenges. Now
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I can defeat any challenge. I will destroy every challenge. I am proud
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who I have become. I am proud I have overcome. I am proud
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I kept going. I am proud of who I am, who I have
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become. I am proud I stay true to myself because now I can live
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as myself with respect from others and most importantly, pride and respect from myself.
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I don't know who needed to hear that message today, but that was
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for everybody. You know, even me. You know, believe in you,
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show up for you, regardless of anybody that doesn't show up for you.
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You just keep showing up for you, and don't never give up and
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wait your turn. Never view your life and compare it to somebody else's,
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because everyone's racist different. Everyone will get to the finish line. Some get
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there further than up. You know, let me say that some make it
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to the finish line faster than others. But that's okay. It doesn't mean
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that's not your time. You know. I look at Black Girl Interrupted,
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and like I just told my sister today, I'm moving right on time with
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where I wanted to be with my podcast. I waited my turn, I
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believed in me, and I stayed consistent regardless if one person watched, if
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ten people watched, one hundred people, if no people watch, Always short
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for you because there's someone on the sideline that's watching you, and it's clapping
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for you. So don't worry about that. Keep going, keep going,
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keep going, even if you got a rock alone, it's okay. Just
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still stay true to yourself, all right. So we jumping into tonight's conversation.
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Oh thank you, missus Denise, She says, peace be unto him.
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Absolutely miss the Nie. He was sick and he suffered for ten years.
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So finally he just you know, he was tired and he just said,
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you know, I'm ready. So we had to respect that. There
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were a lot of decisions that were made, how but that's okay. He's
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resting, he's not in pain. He'll forever before the seven. So hashtag
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to you, Avery Jay Wilson. Keep watching over your daughter. I got
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her, all right, So don't forget. Keep dropping in the comments.
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Let me know how you're feeling. Like I say, today it's Wednesday as
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well as Wednesday is hump Day. We're two days away from the weekend.
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Keep going, y'all are doing a phenomenal job. I see you. I'm
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proud of you. If no one told you that today, I'm proud of
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you and I love you. God bless you. All Right, so we
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are getting into the nice conversations. So as we're still going and celebrating National
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Women's History Month, I found two women, well I'm so sorry, a
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group of women and then one specific woman who I wanted to pay homage to,
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who I wanted to give flowers to. So I want to start off
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with the United Order of Tents. I bet y'all are like, what is
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that? Who are they? I've never heard of them. Some people have
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and some people have not. So The United Order of Tents is actually an
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organization for African American church women that was founded in Norfolk, Virginia in eighteen
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sixty seven by Annetta M. Lane and Harriet R. Taylor. They were
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former slaves that wanted to start this because they wanted to care for the sick
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and the elderly. They wanted to help those in need and to bury the
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dead. So historically the group also helped provide loans to members when banks refused
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to give them loans. The Tents also helped to provide shelter, food,
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and healthcare some people in their communities. I selected them when I was reading
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up about this, I said, we don't hear too much about some of
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our past historians, past icons, because that's what I call them. And
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these two ladies did phenomenal things. Their chapter now has members I believe of
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fifty I believe it's fifty thousand members in the United Order of Tents. Again,
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this started in Norfolk, Virginia, two women who wanted to help the
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community. They wanted to help get loans because during that time, white things
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weren't giving money to African American people, so they wanted to help out in
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the community. Families didn't have money to bury their loved ones, so the
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United Order of Tents came in to help very loved ones. They provided food,
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tea excuse me, oh, I was about to sneeze, y'all,
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And they also provided shelter healthcare to people in the community. So I selected
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them because again, Miss Denise is like, wow, you know, and
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this is why you know. And Miss Denise, I'm glad you said that,
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and I'm so glad you asked me that question on the last episode,
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because these are hidden figures that we don't learn about in school. You know,
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these are people that they don't teach us about in school. And again,
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please don't take this. We know about Martin Luther King, we know
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about Rosa Parks, we know about Malcolm X, we know about Mary uh
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excuse me, we know about Bessie Coleman. We know about them. But
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I want to recognize those aren't those hidden figures, the ones that don't get
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the recognition, the ones that you have to really sit down and dig and
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do your research to learn about who these women are, or who these men
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are, who they're this group of people are, and the things that they've
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done to help shape Black history. So that's why I wanted to pull the
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United Order of Tents because a lot of like you, miss Denise, you
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were like, wow, you know, maybe you never heard of them.
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I had never heard of them, you know, until I was a scroll
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and I was like, you know, I want some ending figures that I
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want to talk about. So when I got to reading and I was like,
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these ladies did awesome things for the community and we didn't know about it.
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We know about Rosa park Citty, but we also know that Claudee Covin
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was actually the first woman for the bus boycott. They just didn't utilize her
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face because she was fifteen years old, she was pregnant, unmarried, She
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was not the face. So I'm gonna always dig it deep down into my
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black history bag and pull these hidden figures and put them on the forefront.
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So this is why I chose the United Order of Tents. I can't wait
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for y'all to hear the other icons that I selected to talk about this month
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because these people, oh my goodness, let me just brag on us for
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just a moment, let me just brag on us. We as African Americans
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have done some amazing things that we do not get the recognition for. So
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it's up to me, it's up to y'all to bring them to the light.
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You'll get what I'm saying because we don't know about this. This is
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a part out of our history that we didn't know about. You understand,
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we didn't know about this stuff. We didn't know the greatness that African Americans
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had that whites took credit for, because that's not what's taught in history books.
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They want us to forget our history. They want us to just wipe
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it away. No, I, as long as I have breath in my
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body, will never allow us as the people to forget our history. Never
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ever. If there's a hidden figure that y'all want me to talk about,
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send it to me and we could do a show about that hidden figure,
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about somebody you feel needs to get their flowers in their recognition. Whether they're
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deceased, whether they're still alive, it doesn't matter. I want to give
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flowers to our history because we are some phenomenal people and can't nobody tell me
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different that we are not phenomenal. They cannot say black people didn't shape history.
