Hey listeners, today I'm sharing with you a preview from a new podcast I've been loving

and I think you will too. Glory Edam started a book club called Well Red Black Girl in 2015

and since then it's exploded into a passionate worldwide reading community.

Now she's launching the Well Red Black Girl podcast, the literary kickback you never

knew you needed. On the show, Glory has deep honest conversations with leading authors and change

makers of color about the power of the written word and what it means to be Well Red.

You'll hear from luminaries like Toronto Burke Anita Hill Zeba Bale and more about how they

found their voice, hone their craft and showed up in the world. You'll meet Black Bookstore owners,

literacy advocates and Well Red Black Girl book club members themselves. They talk about the

current cultural moment where art, justice and literature collide and pay homage to the legacies

of the women who paved the way. I'm so excited to share this preview of Glory's conversation

with the one and only Gabrielle Union. They chat about what else? Gabrielle's iconic role and

bring it on. Spoiler alert, there was another cheer movie at the time that she wanted to be in

but didn't get cast for. You can hear the full episode and more from Well Red Black Girl

wherever you get your podcast. You know, everyone knows you're rolling bringing on. Did you know

it was going to be such a cultural moment where everyone would be like dressing up as you

fall in the wind and like copying your ponytail? So by the time bring it on came around. I had already

done 10 things I had about you. She's all that love and basketball. So they were just like, oh,

she's the black of the moment. But by that time the movie was called cheer fever and it was already

set up at Universal and they had arranged a table read. But from all of those actors, the only

person that ended up in the movie was me. Cheer fever wasn't actually the movie I wanted. I wanted

sugar and spice, the cheerleading robbery movie. That was positioned as the cheerleading movie to have.

...