December 1, 2023 • 9 mins
Guest host Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati speaks to Fleacé Weave, founder of Globalnista formerly Black Girl Travel. https://www.globalnista.com/
For her monthly feature “What is Philadephia Reading?” Vanesse speaks to Kyle Stokes of Urbantoons - children's author and illustrator.
For her monthly feature “What is Philadephia Reading?” Vanesse speaks to Kyle Stokes of Urbantoons - children's author and illustrator.
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(00:00):
Good morning, and welcome to Insight. I show about empowering our community.
I'm Lorraine Ballard Marlin. As wedo once a month every month, we
have the fantastic, the fabulous,fantabulous Vaness Lloyd's Gumbadi world traveler, founder
of the literary founder of the AfricanAmerican Children's Book Fair, and also just
someone who's all about culture and thearts and travel. Good to see you
(00:22):
again, Well, thank you somuch. I just got back from my
trip and as I mentioned, Iwas away, but sometimes you don't tell
people you are away when you're away. And I went to London, mart
Zein, I went to Cornwall,I went to Wells. I went to
Paris three times on that trip.Rome and Greece. I'm sure I left
(00:45):
something. Oh and I went toPrague and it was amazing. This morning,
I have a guest who's going toshare some travel Insight, because you
know I'm all about the travel.And you know, folks, it's that
month. I've been talking about itsince January. It's your birthday month,
yes, and it's my favorite monthof the year. All my favorite people
are born in December. My sonis the first, my granddaughter, my
(01:07):
significant other and I am going tobe partying all month long. But before
we get down to business, Iwant to also tell people there's a lot
of stuff happening in the city.Do not let yourself be locked in,
get out, go to visit Phillydot com and there's something for everyone.
And if you want to get onthe road, jay Z's exhibit is still
(01:29):
in New York, Alicia Keys andswitzbed has an exhibit. So there's a
lot of fun stuff happening. Andyou know, Amtrak's has got some chief
faars. It's cheap. It's fifteendollars sometime. What That's what I say.
But another item I want to mentionis the African American Children's Book Fair
thirty second Pennsylvania Convention Center, Saturday, February third, So please please please
(01:52):
get your kids, come out thetop names in the industry and you'll be
hearing more about that in the comingmonths. Now. Fo you know,
I love to travel, and thismorning I have the Queen of Travel and
she's got some insight on especially forall of you who who have everything and
want to travel, but don't wantto travel. You don't have friends,
(02:13):
They sitting on the sideline buying allthose luxury brand handbags and they should be
out seeing the world. And hername is Phelipe Weaver. I first met
her the month I believe it wasMarch twenty twenty. I called her up.
I wanted her to be on theprogram and she said to me,
look, I'm packing up and I'mleaving Milan, and that was the last
(02:36):
we spoke. So I'm glad toreconnect with her. She is the founder.
Used to be Black Girl Travel,but now it's called Globalisa. So
thank you for taking time out ofyour busy schedule because you're in Dubai.
Yes, I am. Over thepast couple of days, I had a
number of conversations with her, andshe floats from Dubai to Milan, Portugal
(02:57):
like people go up and down,west and south Fillladelphia. So how did
you get into that arena? Ihave to say a lot of people say,
oh, you know, I'm socourageous to be doing this, But
I have always been a bit nomadicas a child. You know, everyone
else was trying to keep their childrenin the house, or the kids were
clinging to their parents. I wasalways out the door, going somewhere.
(03:20):
In college, my family never knewwhere I was because I was always traveling
and going somewhere, So this isjust natural for me. Traveling for me
is like breathing. Well, you'rea black woman and you're traveling to places
that you don't see a lot ofblack Americans. You see a lot of
people from the continent, from Africa, but not from the United States.
(03:40):
But you seem to have made alife in Europe traveling from place to place.
And I really want to make surewe talk about this big tour that
you've organized for Tina Turner. BlackGirl Travel started seventeen years ago, and
when we started, I agree withyou one hundred percent that not very many
black black women from the United Stateswas traveling. But here we are seventeen
(04:02):
years later, and we're everywhere.You know. I remember when I first
moved to Rome, and I wouldtalk about how few black people were there.