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We did music, movies, TVs. Because when we talk about Diane
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Carroll, Diane Carroll was the first African American woman to have her own sitcom
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and not be stereotyped. Okay, So yeah, I gotta give homage to
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the beautiful Diane Carroll aka Dominie Devil Rode that was on Dynasty. So we're
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talking about her tonight. But the United w tents, like I said,
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these ladies did phenomenal things in the community. So Jules says facts, Miss
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Denise says at fifteen, Miss Denise, go back and look at my episode
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on Clodeke Covin. Clodee Covin was fifteen years old at the time she was
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arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman. Everyone thought
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it was Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was the face of the bus boycott because
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Rosa Parks was married, she was a very soft spoken woman, she was
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light skinned, so that's who they selected as the face of the bus boycott
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in Montgomery, Alabama from nineteen sixty five to nineteen sixty six. But I
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had to give Claudee covin her roses because she deserved it. But yes,
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ma'am, at fifteen years old, she was pregnant, she was unmarried,
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she was a dark skinned woman, she was very combative. So and just
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I want to say, what was it. Oh, just a few years
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ago, she was just taking off of probation and she's well off in her
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eighties now who and she's now living in New York. So yeah, go
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back and check out that episode on Claude Cole. And I got it little
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emotional because I'm just like, man, we as black women, like we
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are sh y'all, we're strong man. We go through so much, we
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do so much, and we don't get the recognition that we deserve. So
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I wanted to go back and give that to her. So here's a little
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intro about the United Order of Tens, and we're gonna jump back into the
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conversation. Let me get back over here. Here we go. All right,
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let's go, y'all. And then what says is an organization you may
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never wrong? Video, y'all, Here we go. History is Hidden no
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More Today was a historical marker unveiled along Norfolk Historic Church Street. It tells
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a story of the United Order of Tents, a national organization that was founded
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right here in Hampton Roads after the Civil War. Ten underside. Regina Moldley
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joins us now with this story Regina, oh, Tom and Lenna. The
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word tent and the name of the organization is a reference to the tents that
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were used to shelter runaway slaves. Over the years, the tent evolved to
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provide shelter from generational systemic Two years after the Civil War, former slaves formed
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a Norfolk based benevolent organization which provided shelter from the lynching era to Jim Crow
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to the turbulence nineteen sixties and more. This is one organization that has really
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done everything that they could do to help black people, from the times of
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Jim Crow and the underground railroad to present town. The nineteen fifth Church Street
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was the only place in Norfolk where a black person could own a business,
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but that didn't mean a local bank would give them a loan. That is
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where the United Order of Tents stepped in. We offered loans and for individuals
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that was avis to back homes and individuals that need money. One hundred and
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fifty five years later, the state of Virginia recognized the Order with a historical
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marker outside the organization's headquarters. A few in the crowd represent the next generation
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of leadership the black community, women that are doing really amazing work within the
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community. Jackie Glass represents Norfolk in the General Assembly. She is working to
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build new tents to offer protection from crime, poverty, and other social ills.
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When we talk about people that are nortized, there's no umbrella. There's
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no umbrella that doesn't hit them in a way that it hurts now facet of
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their lives that's not impacted by consistent minoritization of them. Former slaves. Ananda
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m Lane of Norfolk and Harriet Taylor of Hampton are the founders of the United
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Order of Tents. I have more information on this organization on wavy dot com.
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Virgina Moblae tell on your side. Can we just kind of take that
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in for just a moment, Like I just I just want to take that
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in for just a moment, because one hundred and fifty five years ago this
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organization was founded and it still goes on in present d I just want to
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take that in because two women, two women that were former slaves, made
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it possible for black people to get money to open up business. Two women.
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If we not phenomenal, baby, I don't know what else to say,
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because we do some phenomenal things when we come together. Do y'all understand
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the power we hold? I don't think y'all really truly understand the power that
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resides in us, that our ancestors set it forth for us to do.
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I just got chills because I just I'm proud to be black? Can I
30:38
say that? Can I? And this is in no way a racist annotation,
30:47
But I love being black. I love the phenomenal things that we've done
30:52
to shape history. I love the things that we continue to do to shape
30:56
history of how now we're building our own tables. I love the fact we're
31:03
now kicking indoors and we're making room at tables that we were never invited to.
31:10
I want every person give yourself a round of applause. Because we got
31:15
the strength from our ancestors. You understand, from our grandparents, from our
31:19
aunts, our mothers, our cousins. We continue to make moves, we
31:27
continue to make people respect us and understand that we don't have to be invited
31:33
to your table, because we're gonna build our own. Oh, I love
31:37
that. I love that. I just I think we're amazing. I think
31:47
we're phenomenal. We can't be duplicated. We're the original. You know,
31:56
we're the blueprint. And again, we can't be duplicated. You can't copy
32:02
us another thing. You'll never ever be able to take our history away from
32:08
us because we continue to make moves, we continue to make magic. We
32:14
continue to build and build and build and build and build. This is what
32:19
we continue to do. And I'm proud of us and the things that we
32:23
do. In the entrepreneurs, these beautiful black entrepreneurs men and women that I'm
32:29
seeing that are doing phenomenal things. If you are an entrepreneurs, I don't
32:34
care what it is that you do. I don't care if you shall sell
32:37
shoelacers, I don't care if you pick up cans. I am proud of
32:40
you. You'll be the best at whatever it is that you do. That's
32:46
what you do. You show up for you who cares if they don't invite
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you, You invite yourself. You show up. You build that table,
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You build the bridge for us to all crossover. You get what I'm saying.
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If we could stop viewing each other as a competition. Maybet we would
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be so phenomenal. We would be amazing if we stop viewing one another as
33:13
a competition, and if we quit gatekeeping information, we could rebuild Black Wall
33:21
Street. We could build our own schools, We could have our own hospitals,
33:24
we could have our own public libraries, we could have our own grocery
33:29
stores. But some of y'all are still stuck in the crabs in a bucket
33:31
mentality. But you have these two beautiful women, Harriet Taylor and in Thatta
33:39
Lane, two women that came together to help out a community, not themselves,
33:47
but a community. Why can't we be more like that? I just
33:54
I want us to be better. I want greatness for us because we are
34:00
phenomenal we have. Let me tell you something, God created us and perfectly
34:05
perfect. We are so wonderful. Oh my goodness, I just I just
34:10
have to brag on us. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to get
34:13
sidetrack, but I just, I just I had to brag on us for
34:15
just a moment. I just had to give us our accolades real quick.
