Embracing Your Roots with Uzo Aduba
Baby, this is Keke Palmer
Wondery
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Get ready to embrace your roots! This week, the fabulous Uzo Aduba joins us for a powerful conversation presented by Dove all about natural hair and the CROWN Act. Uzo opens up about her natural hair journey from childhood to Hollywood, and picks apart what the industry gets wrong about natural hair. We dive into the importance of the CROWN Act, why it’s such a game changer for Black women. Then we test out options for Uzo’s next signature look in a game called “Mane Thriller.”
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Baby This is Kiki Palmer is sponsored by Dove and the Crown Coalition. |
| 0:05.7 | Keep listening to learn more about their amazing work to continue shifting culture to celebrate |
| 0:10.1 | black hair. Now, let's start the show. |
| 0:18.5 | Hello, hello, hello, it's your girl, Kiki Palmer Palmer back at it again with the energy you know and love. |
| 0:23.7 | Today we're going to have what I want to call a crown conversation, a conversation all about natural |
| 0:28.8 | hair and the Crown Act. And guess who I have with me to talk about it today? She's won Emmys. She's got |
| 0:34.4 | that undeniable talent and she's giving us all the feels every time she's on |
| 0:38.0 | screen. Yes, you guessed it, Uzo Aduba. She is in the building for a very special episode presented |
| 0:43.8 | by Dove. I'm ready to get into it and I know you are too because baby, this is Kiki Palmer. |
| 0:50.2 | No matter what we're doing in the car just chilling Popo Amazon music sit back and listen |
| 0:55.0 | Life, love, sex, science covering it all, especially the backers money always involved |
| 0:59.0 | No matter what it is, we gonna make it make sense nothing else to do but kick it with the homies and keying |
| 1:04.0 | So grab you a drink and a snack you enjoy and get into the vibe that only won this is going to |
| 1:08.0 | You know it's your girls |
| 1:09.0 | Baby this this is, this is Kiki. |
| 1:12.6 | Baby, this is Kiki Poma, yeah. |
| 1:19.6 | How you doing? |
| 1:20.6 | I'm good. |
| 1:21.6 | How are you? |
| 1:22.6 | I'm good. |
| 1:23.6 | I want to talk to you, obviously, today about the Crown Act. |
| 1:26.6 | Dove has started the Crown Coalition that has also impacted the, just the passing of the Crown Act and making sure that it's more possible for women, black women, to be able to wear their natural hair. |
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