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2:20Now PlayingTracee Ellis Ross is an icon. From playing the premiere Black bachelorette, Joan Carol Clayton, on "Girlfriends" to becoming America's mom as Bow Johnson on "Black-ish," she's spent the past two decades portraying a paragon of Black womanhood on screen. More recently, Tracee's turned her focus toward uplifting the stories of real people – on her Hulu documentary "Hair Tales," and with her new podcast, "I Am America."
Host Brittany Luse talks with Tracee about her long and varied career, how she tackles storytelling through documentary and what it means to have rich auntie energy.
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