34:20
So missus, Denie says, I'm taking notes. I got you, sister,
34:23
I got you, big sister. I promise I do. Hey,
34:27
baby, sister, there's my sister, Marie. God to say you baby,
34:30
I missed you. H Miss Denie says, Oh, yes, so
34:35
did I miss Jules says. And this is what we need to get back
34:38
to doing. We need our own black banking systems that will look out for
34:42
us without all the red teeth. That that's what I'm talking about. You
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had two women who were slaves who came up with who had an idea and
34:55
said this is what we're gonna do, and they proceeded with And here we
35:00
are one hundred and fifth. Let me say this again, y'all, one
35:06
hundred and fifty five years later. We still have grandparents that are still here
35:13
that are one hundred and one hundred and two. So one hundred and fifty
35:17
five years was not that long ago. Slavery was not that long ago,
35:22
y'all. But what Jules said, we gotta get back to doing this.
35:28
We need our own black banking systems that will look out for us without all
35:31
the red tea and be bad. We could really truly rebuild Black Wall Street.
35:40
It's not a hard thing for us to do. If we could just
35:44
come together like these two women and rebuild our community. Do y'all realize how
35:52
powerful we would be? And mind you, y'all, we only make up
35:59
fourteen percent of the population Blacks fourteen percent, okay, only four We only
36:07
represent fourteen percent in the United States. Miss Denie says, this is what
36:15
we do in this strange land. I need you to say that one more
36:19
time, Jule, missus Denie says, I hear you, because they do
36:25
give us a hassle when we're trying to be business owners. They do do
36:30
that to us. But if we had our own banking systems, we wouldn't
36:35
have that problem. If we had our own grocery stores, if we had
36:39
libraries, and if we stopped relying so much on the internet, our children
36:45
would know our history because we would get back to reading books. This is
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why I selected the United Order of Tens, because these ladies here, even
36:55
though they're gone, still their legacy still continues on. In twenty twenty four,
37:02
here we go, we're still talking about the United Order of Tents again.
37:07
Everyone that's just now tuning in, welcome back to another episode of Black
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Girl interrupted. Of course it's your girl, Ash and tonight I'm continuing on
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excuse me, National Women's History Month, and tonight I'm celebrating the United Order
37:22
of Tents as well as Diane Carroll. But right now we're talking about the
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United Order of Tents. But here's another little piece of the United Order of
37:30
Tints. And we're going to jump back into the conversation. Here we go,
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and then what says is an organization you may never heard about, have
37:37
heard about. Its impact has been felt for more than one hundred and fifty
37:42
years. The United Order of Ten started as a secret society by two women
37:46
who were former slaves and began right here in Norfolk and still thrives today.
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We do our best to continue her vision, the vision of former slave Vanetta
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m Laine, whose portrait hangs in the Norfolk apartment complex that bears her name.
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Co founder of the oldest benefit society of black women in the country,
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the United Order of Tents. A calvary cemetery, an angel watches over the
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grave of a woman who spent a lifetime watching over others African American women.
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Cherrell Christian is the complex property manager and a member of the Order, a
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group still active, still serving others in Knee Annette On Lane, and that's
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where we get the name from. They had tents on this plantation, and
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they had a tent for the homeless. They had tents for the orphanage.
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Elaine started the Christian Group with another former slave, Harriet Taylor, in eighteen
38:45
sixty seven, to extend her people a badly needed helping hand. It was
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the end of slavery and black people had no resources, no power, no
38:53
support. A Colorado article in nineteen twelve states she stood forth as a shell
39:00
for thousands of poor and weak people of her race and created an ennobling atmosphere
39:05
about them. President of the Virginia North Carolina District Lodi's Gloston. There was
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a lot of fear even after the slaves were free. Remember they didn't know
39:15
where to go. The women cared for the elderly and sick, provided food
39:20
for the needy, and even shelter so the sisters were trained to take care
39:23
of the women take care of the babies and especially the children. In eighteen
39:29
ninety four, the organization established the rest Haven Home in Hampton with sixteen beds
39:35
for senior citizens. It operated until two thousand and two, keeping the group
39:39
a secret back then served as a form of protection. Women back in eighteen
39:45
sixty seven, they had very little, but were able to come together with
39:51
their twenty five cents or ten cents a dudes, whatever they could, and
39:57
they they boomed into the organsation as we have it today, where they've branched
40:01
out to include mentorship and scholarships while holding true to the original mission caring for
40:07
the elderly what they do well an owner here at Annetta M. Lane Apartments
40:15
and making sure that these are their golden years and they should cherish where they
40:19
live. We have found there and that makes us feel special. And back
40:24
in the eighteen sixties, in order to get the organization incorporated, the founder
40:29
sought the help of two abolitionists who believed in their cause. You can't tell
40:42
me that's not greatness. I refuse to believe that we are not green.
40:50
One hundred and fifty five years later, they're still carrying on the vision that
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Annetta Lane and Harriet Taylor started. As you heard them say, it started
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out as a secret society because white people couldn't know that they were doing things,
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that two black women were doing things to help their community. And to
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see it still resonate to date and present date speaks volumes this lets us know
41:27
that whatever you put your mind to, you can accomplish anything. Let these
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two ladies, these two icons, these two visionaries, resonate forever in your
41:42
soul and your spirit. Two women had an idea of what they could do
41:49
to help with their community, and they brought it to a fuition and it
41:53
still carries on today. Shout out to Annetta Lane and Harriet Taylor are two
42:02
hidden figures. Oh woo that. Let me take a deep brup because man,
42:17
they just had the faith of a mustard seed, that's all. And
42:22
look at where it is and they still continue on the vision even today.
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That these ladies started on a plantation. Intense, baby, if you can't,
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if y'all could just feel what I'm feeling right now in my spirit.
