Black Moms On The Front Lines: These Black Women Reporters Are Bringing Us Life-Saving News
Yes, Girl!
ESSENCE PODCAST NETWORK
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
For our final episode of the Black Moms on the Front Lines Series, we speak with three Black mothers who are reporters. Michelle Relerford (@mrelerfordnbc), Checkey Beckford (@Checkey4NY), and Janai Norman (@janai.norman). Their experiences though different, have one very important thing in common, these women are clear about their impact on the daily lives of Black people. Reporting the news and coming home to their little ones, these three women give us a glimpse into their lives - one reporting on the highs and lows of Chicago, another remembering the impact of Newtown, and another giving birth during this pandemic. Listen to their stories and help us celebrate them by sharing their episode with others. #YesGirlPodcast
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| 0:00.0 | Essence is proud to honor the black mothers on the front lines of this global |
| 0:05.7 | pandemic, the ones fighting for the most disproportionately affected communities. |
| 0:10.6 | The doctors and nurses standing between us and tragedy, the essential workers keeping us fed, |
| 0:18.8 | the policy makers fighting to keep their cities safe, and the reporters bringing us life-saving news. |
| 0:27.1 | Their work must not be overlooked as they care for our families and their own. |
| 0:33.0 | Essence Podcast Network is proud to celebrate these incredible women |
| 0:37.2 | with a Yes Girl Podcast limited series event, |
| 0:40.6 | highlighting their lives and daily contributions to society. |
| 0:44.0 | This girl podcast is part of the Essence Podcast Network. |
| 0:47.0 | You can hear and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, I Heart Radio, and anywhere you listen to audio. |
| 0:54.0 | Poi. |
| 0:57.0 | Hey Charle-Pen, |
| 1:01.0 | I love. How you doing? |
| 1:04.0 | I'm all right. You know, I'm all, you know, giving everything that's been happening. |
| 1:08.0 | Right now in this space, I'm okay. |
| 1:11.0 | It's been, as we all have have been saying it's been a really extremely |
| 1:15.1 | challenging time but I mean you know as we often say we're finding joy in the |
| 1:19.3 | little things it's been wonderful to tell the stories that we've been telling with our Black Moms on the frontline spotlight series here at Yes Girl Podcast. It's been beautiful. |
| 1:30.0 | I am so appreciative that we have been celebrating these pockets of joy, these pockets of |
| 1:38.7 | women who are really heroes. |
| 1:40.8 | And I love that we've been redefining what a hero looks like, you know. |
| 1:45.0 | I know we've kind of done a catchphrase of frontline workers or essential workers, |
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