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Live Well, Sister! with Marcie L. Thomas, featuring Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts
Tune in on Wednesday, October 30th, at 8:00 PM EDT for a conversation with NAACP Image Award-winning author Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts!
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Reclaim your joy with this beautifully designed and thoughtful playbook from the author of Black Joy, the NAACP Image Award winner.
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We have an ancestral mandate to hold not just the pain and trauma of our experiences as Black people, but to hold the joy and love and peace that is also ours.
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Joy is a weapon, not only for resistance, but also a means for healing-a powerful tool that is all-encompassing and necessary. Black Joy Playbook helps you mine your memories to discover what joy looks and feels like to you and then guides you to re-create it in your present-day life.
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Divided into themes of joy in the body, breath, tears, laughter, and every day, each of the thirty entries includes the following:
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• a short inspiration
• questions for reflection
• a meditation
• space for contemplation
• suggestions for how to choose joy
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It’s time to chase joy and cultivate it from the inside out!
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About our Guest: Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts is the author of over 23 books, including several collaborations with high-profile authors like Tabitha Brown. She is also the founder of HeARTspace, a healing community created to serve those who have experienced trauma of any kind through storytelling and the arts. Tracey has spoken on many platforms around the country about race/social justice, education, faith/spirituality, and wellness. Her freelance work has also been published in print and online publications such as Oprah Daily, The Washington Post, Essence, The Guardian, The Chronicle for Higher Education, Ebony, The Root, and more.
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BGC Book Club Presents: Lauren Ling Brown, author of SOCIETY OF LIESBGC Book Club Presents: Lauren Ling Brown, author of SOCIETY OF LIES
BGC Book Club Presents: Lauren Ling Brown, author of SOCIETY OF LIES
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Join the BGC Book Club on Monday, October 21st at 8:00 PM EDT for a conversation with Lauren Ling Brown about her spectacular debut novel, SOCIETY OF LIES, a Reese's Book Club Pick. . How far would you go to belong? . Maya has returned to Princeton for her college reunion-it’s been a decade since she graduated, and she is looking forward to seeing old faces and reminiscing about her time there....
BGC Book Club Presents: Shirlene Obuobi, author of BETWEEN FRIENDS & LOVERSBGC Book Club Presents: Shirlene Obuobi, author of BETWEEN FRIENDS & LOVERS
BGC Book Club Presents: Shirlene Obuobi, author of BETWEEN FRIENDS & LOVERS
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Join the BGC Book Club on Monday, October 14th at 8:00 PM EDT for a conversation with Shirlene Obuobi about her dynamic sophomore novel, BETWEEN FRIENDS & LOVERS. . An influencer, an actor, and a writer navigate the messy ins and outs of friendship and romance in a world where social media demands perfection-or at least the appearance of it-in this swoon-worthy love story for readers of Kennedy...
Live Well, Sister! with Marcie L. Thomas, featuring Lisa A. LipscombLive Well, Sister! with Marcie L. Thomas, featuring Lisa A. Lipscomb
Live Well, Sister! with Marcie L. Thomas, featuring Lisa A. Lipscomb
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Lisa Lipscomb remembers the day she was in 10th grade and told her father that she couldn’t wait to finish school and ‘just get a job.’ She couldn’t imagine attending college if it was half as boring as school was that year. Why pay for more dull moments? Her Dad pivoted after listening and said in summary, “There will always be something new for you to learn. Growth doesn’t end with high schoo...
BGC Book Club Presents: Suzette D. Harrison & Suzette Riddick, authors of the GENERATIONS seriesBGC Book Club Presents: Suzette D. Harrison & Suzette Riddick, authors of the GENERATIONS series
BGC Book Club Presents: Suzette D. Harrison & Suzette Riddick, authors of the GENERATIONS series
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Join the BGC Book Club on Monday, October 7th, at 8 PM EDT for a conversation with The Twins, Suzette D. Harrison and Suzette Riddick, about their beautiful novella series, GENERATIONS. . The Suzettes' new series, Generations, features stories that pay homage to our culture (past & present), sisterhood, & the power & strength of Black women. This celebratory series features ten novellas release...
Live Well, Sister! with Marcie L. Thomas, featuring D. Danyelle ThomasLive Well, Sister! with Marcie L. Thomas, featuring D. Danyelle Thomas
Live Well, Sister! with Marcie L. Thomas, featuring D. Danyelle Thomas
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BGC Family, tune in on Wednesday, October 2nd, at 8:00 PM EDT for a conversation with the dynamic D. Danyelle Thomas! . Get ready for a sneak peek at The Day God Saw Me as Black, a genre-defying, cultural critique of white supremacy in the Black Pentecostal religious experience through the lenses of race, gender, sexual expression, and class analyses. A narrative that weaves between critique an...
BGC Book Club Presents: Vanessa Riley, author of MURDER in BERKELEY SQUAREBGC Book Club Presents: Vanessa Riley, author of MURDER in BERKELEY SQUARE
