Walking meditations for daily resistance.​

What is Black History Bootcamp?

GirlTrek’s Black History Bootcamp Podcast is a 21-day walking meditation series to remember where we came from and to gather strength for the road ahead. We celebrate Black stories and the lessons of our ancestors to help guide us through these uncertain times. Sign up to receive updates and specially curated emails with survival tips, speeches + dedicated songs to listen to for each episode.

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Our Stories

Each episode of Black History Bootcamp is a conversation between friends on strategies of survival, self-care and joy that we can learn through the lives of from Black history makers. Through stories of the past, we piece together a blueprint to support the health and happiness of Black women.

Season 6 - Black Neighborhoods

21 of the most notable Black addresses and the neighborhoods that surround them.

Season 5 - The Crews

21 notable crews that energized history

Season 4 - The Cosmonauts

21 Black women who dared to dream a new world.

Season 3 - The Prayer Edition

21 spiritual warriors who inspire us to keep the faith.

Season 2 - Acts of Resistance

21 powerful acts of resistance in Black culture.

Season 1 - The Foremothers

21 legendary and revolutionary Black women in history.

Special Edition

Bonus episodes that pay tribute to special moments of significance and impact.

Meet the Hosts

Co-founders of Girltrek, the largest health movement and nonprofit for Black women and girls in the United States. Ten years ago, 2 college friends, T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison, started a 10-week walking challenge that is now GirlTrek, a movement of 1 million Black women and counting.

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About GirlTrek

GirlTrek is the nation’s largest public health movement serving Black women and girls.

GirlTrek unapologetically serves the needs and desires of Black women by inspiring and mobilizing Black women everywhere to put themselves first by practicing radical self-care through walking and spending transformative time in nature and the outdoors. With each walk, with each challenge, with each 30-minute commitment completed, GirlTrek is creating a movement, a revolution centered on self-love. With 1 million members and counting, GirlTrek is the most effective public health solution in the country.

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