Mary J. Blige, Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah & Friends Get Real About Pushing Through

Yes, Girl!

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Cori Murray, Women, Yes, Arts, Music, Podcasts, Essence, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Black Women, Celebrity, #Blackgirlmagic, Girl!, Pop Culture, Charli Penn, 509640, Essence Magazine, Cardi B, Yolanda Sangweni, Entertainment, Blackgirlmagic, Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Podcastsforwomen, Podcast

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

At ESSENCE Festival 2017, Tamron Hall moderated a juicy, once in a lifetime conversation between Mary J.Blige, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Monica, Niecy Nash, Mudbound director Dee Rees and Planned Parenthood Director Kristi Henderson. The women got real about past heartbreak, overcoming personal setbacks and the resiliency of Black women. Now this is what we call Black Girl Magic!

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0:00.0	Cori Murray.
0:03.4	Murray.
0:04.4	Charlotte Penn.
0:06.1	Heh, hey,
0:08.1	how are you today?
0:09.4	I actually want to realize that you and I both have like short names that we could say the
0:13.5	first and last name. The end with an eye. Oh I didn't even know that moment. We are so
0:19.7	kindred. I know I love you. Okay so we're back. So Yolanda is homesick, but Yolanda
0:26.1	Cori is so strong because she pushed through all week when everybody was like
0:30.0	girl go home and first of all I love and, oh, I have a frog in my throat,
0:34.9	and then it was like became an upper respiratory infection.
0:37.5	Yeah, she, and then she still came in, but then she was like, you know what,
0:40.3	I need to practice what I preach.
0:42.2	Self-Care. On the website every day self care and
0:44.6	keep my ass at home so and we are proud of her for that because as strong as we
0:48.6	are as black women sometimes we gotta call it she keep a cute at Afropunk this weekend.
0:53.2	She did. Well last weekend and I was a little jelly but that's all right.
0:56.8	I missed it.
0:57.8	Okay. We will not miss it. Actually we need to put our prayers and write our intentions for going to Afro-punk and Joe Berg in December.
1:06.0	We're putting it out there in the world.
1:08.0	Claiming it.
1:09.0	And speaking of strong women though.
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