It’s A Black Girl Magic Explosion: Yvonne Orji and ESSENCE Bawse Vanessa K. DeLuca Are Here!
Yes, Girl!
ESSENCE PODCAST NETWORK
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2017
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
We’re closing out the year celebrating why Black women are so lit (obvi). ESSENCE editor-in-chief Vanessa K. DeLuca (@Vanessa_KDeLuca) shares what it's really like to be at the helm of Black Girl Magic headquarters and recaps the biggest moments for Black women in 2017. Plus, Yvonne Orji (@YvonneOrji) is back, ya’ll! Cori, Yolanda and Charli kicked it with the Insecure star in Miami — on a break from touring on Chris Rock’s Total Blackout tour — and as always, extreme laughter and good vibes followed. Yvonne reveals what “making it” means to her, why she won’t let fame change her and why 2017 has been incredible for her. Happy New Year! Love, Team Yes, Girl!
Yes, Girl! hosts: Cori Murray @corimurray; Charli Penn @ManWifeDog; and Yolanda Sangweni @yolizama
Project Manager: Steven Psyllos @stevenpsyllos
Production: Cadence13’s Bob Tabaddor @tabaddor
Music: Gold Standard Creative @gscdotnyc
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| 0:00.0 | So how is everybody's Christmas? Fantastic. It was great. Amazing. We hope yours was wonderful too. Cozy. Now we're getting ready for the new year and happy second day of |
| 0:14.0 | Kwanza. I don't know what it's called. Don't come for me. Oh someone has sent me a |
| 0:17.6 | sound cloud of Trapp Quanza. Trap Quanza. Okay I need to hear this. |
| 0:22.0 | Oh my god. My internet was not doing right. Thanks net neutrality, whatever. |
| 0:27.0 | But I think it was just Wi-Fi. But, by the way, you know there's a Kwanza crawl in Brooklyn you guys, so it's a bar crawl basically, but of black-owned bars in Brooklyn. |
| 0:37.0 | Oh, I live in it. Oh my God, when is it? |
| 0:40.0 | Happened two days ago. It is so exciting you guys next year, put it in your |
| 0:43.9 | calendar. It's basically a bar crawl and black business crawl so a bunch of people |
| 0:48.6 | meet in one place and then we all walk around to different black owned bars in Brooklyn. I heard it's coming to |
| 0:54.9 | Harlem too but I'm sure if you contact you know you could do it in your town too. |
| 0:58.1 | I am googling that. Me too and that's so lit and I'm so grateful for how lit we were in 2017 yes it was pretty |
| 1:06.6 | lit as a people yes right it was it was it was it was pretty it was pretty fantastic |
| 1:11.8 | be a black woman or man in 2017. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:15.0 | It was challenging politically but yes and also it. |
| 1:18.0 | We did it. |
| 1:19.0 | We did it. |
| 1:20.0 | It was challenging now. And that's really saying something because it was challenging and we still |
| 1:23.0 | and we still listen how great a read I think my favorite meme or tweet everyone |
| 1:27.7 | kept mentioning was like when a black woman just says fuck it I'll do it and I just |
| 1:31.4 | feel like even when things went like upside down. We were just like fine |
| 1:36.6 | Let me take a shot of Hennessy and keep it moving you know I'll fix it. Yeah. Just another day with the cape. Just like Alabama elections. We did that. |
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