42:46
We did great, We did some wonderful things, and we still continue to
42:52
make magic. Hey, honey, I hope you're having a good night at
42:57
work. Ah. So the United Order of Tents another one of Black girl
43:05
interrupted hidden figures. Yes, yes, those ladies phenomenal. But now let's
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move on to another phenomenal woman in Black history. Be bed. Let me
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tell y'all about Miss Diane Carroll. Miss Diane Caroll, where do I even
43:29
begin honey to give her her roses. Although Diane Carroll has now passed on,
43:37
she's still eye kind in my eyes. So you asked, who is
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Diane Carroll born Carol Diane Johnson. She was an American actress, singer,
43:50
model, and activists. Mm hmm, okay, it's Diane Carroll. We're
43:55
gonna learn about you a little bit tonight and we're gonna give you your flowers
43:59
tonight. So here we go. Who is Diane Carroll? One of those
44:07
conversations about women in the industry suggested that there was a golden era for women.
44:15
It was sometime in the war up into the fifties where there were a
44:21
lot of meaty rolls for women. That's how it gets framed. Women who
44:27
suggested this, well, this is why I want to ask you about it.
44:30
So you know. So there is there is a TV show on right
44:36
now called Feud. Is anyone watching that? Well, it looks at the
44:43
feud between Betty Davis and Joan Crawford, and part of that part of the
44:49
storyline is they used to have roles. Now they don't have them anymore,
44:53
partly because they're aging out, partly because male leads are take making over what
45:00
used to be the roles. The basic question is was there a golden era
45:05
back there for black women actors? Ever, no, it's not. I
45:15
couldn't think of any period of time, even when we thought it might come
45:20
through. When Dorothy Dandridge was alive, and I think I didn't see the
45:28
first film that she did. I think it was called Right Road. But
45:32
she she was so beautiful on screen, and so she played the lead in
45:39
Poor gam Bess and I guess Carmen Jones, who was that? I don't
45:46
recall, But no, there was was that Dorothy as well. Yes,
45:51
it's pretty bad when you're looking around for a memory and you're going to be
45:55
eighty two years old, and I don't I don't recall any period of time
46:06
when we were afraid that we might be overbooked. Just didn't happen. I
46:17
just wanted to give you all a little glimpse of Diane Carroll. Diane Carroll
46:21
was actually speaking on black women in movie roles, but many of you don't
46:27
know that. I just love this woman and she was just extremely beautiful.
46:36
So Diane Carroll, Uh, she was in the musical. Carmen Jones,
46:42
she was in poor gain Best. A lot of y'all remember her from Julia,
46:46
for which she did receive a Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star Female,
46:52
and a lot of people didn't know that that her series. So Julia
46:55
was the very first series on American television to start a Black woman in a
47:01
non stereotypical role. She was a nurse. And for those that I believe
47:07
it's on Touby if I'm not mistaken, I believe Julia is on Tooby.
47:12
I think that's where I saw it. They may have taken it off,
47:14
but to know that we had these beautiful, phenomenal black women that paved the
47:22
way for our black actresses that we see to date. They paved the way
47:25
for the Halle Berrys, the Angela Bassetts, excuse me, the my mind
47:35
just literally went blank. But they paid the role for the up and coming
47:38
you know, the East of Rays, the Taraji p Henson's, the Fantasias,
47:45
these beautiful black women door, the Dandridge. You know you're going you
47:47
look at these women that opened the door for us, but didn't get the
47:53
recognition that they deserved until after they were gone. So at the time when
48:00
Diane Carroll passed away she was eighty six years old. Prior to her passing
48:06
away, she did another interview where she talked about getting into acting and what
48:10
was it like for her. So here we go, and then I want
48:15
to get back into the conversation because I want to brag a little bit more
48:16
about Diane Carroll, because this woman was absolutely freaking amazing. I studied singing
48:29
from the time I was in I think elementary school really I started, and
48:37
then I want a scholarship to the Metropolitan from music and art. It never
48:50
occurred to me that I should be an actress, and then someone was kind
49:05
enough to explain to me that acting and singing are really primarily the same thing,
49:12
and that if you are performing a song, you're acting. So I
49:20
began to study, and eventually I went to act a studio for a while,
49:29
Lee Strasburg was holding classes them, and I think that was my first
49:35
encounter with the fact that I I wanted to pursue it very seriously. And
49:39
did you, although it is the same as you said, did you love
49:44
acting as much as singing? I grew to love acting as much as singing,
49:50
if not more, because with singing you're not as nude. There is
49:58
nothing more nude. I mean, it's like walking in front of the audience
50:04
with not one stitch of clothing and making them forget that you're not wearing a
50:09
stitch of clothing, but that you're there to deliver something that we can all
50:16
enjoy. That I enjoy giving and I hope you enjoy taking. So I
50:22
think that's what happened to me. With the acting and the singing. There
50:35
was more freedom the uh. With the acting, I wasn't tied to a
50:38
melody. I had made my own melody with the acting. And the reality
50:45
is, at least from my perspective, is that many singers have not successfully
50:52
had good acting careers. But you were able to do that. You made
50:58
that transition very well well. Fortunately the Broadway theater had a lot to do
51:02
with that Broadway musicals because I was quite young when I did House of Flowers.
