Intersections with Phil Allen, Jr.        

Episode: 009 “2020: The Year of the Black Woman”

Airdate: November 30, 2020

Length: 1:16:46

Guest: Camille Tucker

This episode with Camille Tucker continues the conversation of race, gender, and faith in Hollywood. Camille grew up as one of the “first daughters of Compton,” when her father Walter Tucker, Jr. was mayor of Compton, CA. She credits her activism, writing—her mother, Martha Tucker, is a writer—and being grounded in her faith to the influence of her parents. As an accomplished writer, director, and producer you can see the richness of these traits in her work. You can also hear her passion for all three in her voice in this conversation.

Camille does give us hope that as Hollywood, like so many other industries, has more progress that needs to be made as it relates to opportunities for African American women, there are Black women filling seats “at the table” of decision-making right now as we speak. She declares this is the “year of the Black woman;” whether in politics or Hollywood. Take this “sweet potato ride” (you’ll get the reference when you listen to the episode) with Camille and I as we delve into her journey as a writer and her experience co-writing the Clark Sisters movie. Come and park with us at this intersection of race, culture, and theology in the heart of Hollywood.   

See more on Camille at camilletucker.com.

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Phil Allen, Jr. is a Los Angeles-based pastor, social justice activist, filmmaker and author. Allen’s book Open Wounds explores the murder of Nate Allen—Phil Allen’s grandfather—in the Jim Crow era of South Carolina and how that traumatic event resonated through generations of his family. Open Wounds – which is based on the Allen-produced documentary of the same name – will be published February 9, 2021. Allen is a Ph.D. student studying Christian ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA.