The "American Girl" franchise of dolls and books. Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen's empire. The Parent Trap. Was Meredith Blake really a villain? Just a few of the topics we're discussing in this official Season 2 kick-off of Nas-Talgia. Naseem is joined by her good friend, Gabriela Gonzalez, the founder of Modern Witnesses.

The girls discuss what it was like to grow up as women of color in schools that lacked diversity and the experience of looking up to teenage role models in the media who were predominantly white. Did that effect them or not? 

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