Tracee Ellis Ross is an icon. From playing the premiere Black bachelorette, Joan Carol Clayton, on
Girlfriends to becoming America's mom as Bow Johnson on
Black-ish, she's spent the past two decades portraying a paragon of Black womanhood on screen. More recently, Tracee's turned her focus toward uplifting the stories of real people – on her Hulu documentary
Hair Tales, and with her new podcast,
I Am America. Host
Brittany Luse talks with Tracee about her long and varied career, how she tackles storytelling through documentary and what it means to have rich auntie energy.
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