51:07
True and Capote actually said when I auditioned for House of Flowers, he
51:14
said, you're too young. I said, with the characters fifteen and I
51:17
was, I don't know, maybe eighteen at the time, and he said,
51:22
go out in the world and live. I've never met a fifteen year
51:25
old as naive. And that really insulted me. I didn't feel naive,
51:30
but if I was giving the impression that I was naive. So I came
51:35
to California, flew into Los Angeles for the film Carmen Jones. Like,
51:46
when I go back and I look at these interviews with Diane Carroll, such
51:52
grease and elegance in every interview, very soft spoken but very loud at the
52:00
same time, when I tell you, when I go back and I look
52:04
at some of those old Dynasty episodes where she portrayed Dominique Deverro. She was
52:08
that no nonsense type woman where she said, you know, I'm gonna do
52:14
this, my weed, like this is what we're gonna do. And I
52:17
loved and respected her. I think one of my greatest, one of the
52:22
best roles was a lot of and I and I should have played that clip
52:27
was when Dwayne and Whitley got married on a Different World and Diane Carroll played
52:31
Whitley's mother and she uh was like, no, going on with the weg
52:36
going on with the wed and she don't want Whitley to marry Dwayne. That
52:39
was phenomenal. And then also her role in eaves By You you know as
52:44
playing one of the voodoo witch voodoo priests. I'm so sorry, but Diane
52:50
Carroll just did some amazing things. When you go back and you look at
52:55
uh, let me go back. So Diane Carroll was a founding member of
53:00
the Celebrity Action Council, which was a volunteer group of celebrity women who served
53:05
the women's outreach of the Los Angeles Mission, working with women excuse me,
53:09
and rehabilitation from problems with alcohol, drugs, or prostitution. And she helped
53:15
to form the group along with other female television personalities. And that even goes
53:21
on to excuse me, give her her accolades. No, we're not gonna
53:24
talk about how many times she's been married. She had been married four times,
53:29
but who cares. In twenty thirteen, she excuse me, she did
53:36
talk about being the first African American woman nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
53:43
She also went on to excuse me. She was on Grey's Anatomy. She
53:50
was in the Five Heartbeats. Do y'all remember when she slapped the Big Red.
53:52
That was like a classic scene in that movie when Big Red came to
53:58
her at her husband's funer and said, oh, you can call me if
54:00
you ever need me, and she pulled them glasses down and slapped his face
54:05
and told him to get out. I love that part. Oh, but
54:10
she has done some of the most wonderful things. Like I said, Julia
54:15
was like her breakout role, because again that was she was the first African
54:17
American actress to have her own television series who did not play a domestic worker.
54:24
She paid the way for that and because of that role, she wanted
54:28
to Golden Global Award for Best TV Star Female for its first year. So
54:34
we got to give Diane Carroll her roleses Baby, because she's the one that
54:38
made it possible for these beautiful black actresses to have their own TV shows.
54:46
Look at miss pat Saluta, Miss Pat Saluta, Miss Tabitha Brown, you
54:52
know, to the Wendy Williams and let's pray for Wendy Williams. Excuse me.
54:59
But then she went on to go on Dynasty, she was in The
55:05
Kolby's, she was again in a different world. She played Whitney Gilbert's mother.
55:10
So Diane Carroll was an icon in her own right, and unfortunately I
55:17
don't feel like we celebrated her enough. You know, let me say that,
55:21
I don't feel like we celebrated Diane Carroll enough. You know, you'll
55:24
go back and you watch Claudine with her in the famous James Earl Jones aka
55:30
Darth Vader aka Mulfossa like Diane Carroll was absolutely a for us to be wrecking
55:37
with. Hey, naughty p hey, big brother. How you feeling today?
55:43
Oh? Yeah, at Claudine Classic. Now that's a movie. I
55:47
believe it's on Amazon Prime, y'all, but Claudie and my mother has it
55:52
on DVD. But when it came down to Diane Carroll, her being like
55:58
I said, she was on Breez's Anatomy, she was on a show called
56:02
White Collar, she was on let me See. She was also featured in
56:07
a breast cancer documentary because unfortunately, Diane Carroll did succumb to breast cancer,
56:15
and she was it was called One a Minute. But when I look back
56:22
and I look at Diane Carroll, I look at even Diana Ross, I
56:28
mean not Diana Ross, Dorothy Dandridge, you know, with Carmen Jones.
56:31
I look at Josephine Baker and these beautiful iconic women y'all that made it possible
56:45
for us black women to finally have a voice. You know, I could
56:51
go on and on about Diane Carroll and the phenomenal things that she does,
56:55
and the phenomenal things that she did even up until her past, and the
57:01
tribute that they gave her was such a beautiful fitting for a queen, you
57:07
know, Miss Up excuse me, uh, Miss Up, Denise says,
57:15
yes, on and on, I am blessed baby. Uh and BB no,
57:21
they says, hey, but yes, miss Denise. When I go
57:24
back and I even look at, I can't remember, and I see her
57:28
face and I just cannot call her name. Oh, y'all, what's her
57:34
name? She was on in the heat of the night? Denise Nichols her,
57:37
No, not Denise Nichols. Yes, that was her name. She
57:40
was on in the heat of the night. And then you also look at
57:45
I can't think of her name. She was on the halves and the half
57:46
notes, but a lot of people did not know that she was on in
57:50
the heat of the night. She played one of the deputies. She was
57:52
the black female deputy on in the heat of the knight. So Diane Carroll,
57:57
Josephine Baker, Dorothy Dan and all these other excellent black, excellent women
58:02
that opened the door for us to do the things that we're able to do
58:06
today. So we definitely have to reach back and we have to salute these
58:10
beautiful black icons that have helped pay the way for us. We can never
58:15
forget where we come from. Absolutely missed, Denise says, timeless, great,
58:20
wonderful, And that's why, you know, as I sat down and
58:24
prepared for this month, like I stated before, I wanted to go back
58:30
and I wanted to celebrate women that didn't get their flowers, and me personally,
58:35
I just didn't feel like Diane Carroll got her flowers like she deserved prior
58:39
to her past and away. Diane Carol a living legend, an icon.
58:49
What else can I say? Grace, beautiful, She was the true definition
58:54
of beauty, grace, poise, and every interview that she did she's very
59:01
south, soft spoken and just oh god, if I really just had one
59:08
word greatness for her. So as we get ready to cooles, let's look
59:16
at the tribute they did for Diane Carroll, a timeless legend. You know
59:24
what we're gonna do now, Now we're gonna celebrate the life of a legend
59:30
actress Diane Carroll. She broke barriers as an African American woman, and this
59:32
morning, tributes are continuing to pour in for her and deb Robert. You
59:37
are here with more on Oh my Gosh. Robin, as one Hollywood actress,
59:40
said, this one hurts very deeply. Diane Carroll symbolized so much for
59:45
so many of us remember Julia, but particularly actresses of color who realized that
59:51
she opened doors for them. From the fifties to the eighties. She just
59:54
swept into roles in ways that no other black actress had ever done before.