And then all of a sudden,you know, people were learning about
us. You know, other agencywere coming along, following in our footpaths,
and now we're everywhere. We're absolutelyeverywhere. It's it's you know,
(04:24):
even today, I was at theDubai Mall and I saw someone staring at
me and she walked over and shesaid, are you Felie Weaver, And
I'm like, yes, i am, and I'm like all the way here
in Dubai, like people know me, so yeah, we're everywhere. Tell
us about this tour that you've organizedfor Tina Turnert. Our company name now
is Global Mista Globinista dot com.But you can actually just go to black
(04:47):
girl Travel dot com and it willautomatically take you over to the new brand.
I have always been inspired by TinaTurnert, like so many of you
know, so many others, butI've always like colored outside the I've always
marched to my own drummer, andshe was always an inspiration for me,
and also being a survivor of domesticabuse, we were like kindred spirits.
(05:09):
And when she passed away, Isaid, I need to do something to
celebrate this woman, and I wantedto do it in a way that would
tie other black women into the celebration. And I was like, why not
create a tour around the things thatshe loved, Create a tour around you
know, her passions, you know, and the city or the country that
(05:30):
she loved. She did live inZurich for a number of years. Switzerland
was her base. But I seeyou have Zurich and Amsterdam on the tour,
and I didn't know she had aconnection to Amsterdam. Amsterdam was a
big city for her. Europe ingeneral, she was more popular in Europe
than she ever was in the UnitedStates. And of course Zurich and Amsterdam.
I'm in Switzerland, Amsterdam being soclose that absolutely that was one of
(05:56):
her favorite cities to visit. Andwhen I was doing the research, people
were telling me all the things aboutwhen she was there, you know,
the performances that she'd done, thatshe had done there, and how much
people really loved her. So andI just wanted to bring African Americans into
her backyard. Are they going togo to places where she lived when she
ate, especially once we get intoSwitzerland, you know, because actually she
(06:18):
lived a little in the suburbs ofof Zurich. So yes, we're going
to go there. We're actually goingto go to one of the restaurants that
I actually got a chance to seeher in some years ago when I was
visiting there with an ex boyfriend.She was actually at the restaurant that night.
And we're going to actually go intothe town that she lived in and
We're actually we're going to go tothe shops, and we're going to go
(06:39):
to the restaurants, and we're eventhe park that people say she loves sitting
in this one park and just lookingout over the river. We're going to
do all those things. We're actuallygoing to be in her footsteps. It
sounds so amazing. So tell uswhen the tour begins and how to get
in contact with you. The touris September seventeenth to the twenty fifth,
(07:00):
and to contact us, you simply, I'll go to Globalista dot com.
Is that if that's hard to remember, just Blackgirltravel dot com and it will
automatically take you over to our websiteand just look for the link for Tina
Turna. You know, she hasbeen written up in so many important news
media outlets. She's been on TV. The New York Times annointed her the
(07:23):
Queen of Black Girl Travel. Sofolks definitely reach out to her, and
it sounds exciting to be able tofollow in the footsteps of Tina Turner.
Thank you so much, thank you, thank you, and thank you for
thinking of me. And hopefully itwon't take another pandemic for us to come
together. We've come to one ofthe favorite parts of this segment. I
(07:46):
love, love love knowing what Philadelphiais reading. And my guest this morning
is Kyle Stokes. He's the founderof Urban Tunes and he's also working on
an interesting project of someone that Lorraineconnect me to and it's fathers and children
together and they're doing a comic bookand I'm sure they'll be back later in
the month of December to talk aboutthat. But Kyle's going to be featured
(08:09):
at the African American Children's Book Fair, so I wanted to have him on
this show this morning. So Kyle, thank you, thank you for having
me, and happy early birthday toyou. So tell me what is it
that you actually do. I amthe author, publisher, illustrator, and
animator. He reproduced comic book Charactersof Black Fables and it's really really amazing
(08:31):
what he's done. So we wantto find out what Kyle is reading.
You ready, yes, ma'am,what book are you reading right now?
I'm reading Boss Up by Rick Ross. First book you read, Black Star
Line. Best book you've read,The autobiography of Malcolm X. Worst book
you've read, don't have one?Your go to author, Napoleon Hill,
Langston Hughes and Maya Angelo. Buyeror borrower buyer? What book should everyone
(08:56):
have in their library? The Secretby Randa Burns? Fiction or nonfiction?
Nonfiction? You have a literary dinnernamed three people from the literary community.
You must have Marcus Garvey, LangstonHughes and Maya Angelo. Wow, that
sounds like a nice dinner. Ifyou wrote a book about your life,
what would be the title The Artof the Revolutionary? Well, we look
(09:16):
forward to seeing you in February andcontinue great work with that project. And
folks, as always, continued toread by book and have a blessed day.
