Special Edition | Sisterhood Saturday | September 2, 2023
Our Sisterhood Saturday calls are a time for all of us to celebrate and support one another. Listen in as we open up the lines to hear what's on the hearts and minds of Black women nationwide.
Special Edition | #DaughtersOf | Walk and Talk with Michelle Coltrane
Join Morgan and Vanessa in a first-ever #daugthersof Walk and Talk. Morgan and Vanessa talked with Michelle Coltrane about the wisdom and self-care secrets her iconic mother Alice passed down to her and what her mother's spiritual journey taught her about being her authentic self.
Special Edition | Sisterhood Saturday | August 5, 2023
Our Sisterhood Saturday calls are a time for all of us to celebrate and support one another. Listen in as we open up the lines to hear what's on the hearts and minds of Black women nationwide.
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Salute a Sister
“Everybody say Blessed.” We did it y’all! We walked for 21 days, journeying through 21 Pleasure Principles. We pray that over the past 21 episodes, you have learned the liberation stories of our people and that you have been transformed in ways that make you feel more alive. Now it’s time to Claim the Victory. What […]
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 20 | Zilpha Elaw
Pleasure Muse: Zilpha Elaw Tantalizing Trivia One of 22 children, she was born in 1790 in Pennsylvania to free Black parents. Her mother passed away when Zilpha was just 12 years old. Her father passed away two years later. She was sent to live in the home of a Quaker family. Soon after she would […]
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 19 | Gloria Richardson
Pleasure Muse: Gloria Richardson Tantalizing Trivia She was a Civil Rights activist who led The Cambridge Movement in the 1960s. Honored for her leadership, she sat on stage at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. She grew up in Baltimore but was from a prominent family – of landowners, lawyers, and politicians […]
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 18 | Rosa Parks
Pleasure Muse: Rosa Parks Tantalizing Trivia Her future husband took her on a first date to a rally for the “Scottsboro Boys”, nine Black men who were wrongly accused of rape. From that rally she became compelled to activism. She was educated on civil disobedience during her days at the famed Highlander School in Tennessee […]
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 17 | Myrlie Evers-Williams
Pleasure Muse: Myrlie Evers-Williams Tantalizing Trivia Raised by her grandmother, and an aunt, two respected school teachers in Vicksburg, MS. They encouraged education so in 1950 she attended Alcorn A&M where she pledged Delta Sigma Theta sorority and on her first day of school met and fell in love with Medgar Evers – they got married a year […]
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 16 | Wilma Rudolph
Pleasure Muse: WIlma Rudoplh Tantalizing Trivia She was the 20th of 22 children and weighed 4.5 pounds at birth. Her early health challenges included pneumonia, scarlet fever and polio. As an Olympic champion, and the first American woman to win three gold medals in one Olympics,, she was among the most highly visible black […]
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 15 | Oshun
Pleasure Muse: Oshun Tantalizing Trivia Oshun is a goddess deity, or orisha, of the Yoruba religion of West Africa. There are equivalent goddess figures in multiple cultures including as Oxum in Brazil and Ochun in Cuba. Tradition holds that Oshun comes from Osogbo, Nigeria. That city is considered sacred, and it is believed to be […]
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 14 | Bessie Springfield
Pleasure Muse: Bessie Springfield Tantalizing Trivia First Black woman to ride across the United States solo. At 16, taught herself to ride her first motorcycle, a 1928 Indian Scout. At 19, started her adventure across the American South at the height of the Jim Crow Era – on a Harley-Davidson. One of the few civilian […]
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 13 | Emma Dupree
Pleasure Muse: Emma Dupree Tantalizing Trivia: She was an herbalist and traditional healer who grew up on the Tar River in North Carolina. Her pioneering work serves as the basis for much of today’s herbal medicine movement. She was known for her “garden grown pharmacy” and grew everything from sassafras, white mint, double tansy, rabbit […]
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 12 | Lil Kim
Pleasure Muse: Lil Kim Tantalizing Trivia: She is the original “Queen Bee”, also known as the Queen of Rap and The First Lady of Rap. At 14, because of a tumultuous relationship with her father, she left home and started living on the streets; later she would drop out of high school for a short […]
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 11 | Naomi Sims
Pleasure Muse: Naomi Sims Tantalizing Trivia: Naomi Sims is the first Black supermodel in history – certainly, the first Black cover girl to land the featured cover photo in major magazines like Life and Cosmo in the 1960s and 1970s With a dark complexion, a thin body, and standing 5’ 10 she says she was […]
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 10 | Sharon Schaffer
Pleasure Muse: Sharon Schaffer Tantalizing Trivia She is the first Black woman to become a professional surfer and some of her work was featured in the opening of the Smithsonian African-American History Museum. She was a pioneer as a stunt double in Hollywood. As an actress she toured the country playing Harriet Tubman. She is […]
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 9 | Mary McLeod Bethune
