S E1122: Schele Williams: Reclaiming our Enslaved History

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Karen is joined by Schele Williams, author and Broadway director committed to cultivating new musicals and work with authentic representation. She is currently directing the upcoming Broadway revivals of Aida (Disney Theatrical Group) and The Wiz as well as the premieres of Mandela the Musical and Indigo.

Her new book: Your Legacy, A Bold Reclaiming of Your Enslaved History

A proud, empowering introduction to African American history that celebrates and honors our enslaved ancestors.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. I'm here for it. Let me see what Shelly Williams feels about it. She's the
0:16.9	author of Your Legacy, a bold reclaiming of our enslaved history. She's also a
0:21.1	multiple Tony winner. We're going to talk about the whiz. We're going to talk about Iido. We're going to talk about the notebook. She's doing a lot of things. I'm so happy to talk with her today. But first we're going to talk about this Trina Saucy Santana.
0:33.0	Shelly's like, I gotta write this song down.
0:38.0	Yes.
0:39.0	Yeah, I hadn't heard it, but I tell you what, I'm all for this generation,
0:45.0	creating their own rules, speaking their own language.
0:48.6	They need to assert their voice because they're going to inherit this mess. Amen. And so they need to take charge of it.
0:55.0	Yes ma'am let me officially welcome you to the show.
1:00.0	Shelly Williams. Hey!
1:04.0	Hey!
1:05.0	I was just looking up sex strikes, right?
1:10.0	And this is in conjunction this song with Trina and Sauci Santana, in conjunction with the
1:16.8	dating app, Black, BLK.
1:19.3	So they are going full steam into this. And as I'm looking up sex strikes throughout history
1:25.3	ancient Greece which I'm gonna say black people Nigeria the evil people
1:30.7	pre-colonial times, black people, Colombia, I'm gonna say indigenous people.
1:37.2	Kenya had a sex strike April 2009 women organized to do a week-long sex
1:42.4	strike aimed at the politicians
1:43.9	encouraging the wives of the president and the prime minister to join in and
1:47.4	excuse me offer to pay prostitutes for lost earnings this is how serious they were in Kenya. Liberia had a sex strike in 2003
1:56.0	where the women of Liberia mass action of peace organized a nonviolent protest using their
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