Tracee Ellis Ross is an icon – and our favorite rich auntie

<a href="https://twitter.com/traceeellisross?lang=en">Tracee Ellis Ross</a> is an icon. From playing the premiere Black bachelorette, Joan Carol Clayton, on <em>Girlfriends</em> to becoming America's mom as Bow Johnson on <em>Black-ish</em>, 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 <em>Hair Tales</em>, and with her new podcast, <em>I Am America</em>. Host <a href="https://www.npr.org/people/1123917129/brittany-luse">Brittany Luse</a> talks with Tracee about her long and varied career, how she tackles storytelling through documentary and what it means to have rich auntie energy.<br><br><em>You can follow us on Twitter </em><a href="https://twitter.com/NPRItsBeenAMin"><em>@NPRItsBeenAMin</em></a><em> and email us at </em><a href="mailto:ibam@npr.org"><em>ibam@npr.org</em></a><em>.</em>