Buzzing: Tracee Ellis Ross Wants You to Know Yourself as Well as You Know Your Phone

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Tracee Ellis Ross Wants You to Know Yourself as Well as You Know Your Phone

“The same way you know your phone, know yourself”: Wise words from actress Tracee Ellis Ross, who, as you’re about to find out, is as deep as she is funny on her hit ABC comedy, Black-ish. Here, the 43-year-old—whose real middle name is Joy (“My mom said I could let it go professionally because I embodied it”)— talks with I Am That Girl’s co-founder Emily Greener about feminism, practicing “com- passionate activism,” and what it’s like having a living legend as a mom.“The same way you know your phone, know yourself”: Wise words from actress Tracee Ellis Ross, who, as you’re about to find out, is as deep as she is funny on her hit ABC comedy, Black-ish. Here, the 43-year-old—whose real middle name is Joy (“My mom said I could let it go professionally because I embodied it”)— talks with I Am That Girl’s co-founder Emily Greener about feminism, practicing “com- passionate activism,” and what it’s like having a living legend as a mom.

Published on July 8, 2016 at 03:15PM

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