![]() The illustrations, done by artists Rachel Kallenbach, reflect that. So I refined the beauty in terms of what we’re able to do and not what we look like.” At the end of the day, that’s the one thing I can’t change – because I was born with that. I describe everything but that – but I state it in the premise – ‘Pretty Black Girl.’ Somebody pointed that out to me. “In the book, I never actually talk about what it means to be Black. The book costs $14.99 and you can buy it here. Jones hosted a Zoom reading for “Pretty Black Girl” last night and will continue to host them on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. Not just ‘pretty Black girls,’ but ‘pretty girls.’” I’m looking forward to the amazing dialog from the book. There’s a whole notion of beauty that all women have to conform to. Now that people are starting to get the book, I’m starting to see what the book means to them and learning more and more,” Jones adds. The incident first happened in March,” Jones says. “She told me, ‘Every girl needs to know this about herself.’ This whole thing will be a two-year journey in a couple of months. Her colleague told her that she needed to make “Pretty Black Girl” into a book. And my director was amazing and wasted no time addressing the situation and reprimanding the woman.” I shared it with my colleague and she told me that I needed to tell my boss what happened,” Jones remembers. In her downtime after the incident, Jones wrote “Pretty Black Girl.” “It was a poem. I didn’t understand why I didn’t feel pretty.” In that moment I needed to remind myself who I was. We were both nurses and she had never met me before but she thought that was so funny,” she adds. “What hurt more was that this was a colleague. But in that moment in the middle of the night – it was almost midnight at the time – I was at a loss for words. I went to the University of Wisconsin and I have two degrees I’m not a dummy. I felt like no matter what, people see me as dumb and ignorant. But in that moment, I felt like a big, ugly Black girl. ![]() I am a 6’1,” dark-skinned, full-figured Black female … I can hold my own. “It took everything within me to not resort to violence, to be honest with you. “I told her that Uchenna means ‘the will of God.’ She leans in and she says, ‘Oh, you mean ‘stupid ass,’ and she walked away.” Jones told her that her name was Uchenna and the woman asked what it meant. “I introduced myself as ‘Nurse Uno’ but my badge flipped over and she read my name and said, ‘But you go by a different name.’” While I was helping in a different department, a nurse approached me and asked me what my name was,” Jones recalls. Do you want to know all about the new TV series on Disney +? Make sure to subscribe and listen to The Lifestyle of Ameenha Lee Podcast.Ībout the show according to Google: "Set at East High School, "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series" introduces members of the drama club and their faculty advisers as they work their way toward the opening night of their school's first-ever production of "High School Musical: The Musical." New romances blossom, old friendships are tested to their limit while new ones are formed, rivalries flare, and lives are changed forever as these students discover the transformative power that only high school theater can provide.“I was working in a different department because I floated there. This TV show is about a group of kids who audition for the High School Musical play, but drama happens on and off the stage. On the other hand, my opinion changed once I watched the show. As a kid that loves old Disney, I wasn’t a fan of the series at first. Hello legendaries, in this podcast episode I reviewed High School Musical The Musical The Series( yes the title of the series is that long).
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