BGC Book Club Presents: Vanessa Riley, author of MURDER in BERKELEY SQUARE
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Join the BGC Book Club on Monday, September 30th at 8:00 PM EDT for a conversation with @vanessarileyauthor about her MURDER in BERKELEY SQUARE, the third installment in the Lady Worthing Mystery series. . A marriage of convenience saved Lady Abigail Worthing’s family from disgrace, but she’s finding her absent husband's endless conditions increasingly repressive. Unable to stay at their London...
BGC Book Club Presents: Shawntelle Madison, author of THE FALLEN FRUITBGC Book Club Presents: Shawntelle Madison, author of THE FALLEN FRUIT
BGC Book Club Presents: Shawntelle Madison, author of THE FALLEN FRUIT
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Join the BGC Book Club on Monday, September 23rd at 8:00 PM EDT for a conversation with Shawntelle Madison about her powerful historical fiction novel, THE FALLEN FRUIT. . On a rainy day in May 1964, history professor Cecily Bridge-Davis begins to search for the sixty-five acres of land she inherited from her father's family. The quest leads her to uncover a dark secret: In every generation, on...
Remembering Tina: A Conversation with Tina McElroy Ansa and Wanda LloydRemembering Tina: A Conversation with Tina McElroy Ansa and Wanda Lloyd
Remembering Tina: A Conversation with Tina McElroy Ansa and Wanda Lloyd
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We celebrate the life and legacy of novelist, filmmaker, teacher, businesswoman, and journalist Tina McElroy Ansa (November 18, 1949 - September 10, 2024) with this February 1, 2023, interview featuring Ms. Ansa and her fellow Spelman College sister, long-time friend, and frequent collaborator Wanda Lloyd. Tina McElroy Ansa was the award-winning author of five novels, including Baby of the Fami...
BGC Book Club Presents: Lọlá Ákínmádé ÅkerströmBGC Book Club Presents: Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström
BGC Book Club Presents: Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström
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World Premiere: On this special edition of BGC Book Club, host Marcie L. Thomas sits down with international best-selling author and brilliant storyteller Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström. . Lolá’s contemporary novels, In Every Mirror She’s Black and Everything Is Not Enough, follow the stories of four Black women from across the African diaspora on varying paths of self-discovery. While navigating thei...
Live Well, Sister! with Marcie L. Thomas, featuring Khristi Lauren AdamsLive Well, Sister! with Marcie L. Thomas, featuring Khristi Lauren Adams
Live Well, Sister! with Marcie L. Thomas, featuring Khristi Lauren Adams
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Tune in on Wednesday, September 4th, at 8:00 PM EDT for a conversation with special guest Khristi Lauren Adams! . Khristi Lauren Adams's faith was first shaped by her experiences as a Black girl learning about Scripture from her grandmother, Mama Hattie; "playing church" with her seven cousins over summer vacation; and grieving the murder of her sixteen-year-old friend when she was just fifteen...
Live Well, Sister! with Marcie L. Thomas, featuring Dr. Joy Harden BradfordLive Well, Sister! with Marcie L. Thomas, featuring Dr. Joy Harden Bradford
Live Well, Sister! with Marcie L. Thomas, featuring Dr. Joy Harden Bradford
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Tune in on Wednesday, August 28th at 8:00 PM EDT for the world premiere of a conversation with special guest Dr. Joy Harden Bradford of Therapy for Black Girls! . In her best-selling book, Dr. Joy Harden Bradford shares how sisterhood is that sacred space where all the masks worn for the world fall off. It’s where you lay down your load, refill your cup, and laugh until your belly aches. Our si...
BGC Book Club Presents: Noué Kirwan, author of FREQUENT FLIERSBGC Book Club Presents: Noué Kirwan, author of FREQUENT FLIERS
BGC Book Club Presents: Noué Kirwan, author of FREQUENT FLIERS
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Join the BGC Book Club on Monday, August 26th at 8:00 PM EDT for a conversation with Noué Kirwan about her sophomore novel, FREQUENT FLIERS. . Her life is up in the air-literally… . Lanie Turner has some loose ends: *A nearly complete PhD. *A job she basically enjoys. *And a lifelong crush…that she’s almost gotten over. On a trip to reunite with her family in England-and said crush, Jonah-Lanie...
Live Well, Sister! with Marcie L. Thomas, featuring Rainie HowardLive Well, Sister! with Marcie L. Thomas, featuring Rainie Howard
Live Well, Sister! with Marcie L. Thomas, featuring Rainie Howard
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Join us on Wednesday, August 21st, at 8:00 PM EDT for a conversation with special guest Rainie Howard about her forthcoming book, THE LOVE HABIT, which will be released on 09.10.24. . In The Love Habit, author and relationship expert Rainie Howard explores the profound connection between self-image and daily habits emotional, mental, and physical and how these actions shape our relationships wi...
BGC Book Club Presents: Phyllis R. Dixon, author of A TASTE FOR MOREBGC Book Club Presents: Phyllis R. Dixon, author of A TASTE FOR MORE
BGC Book Club Presents: Phyllis R. Dixon, author of A TASTE FOR MORE
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Join the BGC Book Club on Monday, August 19th at 8:00 PM EDT for a conversation with Phyllis R. Dixon about her latest novel, A TASTE FOR MORE. . Money is security. Always. Margo Dupree has lived by that rule since childhood, when her father’s death plunged her and her mother into poverty. Marriage brought only disillusionment and struggle. But it also gave Margo the determination to migrate No...