1:00:00
I didn't thank you for your presence. She was a powerful presence to behold
1:00:07
in the eighties on television and long before that on the big screen. Carol
1:00:12
Diane Johnson, born in New York City, seemed destined to dazzle. She
1:00:15
grew up taking dancing, singing, and modeling lessons. By age eighteen,
1:00:21
she snagged a role next to Dorothy Dandridge in Carmen Jones. With the career
1:00:24
spanning six decades on Broadway and film, Carol would impact generations for many.
1:00:31
Her most memorable achievement came in nineteen sixty eight in her own television show Julia,
1:00:37
a first for a black woman who wasn't playing a maid, Carol's talent
1:00:42
and beauty were undeniable, leading years later to that other groundbreaking role as Dominique
1:00:47
Devereaux on Dynasty, a first prominently featured black character on a primetime soap WORKO
1:00:54
Belomorage, Miss Deverezh. But her biggest role was as a mentor and trailblazer
1:00:59
for black women in Hollywood, like Halle Berry, who thanked Carol and her
1:01:04
unforgettable Oscar speech in two thousand and two. This moment for Dorothy Dandrewson know
1:01:12
Dian Carroll. In two thousand and eight, Carol visited Good Morning America,
1:01:16
humble about her many accomplishments. What you have achieved and are achieving? Has
1:01:22
it even exceeded what you thought was going to happen? I have to think
1:01:27
back. I remember as a young girl that I never thought of anything in
1:01:32
the direction of achieving or being a leader, of being you do the work
1:01:37
that you want to do. The tributes have been pouring in on social media,
1:01:43
Carrie Washington writing I love you with all my heart for eternity I am
1:01:47
because of you, and Oprah tweeting thanks for helping clear the path for me
1:01:52
and so many others. One of the most moving tributes coming from old friend
1:01:57
Billy D Williams, whom she shared this'reen with throughout the years we met in
1:02:01
high school, he said, and continued our friendship for many, many years.
1:02:06
The memories and tears are flowing and icon for so many. Indeed,
1:02:14
she was. I was fortunate enough to meet Diane Caroll on a couple of
1:02:16
occasions, and she was just as you'd expect her to be. Beautiful,
1:02:21
elegant, gracious, Robin, A memory that I will cherish forever. What
1:02:24
a life well lived? Huh Can you remember that mailbox? Lunchboxbox, our
1:02:30
lunchbox. Little girls, all black girls everywhere just waited for Julia on television.
1:02:34
Remember such a talent, such grace and everything. To see the tributes
1:02:38
that are pouring in absolutely celebration, a celebration as it should be. Well,
1:02:43
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1:03:00
you in the morning on GMA. I got a little choked up about that
1:03:07
because just listening to what this timeless great, I'm gonna use your word,
1:03:14
miss Denise, what this timeless great has done for us as black women.
1:03:22
She opened the door. And I'm so sorry that I forgot Lena Horn because
1:03:27
baby oh, I could go on and on about Miss Lena Horn for grace,
1:03:32
her beauty every day, like I could just go on and on.
1:03:36
But Diane Carroll a timeless great, a woman with grace, a woman with
1:03:45
elegance, a woman with poise that opened the doors and made magic and made
1:03:54
dreams come true for all the little black girls that used to watch her from
1:04:00
back then even now. So to you, Miss Diane Carroll, I salute
1:04:08
you, May you continue to rest well, and thank you for your contribution
1:04:14
to Black history. I had to take a deep breath on that one.
1:04:20
I had to because I got you know, like I told you guys,
1:04:26
when I sit down and I select the topics that I'm going to talk about,
1:04:32
I go dig very, very very deep into my bag because I want
1:04:40
to ensure that I'm bringing you the best content that I'm educating you also as
1:04:47
well as entertaining, because I always want to have some type of joy.
1:04:51
I want us to have beautiful conversations. I want us to talk about beautiful
1:04:55
people. I want us to have beautiful conversations. So I dig deep in
1:04:59
my bag for black girls, like I dig depoe these topics, like I
1:05:02
really truly do. Some of them. I can just come up with like
1:05:06
this. Some of them, I'm just like, you know what, I
1:05:09
need to play in ahead because things come up, things may change, things
1:05:13
may happen. So I really try to make sure that with each and every
1:05:16
episode that I do that I'm educating, you know, that I'm teaching us
1:05:19
something about black history, something that we're not learning in school, something that's
1:05:26
not putting our history books, you know. So I'm gonna always bring that
1:05:30
type of content to the forefront. So let me roll out my final thoughts,
1:05:38
so United Order of Tents, where I even begin with these two phenomenal
1:05:46
ladies, Anetta Lane and Harriet Taylor, two slaves, two former slaves that
1:05:55
form the Secret Society to help the community food shelter, healthcare loans to get
1:06:09
businesses because they weren't giving money to black people one hundred and fifty five years
1:06:15
ago. But two ladies that had a vision that still continues one hundred and
1:06:21
fifty five years later, phenomenal. Then I selected Diane Carroll, who I'm
1:06:34
only forty five, but I've been a fan of hers for as far back
1:06:39
as I can remember. A trendsetter, it's who Diane Carroll was. A
1:06:49
person that was not afraid to take no foreign answer, a person that had
1:06:56
her own TV series, the first black woman to have her own TV series
1:07:02
and not play a domestic worker who won an award, a Golden Globe Okay
1:07:10
in its first year. A trailblazer who exhumed grace and beauty and elegance.
1:07:23
With every role that she encountered, she embodied and made it her own.
1:07:30
So, Diane Carroll and the United Order of Tents here a black girl interrupted.
1:07:36
Not only do I give you love, but I continue to pay homage
1:07:41
for the foundation that you set for like minded people such as myself as well
1:07:46
as the other black men and black women in our community. Thank you,
1:07:51
thank you, thank you. I'm trying not to get choked up. Don't
1:08:00
try not to get emotional, but you can't help but get emotional when you
1:08:04
talk about our history and how great we are and how phenomenal we are,
1:08:11
and how we don't get the recognition that we deserve because we hide behind everybody
1:08:15
else. It's time for our lights to shine. It's time for us to
1:08:19
come from behind and come to the front. It's time for us, as
1:08:26
black women and black men. I'm so sorry, Black kings and black queens
1:08:30
to take our positions. It's time for people to know who we are.
