Black History Bootcamp is Back with The Cosmonauts
Set your alarms! You are invited. This Monday at 9am PT/12pm ET. Thousands of us will set off on a 21-day adventure. So, grab your earbuds. Open your front doors. Let’s go outside!
Black History Bootcamp is back for Women’s History Month with a brand-new edition of the viral walking podcast. Thousands have walked with us live and millions have downloaded episodes. This is your personal invitation on the journey towards self-discovery.
THE COSMONAUTS
21 Black Women Who Were Ahead of Their Time
This Women’s History Month take flight with GirlTrek as we set out on a 21-day journey to walk and talk about the Black women who dared to dream a new world for us. These women are the culture-makers, the rabble-rousers, the artists, and architects. All of them, Cosmonauts. Explorers. Black women who dared to voyage to the farthest edges of this earth, and beyond, in search of freedom and liberation.
Their stories transcend space and time. Stories of bravery and courage, of women who refused to shrink and who dared to challenge the status quo. These are the stories of women who were ahead of their time.
What do we have to learn from these shapeshifters? Women who defied odds for a living and learned to create from their own vivid imagination new archetypes for Black women. These ancestors left behind a trail of stardust and a roadmap to our very own healing. Come walk with us each day as we set out on an expedition to uncover the lessons and hidden gems that they left behind.
Join us live every day March 1-29, 2021
9am PT | 10am MT | 11am CT | 12pm ET
Weekdays, March 1 - 29, 2021
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Day 1: Cicely Tyson
Day 2: Josephine Baker
Day 3: Aretha Franklin
Day 4: Celia Cruz
Day 5: Gladys Bentley
Day 6: Nefertiti
Day 7: Sister Souljah
Day 8: Harriet Tubman
Day 9: Combahee River Collective
Day 10: Phillis Wheatley
Day 11: Afeni Shakur
Day 12: Moms Mabley
Day 13: Lorraine Hansberry
Day 14: Mary Bowser
Day 15: Diana Ross
Day 16: Katherine Dunham
Day 17: Alice Walker
Day 18: Mahalia Jackson
Day 19: Annetta M. Lane & Harriet Taylor
Day 20: Queen Nzinga
Day 21: Mae Jemison
Update on COVID Guidelines and Group Walks:
Your health is our top priority. Please refrain from group walks until the COVID vaccine is widely available to the people. We’ve lost too many. Let’s stay the course for safety. We promise we will keep you laughing, connected, and fired up through the podcast. We are hoping, praying and body-rolling for God (and his army of scientists) to please clear the way for us to launch GirlTrek’s official season on May 1, 2021. The world ain’t even ready for the takeover of every park, every street, every Black neighborhood around the world. Stay tuned for “activation April” where we will give you everything you need to be the captain of your neighborhood’s weekly trek. We’re excited.
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