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Marcie Alvis-Walker, Tasha Hunter & Lettie Shumate
In this final episode of the four-part series celebrating Black Women, I am joined once again joined by Marcie Alvis-Walker from @blackcoffeewithwhitefriends and special guests: author and therapist; Tasha Hunter, and Historian; Lettie Shumate from @sincerely.lettie. In this conversation, we continue our discussion about Black women throughout our history focusing on Black women as our first ladies of democracy. From Fannie Lou Hammer to Michelle Obama to Kamala Harris, we discuss the the role of black women in the White House and how America has typecast the roles they can and can not play in our democracy. But as we share in this episode, once again Black women have broken through that…
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Marcie Alvis-Walker, Patricia Taylor, Lettie Shumate & Tasha Hunter
In episode three of a four-part series during Black History Month, we celebrate BLACK WOMEN. I am joined once again by Marcie Alvis-Walker from @blackcoffeewithwhitefriends and special guests Patricia Taylor from the popular blog and instagram account ‘Some Thoughts from Your Black Friend’; author and therapist Tasha Hunter and Historian Lettie Shumate from @sincerely.lettie. In this conversation, we continue our discussion about distorted ideas and images of Black women throughout history; from the asexual mammy image to the hypersexual jezebel stereotype to black women as the backbone of society. This episode is not for young ears, and for those of you who have sexual trauma as part of your story should…
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Marcie Alvis-Walker, Patricia Taylor and Tasha Hunter
In episode two of a 4-part series during Black History we celebrate BLACK WOMEN. Once again I am joined by Marcie Alvis-Walker from @blackcoffeewithwhitefriends and special guests Patricia Taylor from the popular blog and instagram account "Some Thoughts from Your Black Friend" and author and therapist, Tasha Hunter. We pick up where we left off in our last conversation and discuss the origins of distorted ideas and images of Black women vs their actual roles in our history. My guests share their thoughts on the movie "The Help" and why it is not an accurate portrayal of the stories of Black women. We dive into the stories of the real life Black women to be…
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Marcie Alvis-Walker
In this special episode I am joined by Marcie Alvis-Walker. This month Marcie joins me each with as we celebrate Black Women in American History. We talk about the stories of Black women who are often overlooked or hidden from our mainstream History lessons—from the Kitchen to the White House. In this particular episode we talk about “The Jemima Code” and celebrate how from the beginning of our country’s history, Black women have excelled as chefs, cook and running the households they were put in charge of. We also talk about the integration of food in America and the story behind some of our favorite foods and recipes.
