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Yes, Girl!

Beychella Hangovers, Woke Notes with Tessa Thompson and ESSENCE President Michelle Ebanks On What's Next

Yes, Girl!

ESSENCE PODCAST NETWORK

Cori Murray, Women, Yes, Arts, Music, Podcasts, Essence, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Black Women, Celebrity, #Blackgirlmagic, Girl!, Pop Culture, Charli Penn, 509640, Essence Magazine, Cardi B, Yolanda Sangweni, Entertainment, Blackgirlmagic, Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Podcastsforwomen, Podcast

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2018

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In this high season of Black Excellence, we start our episode in acknowledgment and praise for Beyoncé’s salute to HBCU’s greeks and goddesses at Beychella’s first weekend. Next, a sit-down with Michelle Ebanks, president of Essence Communications Inc, and actress and activist Tessa Thompson (@TessaThompson_x). Both women are leading movements: Michelle’s helming Black Girl Magic headquarters with a vision to super-serve Black women, and Tessa’s fiercely advocating for diversity representation on screen and off through her work as a founding member of Time’s Up. In the spirit of King Bey, we came to slay. #yesgirlpodcast

 Yes, Girl! hosts: Cori Murray @corimurray; Charli Penn @ManWifeDog; and Yolanda Sangweni @yolizama

Producer: Steven Psyllos @stevenpsyllos

Audio engineer: Chiquita Pascal @ChiquitaPaschal

Music: Gold Standard Creative @gscdotnyc

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0:00.0

Hit me. All right, y'all. If y'all, if y'all,

0:14.0

if y'all, if y'all don't know when we're playing you must have taken a flight to Mars because the rest of us in the world

0:30.3

We're at Beachella. Girl.

0:33.0

Or you went to bed and I don't know how or why.

0:35.0

And I know you're regretting the fuck out of that moment.

0:38.0

Yes.

0:39.0

Because we were up.

0:40.0

I'm Corey Murray.

0:41.0

I'm Charlie Penn.

0:42.0

I'm Yolanda San Guenny and you're listening to yes girl.

0:46.4

Oh my God we have such a jam-packed but worth to listen. We're gonna talk about Beachella,

0:52.3

beechlla, how

0:52.8

you want to call it. It was fucking fabulous. We also have our essence

0:56.4

communications president Michelle E. Banks and wait for it. Tessa

1:01.9

motherfucking Thompson y'all. I have loved Tessa motherfucking Thompson, y'all.

1:03.6

I have loved Tessa Thompson since dear white people, but I really became a stand for her

1:08.9

when she was in Thoragner Rock as Valkyrie, and she really twisted that character on his head because in the comic

1:14.8

books Valkyrie is blonde blue-haired warrior and there she was this proud black

1:20.2

woman and I even love now on Twitter people are saying that the

1:23.8

Marvel comic universe is really shifting to women of color and Tessa is

1:28.8

really here for it and also Tessa is one of the founding members of Times Up

1:32.2

and I love how she breaks what

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