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  • @o.j.7619
    @o.j.7619 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Very important piece of the living will & trust! Folks don’t realize you don’t need to get married to establish these or the beneficiaries 🫶🏾 47:25

    • @BrownGirlCollective
      @BrownGirlCollective 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes! This is very important. Thanks for watching!

  • @botrrun9399
    @botrrun9399 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    True, New York is very segregated; there may be a lot of diversity, but that depends on how you define it. I am on the wait list for the book.

    • @BrownGirlCollective
      @BrownGirlCollective 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thanks for watching! I'm sure you will enjoy the book.

  • @melvylinpace1769
    @melvylinpace1769 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I’m from Texas … will be visiting your Instagram and FB… such helpful information. Love your helpful spirit… your accomplishments are amazing!

  • @melvylinpace1769
    @melvylinpace1769 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    How do sign up for your classes? Very interesting conversation…… I’m getting lots of feedback….

  • @cleta2045
    @cleta2045 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Oh Ms. Marci, so sorry I missed this live; the comments I could have made. 😁Another really good conversation.

    • @BrownGirlCollective
      @BrownGirlCollective 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Hello there! Thanks for watching! We could have gone on for hours, that's for sure! 😊

  • @kaydove6849
    @kaydove6849 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was a great black history information thanks for sharing I have all your books following your author page love all your books keep them flourish ING. Iam following and studying black history .

  • @botrrun9399
    @botrrun9399 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I listened to all 3, twice.

  • @botrrun9399
    @botrrun9399 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Does listening to audiobooks count toward reading?

    • @BrownGirlCollective
      @BrownGirlCollective หลายเดือนก่อน

      It does! I do a combination of both for some books.

  • @michaelreynolds8204
    @michaelreynolds8204 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you awesome

  • @myracook6857
    @myracook6857 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hello ladies

  • @nnekaruizmontalvo6573
    @nnekaruizmontalvo6573 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This conversation was amazing. I learned a lot and ordered the book. I can't wait to read it.

    • @BrownGirlCollective
      @BrownGirlCollective หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for watching! This book is still a go-to resource for me.

  • @catali033
    @catali033 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sounds interesting. Great interview and beautiful book cover.

  • @kellyporterwrites
    @kellyporterwrites 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great discussion! Land ownership is so important in our community.

    • @BrownGirlCollective
      @BrownGirlCollective 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for watching! Please spread the word about this important topic.

  • @markcoleman5920
    @markcoleman5920 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This conversation has been so informative, inspirational and freeing in ways I cannot even describe. Thank you so much for publishing this!

  • @catali033
    @catali033 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Enjoyable interview. I have not read any of Rhonda’s books, but better late than never.😊

    • @BrownGirlCollective
      @BrownGirlCollective 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!

  • @catali033
    @catali033 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The story sounds interesting. And a beautiful cover always catches my attention.

    • @BrownGirlCollective
      @BrownGirlCollective 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for tuning in! It is a wonderful story!

  • @elenah287
    @elenah287 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi Marcie! What an amazing interview. I only learned about Catherine and her book yesterday. I was hoping to learn more about her book and then found your channel. I loved the questions you asked her. You're a great interviewer. :)

    • @BrownGirlCollective
      @BrownGirlCollective 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks so much for watching and for your kind words, as well. I appreciate your support!

  • @catali033
    @catali033 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great interview!

  • @LaRosaReads
    @LaRosaReads 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I absolutely loved this book! Thank you for such a great interview 🫶🏾

  • @kellyporterwrites
    @kellyporterwrites 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Loved this conversation! It’s so true that we are impacted by how our parents were raised, and by their own personal struggles. It is taken me a lifetime to understand that.

    • @BrownGirlCollective
      @BrownGirlCollective 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks so much for watching and sharing a bit of your story. Our healing and "growth" are a lifelong journey.