This is Vanessa Lloyd's Combodi Bls Journey. See you next month, and
I'm Lorraine Ballard Marrow. We'll havemore insight after these messages.
Good morning, and welcome to Insight. I show about empowering our community.
I'm Lorraine Ballard Marlin. As wedo once a month every month, we
have the fantastic, the fabulous,fantabulous Vaness Lloyd's Gumbadi world traveler, founder
of the literary founder of the AfricanAmerican Children's Book Fair, and also just
someone who's all about culture and thearts and travel. Good to see you
(00:22):
again, Well, thank you somuch. I just got back from my
trip and as I mentioned, Iwas away, but sometimes you don't tell
people you are away when you're away. And I went to London, mart
Zein, I went to Cornwall,I went to Wells. I went to
Paris three times on that trip.Rome and Greece. I'm sure I left
(00:45):
something. Oh and I went toPrague and it was amazing. This morning,
I have a guest who's going toshare some travel Insight, because you
know I'm all about the travel.And you know, folks, it's that
month. I've been talking about itsince January. It's your birthday month,
yes, and it's my favorite monthof the year. All my favorite people
are born in December. My sonis the first, my granddaughter, my
(01:07):
significant other and I am going tobe partying all month long. But before
we get down to business, Iwant to also tell people there's a lot
of stuff happening in the city.Do not let yourself be locked in,
get out, go to visit Phillydot com and there's something for everyone.
And if you want to get onthe road, jay Z's exhibit is still
(01:29):
in New York, Alicia Keys andswitzbed has an exhibit. So there's a
lot of fun stuff happening. Andyou know, Amtrak's has got some chief
faars. It's cheap. It's fifteendollars sometime. What That's what I say.
But another item I want to mentionis the African American Children's Book Fair
thirty second Pennsylvania Convention Center, Saturday, February third, So please please please
(01:52):
get your kids, come out thetop names in the industry and you'll be
hearing more about that in the comingmonths. Now. Fo you know,
I love to travel, and thismorning I have the Queen of Travel and
she's got some insight on especially forall of you who who have everything and
want to travel, but don't wantto travel. You don't have friends,
(02:13):
They sitting on the sideline buying allthose luxury brand handbags and they should be
out seeing the world. And hername is Phelipe Weaver. I first met
her the month I believe it wasMarch twenty twenty. I called her up.
I wanted her to be on theprogram and she said to me,
look, I'm packing up and I'mleaving Milan, and that was the last
(02:36):
we spoke. So I'm glad toreconnect with her. She is the founder.
Used to be Black Girl Travel,but now it's called Globalisa. So
thank you for taking time out ofyour busy schedule because you're in Dubai.
Yes, I am. Over thepast couple of days, I had a
number of conversations with her, andshe floats from Dubai to Milan, Portugal
(02:57):
like people go up and down,west and south Fillladelphia. So how did
you get into that arena? Ihave to say a lot of people say,
oh, you know, I'm socourageous to be doing this, But
I have always been a bit nomadicas a child. You know, everyone
else was trying to keep their childrenin the house, or the kids were
clinging to their parents. I wasalways out the door, going somewhere.
(03:20):
In college, my family never knewwhere I was because I was always traveling
and going somewhere, So this isjust natural for me. Traveling for me
is like breathing. Well, you'rea black woman and you're traveling to places
that you don't see a lot ofblack Americans. You see a lot of
people from the continent, from Africa, but not from the United States.
(03:40):
But you seem to have made alife in Europe traveling from place to place.
And I really want to make surewe talk about this big tour that
you've organized for Tina Turner. BlackGirl Travel started seventeen years ago, and
when we started, I agree withyou one hundred percent that not very many
black black women from the United Stateswas traveling. But here we are seventeen
(04:02):
years later, and we're everywhere.You know. I remember when I first
moved to Rome, and I wouldtalk about how few black people were there.
And then all of a sudden,you know, people were learning about
us. You know, other agencywere coming along, following in our footpaths,
and now we're everywhere. We're absolutelyeverywhere. It's it's you know,
(04:24):
even today, I was at theDubai Mall and I saw someone staring at
me and she walked over and shesaid, are you Felie Weaver, And
I'm like, yes, i am, and I'm like all the way here
in Dubai, like people know me, so yeah, we're everywhere. Tell
us about this tour that you've organizedfor Tina Turnert. Our company name now
is Global Mista Globinista dot com.But you can actually just go to black
(04:47):
girl Travel dot com and it willautomatically take you over to the new brand.
