Actor, director, and entrepreneur Kimberly Elise graces our presence on this week’s episode and y’all have her to thank for our new selfie-stick pics. You Might Know Her From Set It Off, Beloved, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Almost Christmas, For Colored Girls…, Hit the Floor, Woman Thou Art Loosed, John Q, and Ad Astra. Kimberly met us on our field trip to Los Angeles to talk her role in lesbian culture as a cast member in Set It Off, playing a teenager in her late twenties opposite Oprah Winfrey, and going vegan and creating her own business with her daughter. We are thinking of going vegan for a month and having K.E. coach us. Should we? We need the square jaw results, ya know?

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Discussed this week:

Natalie Wood’s rapist turns 103

Encore on Disney+ (1st episode “Annie” and teacher, Mrs DiPuma)

The importance of Set it Off and its lesbian following

Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)

Beloved (1998) 

Opran & Beloved 

Black American Cinema of the 90s was Filled with Promise

Diary of a Mad Blackwoman and Cicely Tyson (aka Miss Jane Pittman)

How Black Cinema Rose Again

Playing an astronaut in Ad Astra

Apple Mortgage Cake Woman Kimberlyelisenaturals.com

Kimberly Elise & Latifah in Star

Kimberly brandishing a rifle in Almost Christmas

Which states are in the midwest?

Vegan face: Ellen; Bill Clinton