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60 | Black History: Preserving Our Legacy with Toya Coleman

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Balancedblackgirl, Self-improvement, #Shessolucky, Balancedles, Business, Entrepreneurship, Lesalfred, Education

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is Toya Coleman, creator of Toya from Harlem. Toya From Harlem is an online platform for millennials of color who want to learn more about Locs, history, art and culture without boring pretentious language.

Born and raised in Harlem, with a BA in African-American studies, Toya was inspired to create her platform as a way to capture the historical places in Harlem that were being erased in the name of gentrification. Currently, she lives in LA and has expanded her message from Harlem to cover black history nationwide. 

One of her proudest accomplishments was her feature on BET.com titled,“See This Artist's Recreations of Iconic Imagery For Black History Month” where she recreated iconic photos of Black men in history. 

In this episode, we talk about…

  • Underrated moments in Black history.

  • The best social media accounts to follow to learn about Black history.

  • Black women’s stories that aren’t often told.

  • Gentrification’s impact on Black history. 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Balance Black Girl Podcast. We're putting Black Girl Magic in motion.

0:07.0

This show is dedicated to reinventing wellness for women of color.

0:11.0

I'm your host Lestrandra Alfred. Thank you so much for joining me

0:14.8

for this week's episode of Balance Black Girl Podcast. If you're a returning

0:18.8

listener, thank you so much for tuning in and if you are a new listener welcome to the show I am so happy to have

0:25.1

you and hope to have you join us for more episodes so I really want to thank everybody

0:31.1

who has reached out with all of the kind feedback from our last episode, which was the solo episode that I did.

0:40.0

I have to be honest y'all solo episodes scare the heck out of me. I am so much more comfortable

0:47.8

interviewing people and asking other people questions and getting other people to talk and

0:53.0

getting other people to share their story.

0:54.8

Sometimes I get really wrapped up in that and I forget to share my story and

0:58.9

it makes me question, well do people want to hear from me? The show isn't really about me, which is true and I don't want that to be the case.

1:07.6

But I do think it is important for us to occasionally just have these conversations with one another where I am talking directly to you, a member of this community.

1:18.0

So thank you so much for all of the kind words.

1:22.0

Since then, one of the kind words.

1:22.6

Since then, one of the things that I had opened up about

1:25.8

was the passing of my grandmother, which is something

1:27.9

that has definitely impacted me greatly.

1:30.5

And shortly after that episode was recorded was also when we all got news of the

1:38.6

helicopter crash where Kobe Bryant and his daughter and six seven other people lost their lives in that crash and I think

1:46.9

What all of those events really made me think about was legacy about the leg legacy we leave behind, reminders of how fragile life really is.

1:58.0

I know in that episode I talked about community and

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