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BlackGirlMagic Interview: Dr. Tiffany M. Gill

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Truth's Table

Religion & Spirituality

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Dr. Tiffany M. Gill is a professor, historian, and a nationally recognized researcher and scholar of African American History. She is the author of the award-winning book Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry and co-editor of To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism. A graduate of Georgetown and Rutgers Universities, Dr. Gill was named one of the top 25 Women in Higher Education by Diverse Issues in Higher Education in 2018. A nationally recognized expert in African American Women’s History, the Civil Rights Movement, Black fashion and beauty culture, and travel and migration studies, she has provided expert commentary for various news outlets including National Public Radio, C-SPAN, CNBC, Vox, the Washington Post and New York Times. Dr. Gill has also served as a consultant for international beauty retailer Sephora and as the Historical Archivist for the Netflix documentary, Becoming, based on Michelle Obama’s bestselling memoir Since dedicating her life to Christ while a graduate student, she has served as the Project Director of a Christian counseling center, the Director of an English as a Second Language Program, and part of a church-planting team. Dr. Gill has also served as a leader on missions and service projects designed to combat the impact of homelessness, drug addiction, and the HIV/AIDS crisis on youth in Colombia, Cuba, and Zambia. A Brooklyn girl, tea-snob, and amateur makeup artist, Dr. Tiffany currently lives in Philadelphia, where she serves as a Deacon and a member of the SALT Women’s Ministry Leadership Team at Epiphany Fellowship. She can be found on social media @SableVictorian. Purchase Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry by Tiffany M. Gill https://bookshop.org/books/beauty-shop-politics-african-american-women-s-activism-in-the-beauty-industry/9780252076961 Dr. Tiffany Gill’s C-Span Lecture on Women and the Civil Rights Movement: https://www.c-span.org/video/?444244-1/african-american-women-civil-rights-movement Save 40% off Learning to Be by Juanita Campbell Rasmus when you order at https://www.ivpress.com/learning-to-be using promo code TRUTH20. This offer expires on September 30, 2020. Support Truth’s Table: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TruthsTable PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/TruthsTable Merchandise: https://teespring.com/truthstable Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0

And the Hey y'all, Welcome to True's table, Midwives of Culture for Grace and Truth.

0:22.6

I'm Kimmani.

0:23.4

And I'm Christina.

0:24.7

His table is built by Black Woman and for a Black woman.

0:27.2

So welcome to the table, see, how you doing, girl?

0:30.5

Well, I'm doing well, E, how are you?

0:34.0

I'm good, maintaining, learning to sing songs in a strange land.

0:38.0

That's what I'm doing.

0:40.0

Harmonizing, scatting over here, bopting, break dancing.

0:46.1

Come on poplocket, okay?

0:48.9

The Howard Johnson, the Sheridan, all right?

0:51.7

Yes. Actually, no, I'm poplocking in my house, right?

0:56.0

Because we're under quarantine.

0:58.0

Yes, and you have been serious about that life.

1:01.0

Oh yes, oh yes, very serious. area filled up my gas tank for the third time this year.

1:06.0

Three. Not a game.

1:10.0

I'm not playing with y'all, all right? I hear you. I received this with them. So where's Michelle girl? You know Michelle is out there doing all the things serving the church, serving the people, you know, taking care of the kiddos. You know, she is the James Brown of activism, or working women in the activism game.

1:36.2

She is every woman.

1:38.2

She's a shock-a-con.

1:40.0

She does have a bit of a shock of spirit here.

1:42.5

We debated this one time, but that's all right.

1:44.2

I love Tina Turner, we went back and forth about, you know,

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