So I just said, “Okay, I’m going to tell these stories exactly the way that I would tell it if I were talking to my friends.” My friends want their news short, sweet, and to the point. ![]() ![]() What I was doing for my friends wasn’t in a proper format, with all the journalistic standards for grammar, but they were entertained. At that time I just remember one of my friends saying, “You tell stories so well, why don't you just set up your own site?” And that was what led to the start of The Shade Room. Everybody had graduated, and all my friends were in grad school. So when I was unemployed after I had lost my job, I just started telling stories and then relaying those stories to my friends who were too busy to engage in that type of stuff. I was always interested in stories, whether it was people’s love life or what was happening in the media. ![]() She spoke about realizing your value, keeping a dream alive in the face of rejection, and what it’s been like working with Issa Rae and LaLa Anthony on her horror-comedy film, Juju.
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