I have always been inspired by TinaTurnert, like so many of you
know, so many others, butI've always like colored outside the I've always
marched to my own drummer, andshe was always an inspiration for me,
and also being a survivor of domesticabuse, we were like kindred spirits.
(05:09):
And when she passed away, Isaid, I need to do something to
celebrate this woman, and I wantedto do it in a way that would
tie other black women into the celebration. And I was like, why not
create a tour around the things thatshe loved, Create a tour around you
know, her passions, you know, and the city or the country that
(05:30):
she loved. She did live inZurich for a number of years. Switzerland
was her base. But I seeyou have Zurich and Amsterdam on the tour,
and I didn't know she had aconnection to Amsterdam. Amsterdam was a
big city for her. Europe ingeneral, she was more popular in Europe
than she ever was in the UnitedStates. And of course Zurich and Amsterdam.
I'm in Switzerland, Amsterdam being soclose that absolutely that was one of
(05:56):
her favorite cities to visit. Andwhen I was doing the research, people
were telling me all the things aboutwhen she was there, you know,
the performances that she'd done, thatshe had done there, and how much
people really loved her. So andI just wanted to bring African Americans into
her backyard. Are they going togo to places where she lived when she
ate, especially once we get intoSwitzerland, you know, because actually she
(06:18):
lived a little in the suburbs ofof Zurich. So yes, we're going
to go there. We're actually goingto go to one of the restaurants that
I actually got a chance to seeher in some years ago when I was
visiting there with an ex boyfriend.She was actually at the restaurant that night.
And we're going to actually go intothe town that she lived in and
We're actually we're going to go tothe shops, and we're going to go
(06:39):
to the restaurants, and we're eventhe park that people say she loves sitting
in this one park and just lookingout over the river. We're going to
do all those things. We're actuallygoing to be in her footsteps. It
sounds so amazing. So tell uswhen the tour begins and how to get
in contact with you. The touris September seventeenth to the twenty fifth,
(07:00):
and to contact us, you simply, I'll go to Globalista dot com.
Is that if that's hard to remember, just Blackgirltravel dot com and it will
automatically take you over to our websiteand just look for the link for Tina
Turna. You know, she hasbeen written up in so many important news
media outlets. She's been on TV. The New York Times annointed her the
(07:23):
Queen of Black Girl Travel. Sofolks definitely reach out to her, and
it sounds exciting to be able tofollow in the footsteps of Tina Turner.
Thank you so much, thank you, thank you, and thank you for
thinking of me. And hopefully itwon't take another pandemic for us to come
together. We've come to one ofthe favorite parts of this segment. I
(07:46):
love, love love knowing what Philadelphiais reading. And my guest this morning
is Kyle Stokes. He's the founderof Urban Tunes and he's also working on
an interesting project of someone that Lorraineconnect me to and it's fathers and children
together and they're doing a comic bookand I'm sure they'll be back later in
the month of December to talk aboutthat. But Kyle's going to be featured
(08:09):
at the African American Children's Book Fair, so I wanted to have him on
this show this morning. So Kyle, thank you, thank you for having
me, and happy early birthday toyou. So tell me what is it
that you actually do. I amthe author, publisher, illustrator, and
animator. He reproduced comic book Charactersof Black Fables and it's really really amazing
(08:31):
what he's done. So we wantto find out what Kyle is reading.
You ready, yes, ma'am,what book are you reading right now?
I'm reading Boss Up by Rick Ross. First book you read, Black Star
Line. Best book you've read,The autobiography of Malcolm X. Worst book
you've read, don't have one?Your go to author, Napoleon Hill,
Langston Hughes and Maya Angelo. Buyeror borrower buyer? What book should everyone
(08:56):
have in their library? The Secretby Randa Burns? Fiction or nonfiction?
Nonfiction? You have a literary dinnernamed three people from the literary community.
You must have Marcus Garvey, LangstonHughes and Maya Angelo. Wow, that
sounds like a nice dinner. Ifyou wrote a book about your life,
what would be the title The Artof the Revolutionary? Well, we look
(09:16):
forward to seeing you in February andcontinue great work with that project. And
folks, as always, continued toread by book and have a blessed day.
This is Vanessa Lloyd's Combodi Bls Journey. See you next month, and
I'm Lorraine Ballard Marrow. We'll havemore insight after these messages.
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