Tamara Winfrey Harris, DEAR BLACK GIRL
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Tamara Winfrey Harris joins Zibby to discuss her new book of heartwarming letters from Black women to help guide, protect, and inspire the next generation of young Black girls. The writers of the letters in Dear Black Girl range from celebrities like Brandy and former columnist Rochelle Riley to other women who simply responded to the request for letters, all of whom offer incredible advice and promote the universal practice of self-love.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, |
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| 0:16.8 | All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research. |
| 0:20.4 | And I'm the editor-in-chief of M don't have time to write a new publication on Medium. |
| 0:25.0 | And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there. |
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| 0:34.8 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:40.3 | Tamara Winfrey Harris is the author of Dear Black Girl, letters from your sisters on stepping into your power. Tamara is also the author |
| 0:46.3 | of The Sisters Are All Right, changing the broken narrative of black women in America, which won |
| 0:51.4 | several awards, including the Harlem Book Fair's Phyllis Wheatley |
| 0:54.7 | Award. Her work also appears in the books The Burden, African Americans, and the enduring |
| 0:59.2 | impact of slavery, and the lemonade reader, Beyonce, Black feminism, and spirituality, as well |
| 1:04.8 | as in publications, such as The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, New York Magazine, Ebony, the |
| 1:09.8 | American Prospect, and Ms. Magazine. |
| 1:12.2 | She is the vice president of community leadership and effective philanthropy at the Central Indiana Community Foundation. |
| 1:18.5 | Tamara is a native of Gary, Indiana, and a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. |
| 1:24.8 | She graduated with a BA degree from the Greenlee Score of Journalism at Iowa State |
| 1:28.7 | University. Welcome, Tamara. Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books |
| 1:33.8 | to discuss dear Black Girl letters from your sisters on stepping into your power. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:40.9 | Oh my gosh. It's my pleasure. First of all, this was a brilliant concept to do as a book |
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