Black Boomer Besties from Brooklyn
This is what the world needs now: two free-thinking “seasoned” Black women speaking their truth and inspiring others to do the same. Shaped by 45 years of friendship that began at the prestigious Brooklyn Technical High School through the Ivy League, medical school, marriages, divorces, triumphs, parenting queer children, life-threatening illness and many many amazing adventures. Each week, besties Leslie Osei-Tutu and Angella Fraser will push against boundaries in love, culture, careers, faith, politics and out-dated assumptions about women of a certain age. Remember, you’re never too old to change your mind…or your hair! (but more on that later :-)All views are our own and do not reflect the views of our institution/company. Information provided is not intended to serve as medical advice.
Black Boomer Besties from Brooklyn
You Gotta Have Faith-Part 1
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Angella Fraser & Leslie Osei-Tutu
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Season 1
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Episode 4
Why would it take two Jesus-adoring people more than a decade to get through one collective reading of the Bible? In their usual humorous way Angella and Leslie discuss the origins of their faith traditions in Jamaica and Brooklyn, their unconventional Bible study dynamics and how Saturday mornings became a time of connection, contemplation and sometimes conflict.
Notes:
- Correction- Former Alabama Governor and segregationist George Wallace, not Senator McGovern, was paralyzed from the waist down during an assassination attempt in 1972.
- Correction- The church where generations of my family worshiped is Concord Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, not Our Lady of Victory which is the Catholic school my mother attended as a child.
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