Grown Black Girls: FIFA World Cup African fashion, the evolution of Juneteenth, Skinfolk vs. Kinfolk (Black TV dad edition)
- Ashleigh Braggs
- Jul 7
- 2 min read
4 stories from our podcast you might have missed
The most recent episode of the Grown Black Girls podcast streamed Friday, July 3, and every other Friday morning at 10:30 a.m. CT. If you didn’t catch the second June episode, take a few moments to catch up now.
Is Juneteenth already about selling instead of celebrating?
“They want to sell-abrate.”
“For me Juneteenth was about celebrating the folks in the community.” Charity Clay describes youth celebrations, health screenings and other activity-driven events that were a part of her hometown Juneteenth celebrations. “Somebody would speak or the elders would do something, but now when you go to these celebrations, it’s just vendors in tents, and you just walk around.”
Start at 27:50 to hear Charity compare Juneteenths past to Juneteenths present and hear her hot take on why she thinks it should have never been made a federal holiday!
Are we the ones teaching the internet to hate on Black fathers?
“We know these spaces don’t want to make us look good."
In the wake of Father’s Day, our guest Dr. Leia Harper, asks if publicly bashing absent Black fathers online instead of celebrating present ones, teaches the algorithm to yield negative search results. "These ideas about Black fatherhood that are out there, the numbers don’t bear that out, statistics don’t support what these organizations that run social media want us to think about Black fathers, Black men and Black people in general. They kind of have their own agenda.”
Start at 48:15 to hear Leia question if the algorithm intentionally elevates certain voices at our expense.
The World Cup puts African luxury on display.
Natalie A. Collier describes her painstaking research into the one of her favorite looks players from an African country wore arriving at the FIFA World Cup. “It was an African designer. It was a diamond encrusted leopard with an emerald eye and a pearl. Very exciting. They also had this really nice leopard bag that you can now buy online. You couldn’t buy it before. ... Now you can buy it for $1700.” Before we can balk at the price point, Charity weighs in with the counterpoint.
“The ideas of luxury and high-quality fashion being associated with Europe and not Africa is a sham.”
Start at 54:35 to hear Natalie "nerd out” with exquisitely detailed descriptions of her two best dressed teams.
Play "Skinfolk or Kinfolk: Black tv dad edition"
“Why do shows with a successful dad have a stupid son?”
Once Charity points this out, we cannot unsee it. How far does this phenomenon go back? “The Cosby Show?” “Good Times?” Further? What do you think? Let us know.
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