1:08:34
It's time for us to start showing our gifts, because everyone is born with
1:08:39
a gift, and it's time for that to be seen. We have to
1:08:45
stop allowing fear to tow our goals and our dreams and our destination. That's
1:08:56
my final thought. I just have to take a moment because I just these
1:09:04
episodes are so emotional to me because I look at myself as a black woman,
1:09:11
and I look at the things that we and as black men and black
1:09:14
women have endured over the years and being told no. And to see us
1:09:21
kicking doors down, to see us building tables, to see us entering rooms
1:09:26
that we weren't allowed to go in. I love that for us. I
1:09:32
hope that this journey of entrepreneurship continues for us. I hope and pray before
1:09:41
my time on earth expires that I get to see another black Wall Street.
1:09:49
I get to see black schools, I get to see black libraries, black
1:09:55
grocery stores, and yeah, I know some exist, but I want to
1:09:59
see more. I'm so sorry, y'all, but I want to really truly
1:10:04
see that for us in our community. Whatever gift it is that you have,
1:10:11
please let us see it. Be the best at whatever it is that
1:10:15
you do, be the best at it. Stop worrying about the quality and
1:10:20
focus on the quantity, because it doesn't matter how many people. If you
1:10:27
got a thousand people, what is the quality of your product. You may
1:10:31
have the quantity, but you lack the quality. So I really want us
1:10:36
to start focusing on the quality and not so much the quality because the quantity
1:10:41
will come. Quality is what we need to focus on. So I say
1:10:45
that to every black business owner, male, female, boy, girl,
1:10:51
let your light shine. Stop playing with your potential. Stop worrying about who's
1:10:59
gonna support you. You would show up for you. And I'm gonna close
1:11:03
with that. So for the upcoming episodes of Black Girl Interrupted, because yes,
1:11:11
I will be back to my regular schedule program, so I will be
1:11:13
live excuse me tomorrow night and tomorrow night, I am recognizing the fabulous Debbie
1:11:19
Allen baby huh, the world renowned choreographer from Fame a Different World and known
1:11:26
as the little Sister to Felicia Rashad who played Claire Huxtable on The Gosbee Show.
1:11:31
We're celebrating her tomorrow night. Also, I'm celebrating Miss Maimon Johnson.
1:11:39
Miss Mammon Johnson was one of the two first African American females to play baseball.
1:11:45
Ah. Come on now, Like I said, I'm celebrating these hidden
1:11:50
figures. I'm paying homash to the forgotten. I'm giving them their roleses.
1:11:57
Although Miss Mammi Johnson is no longer with us, but I am giving her
1:12:01
her roses. And I'm also saluting Debbie Allen because I had to. I
1:12:06
had to talk about her, because Debbie Allen. For her to be seventy
1:12:11
six years old and still be shaken like she does, she deserves every rose
1:12:16
that has grown from the concrete. Yes waybat So that is tomorrow night.
1:12:21
You know, black girls, Hold up, I have some I have some
1:12:27
some comments. Hold up, so, mister Denise says, darling. You
1:12:32
in power, mister Denise, can I say this to you? Thank you?
1:12:41
I finally found my voice and found my purpose. This is how Black
1:12:47
Girl Interrupted came to be was a purpose. My purpose is I want to
1:12:56
change the narrative. I want the world to see how phenomenal black men and
1:13:01
black women truly are not all that you see portrayed on social media and on
1:13:09
these reality shows, because there are some beautiful black men and black women out
1:13:14
here that are making some power moves that do not get the recognition that they
1:13:17
deserve. My purpose is to change one person at a time. I may
1:13:24
can't change the world, but if I could change one person, that I've
1:13:28
done exactly what God has told me to do. I've done exactly what God
1:13:31
has allowed me to do. God gave me this voice and I have to
1:13:38
utilize it for the greater I wasn't always this way. Let me say that
1:13:42
I was never this I was not always this way. But through prayer,
1:13:49
through forgiveness and accountability, Black Girl Interrupted us here where it's at today.
1:13:56
So mister Denise, thank you that I've empowered, that I've inspired you,
1:14:01
that I pour into you, that I uplift you. I'm just doing the
1:14:05
exactly what God has told me to do. One person is all it takes
1:14:11
to make a difference. I'm worried more about the quality and not the quantity.
1:14:15
So thank you. I got it, y'all. I got the heart's
1:14:18
right with my head and she says, I shave and I shape back to
1:14:24
you. Absolutely, Malcolm says an n a film producer. Absolutely. Debbie
1:14:30
Allen, let me tell you something. I can't wait to talk about her
1:14:33
tomorrow. I can't wait to talk about Mamie Johnson tomorrow, he says,
1:14:36
one hundred. I can't because and then I can't wait for you guys to
1:14:42
see the other ladies that I selected to talk about, because one of these
1:14:45
ladies that I'm talking about, huh, was a no nonsense type of woman,
1:14:50
And I can't tell you who she is, but y'all don't know who
1:14:53
she is. Next week, but again tomorrow night, I will be discussing
1:14:58
the fabulous Debbie Allen and the fabulous Maami Johnson Again. Debbie Allen, world
1:15:04
renowned choreographer, film producer, director, the little sister of Felicia Rashad.
1:15:11
Born right here in Houston, Texas. Third ward third Wall, Houston,
1:15:15
Texas, is where Debbie Allen and Felicia Allen resided. Also you know,
1:15:20
got to give my girl Loretta Devine who's from Houston as well, love her.
