After the release of her highly successful book I’m Still Here in 2018, Austin Channing Brown began a television show called The Next Question. TNQ’s goal was to engage with some of the country’s best minds in a conversation about race, dignity, justice, and hope. In the course of discussing her book with audiences and filming TNQ, Austin kept coming into contact with Black women whose stories had either not been told or had been told to benefit someone other than themselves. This unsurprising trend was being mirrored in all forms of media, from television to film to podcasts.
Building on that awareness, and cultivated by a desire to change that narrative, Austin assembled a team of courageous and creative women to build a home where Black women could create and produce their own stories and have a platform for getting those stories out into the world. Through the experience of seeing and hearing these stories, Austin and company want Black women to reconnect with a part of themselves many have long hid. A part full of childlike wonder, strength, curiosity, and joy. A part called: Herself.
Initial Sketch for HSM.