Pleasure Muse: Mary McLeod Bethune Tantalizing Trivia Mary McLeod Bethune was not satisfied until Black girls were educated and free. Born in South Carolina to parents of enslaved Africans, she was the 15th of 17 children. She worked the cotton fields with her mother and each afternoon, walked 5 miles to school to learn to […]
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 8 | Toni Cade Bambara
Pleasure Muse: Toni Cade Bambara Tantalizing Trivia: Born Miltona Mirkin Cade, this author, activist, and professor, changed her name at the age of 6, to Toni. She then added Bambara to honor the West African ethnic group, Bambara. Her anthology, “Black Woman”, was the first feminist collection to focus on Black women. It included works […]
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 7 | Queen Afua
Pleasure Muse: Queen Afua Tantalizing Trivia Born Helen Odel Robinson changed her name to Queen Afua She was raised in Harlem at the height of the Black Nationalist Movement and was a community organizer. As a child, she suffered from asthma, allergies, eczema and debilitating cramps and at 15 years old, started a lifelong investigation, […]
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 5 | Dr. John Francis
Pleasure Muse: Dr. John Francis Tantalizing Trivia He gave up using motorized transportation and took a vow of silence that was intended to last one day. It lasted for 17 years. He completed three college degrees, including a Phd while silent. He walked across the United States and is referred to as the “Planet Walker”. […]
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 5 | Alice Coachman
Pleasure Muse: Alice Coachman Tantalizing Trivia Alice Coachman was the first Black woman from any country to win an Olympic gold medal. She was born in segregated Georgia and as a child picked cotton and sold peaches, pecans and plums to help support her family She rejected the patriarchy and segregationists, both telling her Black girls should not be […]
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 4 | Alice Coltrane
Pleasure Muse: Alice Coltrane Tantalizing Trivia At 29 she became a widow with four children after her husband, famed jazz musician, John Coltran, passed away. She founded an Ashram in the mountains of California and was an active healer, practicing energy work and laying of the hands. She entered a two year mourning period after […]
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 3 | Donna Summer
Pleasure Muse: Donna Summer Tantalizing Trivia Born to a working class family in Boston – her father was a butcher and her mother was a schoolteacher – her voice soared when she started singing solos in the AME church at 11 years old. She dropped out of high school to move to New York […]
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 2 | Dr. Sebi
Pleasure Muse: Dr. Sebi Tantalizing Trivia He grew up in Honduras and got his foundation in herbalism from his grandmother. He was arrested several times for practicing medicine without a license, but attracted a zealot following of believers who followed his lifestyle and diet advice. Nipsey Hustle called him an underdog hero and champion […]
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 1 | bell hooks
Pleasure Muse: bell hooks Tantalizing Trivia She was born Gloria Jean Johnson, but like a longline of Black women who refused to be defined by the narrowness of this world, when she was ready to step on the scene with her talent, she changed her pen name to bell hooks after her great-grandmother. She […]
GirlTrek 2023 Season Kickoff: Co-Founder Walk & Talk
GirlTrek Nation! Are you ready? The GirlTrek walking season has officially started!Join GirlTrek Co-Founders, Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison, as they chat about the road ahead on a special season kickoff episode. This season we are getting in the best shape of our lives by putting one foot in front of the other. You don’t […]
Special Edition l Harriet Tubman Celebration 2023
Join Co-founders Morgan and Vanessa on a Special Edition episode in honor of Harriet Tubman, broadcasting live from the streets of Auburn, NY.
Victory Lap: GirlTrek End of Season Celebration!
This year we set a goal to take over 1,000 of the Blackest neighborhoods. And we did that! With the help of our entire team. With the help of you! You made the decision to lead women in your neighborhood. You helped them start their own crew. And we want to celebrate every single one […]
Black Neighborhoods | Day 21 | Do you know what happened on the Edmund Pettus Bridge?
Day 21 The Address: The Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma The Story: “You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone—any person or any force—dampen, dim or diminish your light. Study the path of others to make your way easier and more abundant. Lean toward the whispers of your own heart, discover the universal […]
Black Neighborhoods | Day 20 | Have you heard about 16th Street Baptist Church?
Day 20 The Address: 16th Street Baptist Church The Story: Their names were Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins. They were on their way to a basement assembly hall for closing prayers on a Sunday morning. The explosion occurred around 10:20 a.m. It destroyed the rear end of the building. It […]
Black Neighborhoods | Day 19 | Where did the Blues really start?
Day 19 “The first time I met the blues The Address: 229 Highway 8, Cleveland, Mississippi. The Story: It’s called Dockery Farms. “Farms” is a rebrand. It was a back-breaking plantation in a small town in Mississippi. It’s walking distance from where Fannie Lou Hamer picked cotton. It’s a stone’s throw from “the crossroads,” where […]