  • @Richard-R-S
    @Richard-R-S 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for sharing some thoughts with insights Catherine, and also thanks also to Marcie.💐 God Bless with prayers, hugs&Love all🙏🏻🕊💜, Richard🚴🏻‍♀

  • @rachelbey7008
    @rachelbey7008 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great interview Marcie.

  • @b.b.3761
    @b.b.3761 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oh wow! I’m still reading Anywhere You Run but I’ll have to check this one out.

    • @BrownGirlCollective
      @BrownGirlCollective 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Please do! It's really good. Thanks for watching!

  • @solomonhamiltoniii5673
    @solomonhamiltoniii5673 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi.. this interview gave me great insights and understanding of your talent and how you relate and use your experiences and observations about life. Great🎉 and well done. I was assigned this book for my book club. But you really got me into the book.

    • @BrownGirlCollective
      @BrownGirlCollective 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching. Happy Reading!

  • @nailsslayher
    @nailsslayher 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Happy anniversary 🎉🎉🤎

  • @b.b.3761
    @b.b.3761 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome interview! I plan to pick it up at the library today here in Atlanta.

  • @rachelbey7008
    @rachelbey7008 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    THANKS SISTARS FOR AN INSPIRING EXCHANGE. i AM JUST NOW READING THE BOOK! BE WELL AND BLESSED.

    • @BrownGirlCollective
      @BrownGirlCollective 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for watching! Live Well, Sister!

  • @nailsslayher
    @nailsslayher 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love it here🤎 #sisterhood #blackgirlmagic

  • @kaytreenafairell6947
    @kaytreenafairell6947 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Augusta

  • @kellyporterwrites
    @kellyporterwrites 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fascinating discussion! I love these historical nonfiction narratives. Our stories are so important.

    • @BrownGirlCollective
      @BrownGirlCollective 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agreed! Thanks so much for watching!

  • @BooksbyRhonda
    @BooksbyRhonda 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great interview!

    • @BrownGirlCollective
      @BrownGirlCollective 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for watching, Rhonda! Looking forward to our next conversation.

  • @andretucker3810
    @andretucker3810 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I may have to move to DC to recruit for here north east California. There's none of us in the new promised land pun intended

  • @LizBroussard-v5c
    @LizBroussard-v5c 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The book was amazing. I just finished today. This book was written for me. I identified with all of it (I even had seen the documentary on Luna). I loved Delores and could fully understand her shortcomings and strengths. Thank you Denene Millner for your excellent book 👏🏼👏🏼

  • @kellyporterwrites
    @kellyporterwrites 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great interview! Dr. Akilah is very inspiring.

  • @teeahtate
    @teeahtate 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great interview.

  • @TheGardenFolksTV
    @TheGardenFolksTV 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @randomlytales
    @randomlytales 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love this. Hello all, from South Africa.

  • @abbymoncure4442
    @abbymoncure4442 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You ladies were great. Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed it. This book sounds very much like one would enjoy and appreciate putting their hands on to read. I ❤ it !

  • @KriRama
    @KriRama 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great interview 💗 One of the best books I’ve read in a long time! The narrative was definitely refreshing (not the typical story of enslaved Africans). I loved the dynamic between the characters of this book as well …very thought provoking. I’ll be following this author for sure …. Waiting for more! 💗

    • @BrownGirlCollective
      @BrownGirlCollective 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!

    • @KriRama
      @KriRama 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BrownGirlCollective The thought provoking part…. At first I thought the story was making “light” of the truth to be more palatable for a mainstream, white audience, but by the end I recognized how brilliantly written it was! I appreciate the many levels of privilege in the characters & how that pushed the narrative to new places for the reader to explore & contemplate.

  • @katehillier1027
    @katehillier1027 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Racially segregated liturgies. There was I thinking that liturgies are for ALL. I guess off putting black liturgies by their very titles are liturgical odes by the grievance industrial complex, the race relations industry; and the fruadelent seeking for reparations for horrors that happened two hundred years ago. not exactly enticing for me as a white ENGLISH woman who blacks racially label as beyond redemption. whilst africa enjoys slavery and selling of CHILD brides chucking all the shit it can at whites who have done some good. no country race is blameless. wish blacks werent so dishonest, toxic, off putting and because of woke RISKY.

  • @carolcrowley3040
    @carolcrowley3040 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    3/26/ 2024 I'm standing here in front of The Shombourg library, looking in the window at this book.

  • @javawatson1350
    @javawatson1350 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonderful & whimsical conversation ❤

  • @catali033
    @catali033 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice interview!!

  • @catali033
    @catali033 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great interview! I will be purchasing the beautiful book and the Audible. And boy oh boy do I look forward to her next book. Sounds very interesting.

    • @BrownGirlCollective
      @BrownGirlCollective 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for watching! You're going to love The American Queen.

  • @ycrayton2044
    @ycrayton2044 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Reading novel now, great background.