Dispatches from Black Motherhood
The Longest Shortest Time
Hillary Frank | Realm
4.7 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the longest shortest time I'm Hillary Frank and I want to introduce you to somebody |
| 0:13.1 | who helps us out behind the scenes here. |
| 0:15.6 | My name is Antonia Akitunde. |
| 0:17.8 | Antonia is on our editorial board. |
| 0:20.1 | She helps us define stories for the show. |
| 0:22.8 | I asked Antonia to work with us because she's got this awesome project called Modernia. |
| 0:28.1 | It's a website where she features interviews with black women, |
| 0:31.4 | black mothers specifically, who have interesting jobs. |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, from my perspective, it was a way of filling a void in the media landscape |
| 0:41.4 | where black women are presented outside of the stereotypes. |
| 0:46.2 | You're either the welfare mom stereotype, the angry black woman stereotype, |
| 0:53.4 | and then there's only one Michelle Obama. |
| 0:56.2 | And I wanted to show that there was different ways and spaces of being black and being a mother |
| 1:01.9 | and being a career woman. |
| 1:04.0 | For myself and also I figured other people would be interested in that as well. |
| 1:08.6 | Modernia has all kinds of content geared toward black working moms. |
| 1:13.0 | There's lifestyle tips like how to handle the stress of working while black beauty tips, |
| 1:18.7 | how to care for your skin and hair. |
| 1:20.8 | There's tips on family relationships, like how to deal with unwelcoming in-laws. |
| 1:26.4 | And there's a whole series on mental illness in the black community. |
| 1:30.8 | Modernia is just stunning visually. |
| 1:33.6 | The photos are huge, colorful, beautifully shot. |
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