1:15:25
And then also Mammi Johnson again y'all. Mami Johnson one of two African
1:15:30
American females to play in the NFL. I'm social, not NFL, in
1:15:36
the Negro League of Baseball. So we're gonna be talking about these two phenomenal
1:15:42
ladies tomorrow. Y'all already know. Black Girl Interrupted streams live every Tuesday,
1:15:46
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1:15:51
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1:16:00
I'm on Apple, I'm on Google, I'm on Spotify. Man,
1:16:05
Like when I put in black Girl Interrupted in the see my podcasts pop up
1:16:10
everywhere, like I just like, I so loved that. Also, just
1:16:15
to let you guys know, for those that missed out, the website is
1:16:18
up. So the new website is up. We just published it Sunday,
1:16:26
Saturday night, Sunday morning. I'm so sorry. We were up to like
1:16:28
three o'clock in the morning finishing and putting the final touches on it. Let
1:16:31
me go ahead and post the link down at the bottom. So the website
1:16:36
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the newsletters will consist of the conversation for the for the month. So like
1:16:56
for April, I will be talking about Sexual astault Awareness Month, I will
1:17:00
also be bringing awareness to autism. There will be one episode dedicated strictly to
1:17:04
autism. So if you are a parent with the autistic child, please tap
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1:17:13
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1:17:19
You can also RSVP for the episodes. We do have that on the website.
1:17:25
So like, I'm really, really really ecstatic about it. Let me
1:17:28
see if I can pull it up for you guys, so you can see
1:17:32
exactly what it looks like. Let me go ahead and share. Give me
1:17:36
just one moment, Let me let me share the screen. Hold on,
1:17:45
here we go? Where did it go? I don't know why it's not
1:17:50
okay, hold on, wait, let me put it on here. Where
1:17:59
did it go? Maybe it's not gonna let me show. Okay, let's
1:18:09
see if it will. Okay, No, I just won't. No,
1:18:14
I don't want that. I don't know, y'all. It may not let
1:18:16
me show, it may not let me share. But I wanted y'all to
1:18:21
see the website and the things that you could do on the website. But
1:18:27
again, if you go in, you cause, like I said, you
1:18:30
could sign up. It also gives you an update of the upcoming episodes on
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the podcast. Again, it's a tab where you can actually donate if you
1:18:42
choose to. It's not, you know, it's not something you have to
1:18:45
do, but if you would like to help with the cost of the streaming
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and things like that, a dollar ten like you could donate. I'm not
1:18:55
asking you to. Also, Black Girl Interrupted merchandise is on the way.
1:19:00
Be on the lookout for that sometime this summer, maybe June ish July.
1:19:06
Will see how everything goes. I'm still trying to put the finishing touches on
1:19:10
that. But again, there is the website down here at the bottom.
1:19:13
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1:19:28
for y'all to see some of the things that I am really truly putting together.
1:19:31
I want to do a meet and greet. Don't know where just yet,
1:19:34
but I would love to do a meet and greet, even if it's
1:19:35
a virtual meet and greet. Excuse me, but I want to work out
1:19:41
all the logistics and all the other beautiful stuff that goes in tune with that
1:19:45
because I want to start, you know, doing live things, So y'all
1:19:49
just be on the lookout for that. Also, if you would like to
1:19:53
be a guest on Black Girl Interrupted, I have posted the email down at
1:19:57
the bottom. That is subject to change, but as of right now,
1:20:00
it is black Girl Interrupted Podcast at gmail dot com. If you have any
1:20:05
any show ideas, if you would like to be a guest on the show,
1:20:10
please send me an email. That way we can set up a time
1:20:13
when we sit down, we talk and see what the topic is and what
1:20:17
schedule works for me. Also the schedule that works for the guests. Because
1:20:21
I am doing some collaborations, I do have some on the way, so
1:20:27
I will not be looking for guests until May, so it's you know,
1:20:30
go ahead send me the email so we could go ahead and get everything set
1:20:32
up and we could just play around with the dates and what is gonna work
1:20:36
for you as well as what's a good schedule for me. So I just
1:20:43
want to say thank y'all again so much for tuning into another episode of Black
1:20:46
Girl Interrupted. Again, thank y'all for the continuous love, Thank y'all for
1:20:50
the continuous support. Thank y'all again for the prayers for my daughter. She's
1:20:57
definitely gonna need This is her first you know. Again, you know,
1:21:01
her father passed away, so she's she's dealing with it and we're gonna make
1:21:05
it through. Miss Denise says, Okay, I appreciate your support, Miss
1:21:10
Denise. But again, I love you guys. I appreciate all the continuous
1:21:15
support that you guys show me each and every week, each and every day.
1:21:20
Thank you for the show ideas. Also, I do want to let
1:21:23
you know for the month of May, I will be bringing you all the
1:21:25
updates for the Tyne uh Tyrene Nichols case. I believe the trial is starting
1:21:30
in May, so I just got to get with the people that are directly
1:21:32
affiliated with the case so I can bring the updates to you, because I've
1:21:38
definitely been following that case from beginning all the way up until now. I
1:21:43
pray for justice for the family. And then I will also be bringing you
1:21:45
updates on some other cases that I've discussed in previous times, so be on
1:21:51
the lookout for some updates in regards to that. But I love you guys
1:21:56
again. Happy Wednesday, It is Wellness Wednesday. Whatever it is that you're
1:21:59
going to through, please please please put yourself first. Do not let anyone
1:22:02
stress you. Do not let a job stress you, baby. Do not
1:22:05
be afraid to take time off from work if need be. If you feel
1:22:10
like you are not where you need to be. I need you to take
1:22:14
a step back. I need you to relax, relate, and release.
1:22:16
Do not let anything in this world stress you to the point where you end
1:22:19
up in a grave. I love you, guys, And on that note,
1:22:25
I'm gonna go ahead and bring it to a close, so I will
1:22:27
see you guys tomorrow night again. Eight thirty pm Central Time, nine thirty
1:22:32
Eastern time. My big brother, I love your too, baby, and
1:22:35
I'm so proud of you. Congratulations on the release of your project. Me
1:22:41
and you, we need to talk outside of the show because I want to
1:22:45
do some things with you too, so we'll talk on the back end.
1:22:47
Big Brother again, I'm so proud of you and your project, so I
1:22:54
love you guys. You guys, have a beautiful night again. Happy Wednesday.
1:22:57
I will see y'all tomorrow night. Like I said, thirty pm Central
1:23:00
Time now thirty Easter Time being been tuned in with Black GIRNK Interrupted. I
1:23:05
know that's not my theme song, but y'all, I'm just in a really
1:23:09
good mood today. But I love you guys, and I'll see y'all tomorrow
1:23:13
night. Hi.