What Tracee Ellis Ross learned from her mom

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May 5, 2018
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Actress Tracee Ellis Ross talks to CNN's Van Jones about what lessons she learned from singer Diana Ross.

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Christopher Ramon-Reid3 months ago
The interviewer doesn’t really let Tracee speak!!!!
danae hawkins4 months ago
Tracee, talks too much! not a. Good actress!
Tots Mini5 months ago
What an Adorable Personality - God pulled out all the stops when He created Woman..... in particular this woman :) :) :) - She's got it all!!
jenMalfoy8 months ago
I could listen to Tracee talk all day. The grace and passion with which she expresses herself truly opens the conversation in a way that seems compassionate and not intimidating.
Aboutjohn7478 months ago
The Ross family is one of the best families in the WORLD.
jinae di nisci8 months ago
She's annoying
Cheryl Rodgers9 months ago
Awesome “Lady” Woman.
Guy Will10 months ago
She really is a brilliant woman. She represents women everywhere
Alejandra Fretes10 months ago
why won't this man let Tracee answer the QUESTIONS OMG
Dede Smid11 months ago
While I think this lady is wonderful..if you watch documentaries about the Supremes..you will find her mother was not a nice person..
SassyBratt110 months ago
Ironic that Tracee is the type that stands up for women. Could you imagine how Tracee would have perceived the treatment of Florence Ballard of the Supremes by Berry Gordy and Diana back in the day? I imagine she would have gotten in their faces and defended Florence vigorously!
Volvican11 months ago
I'm so happy she said, 'iconic American family'. Quit limiting her and her show.
Mendy Peters11 months ago
Unpopular Opinion: I always get a strange feeling ( like in my gut) when I hear or see black men who married white women speak on black women's' issues or stand on a pro-black platform. I don't know what it is cuz I dont care about peoples lives, especially celebs. but when they're on a " I love my culture so much" platform .. I guess I question their authenticity like Y should I support you? you chose to cross over (which is beautiful) but don't try to come back, like this is what you are into, stop pretending. It's a very conscious choice ( as a man) to surround urself and and go out and seek a specific kind of mate.. you know what I mean.. so much of these guys all have white wives, I just don't get it, like are they trying to make up for marrying a nonblack woman? are they forced to do so ? it boggles my mind I tell ya. I don't even know if I'm making sense. I'm just trying to figure out why I feel this way.. It's kinda like ..how dare you have your cake! and try to eat it too. just stick to ur lane(that uuuuuuuuuuuu've chosen.)
Jazmin Truesdale4 months ago
I think it's more of a testament to who you're around. The higher up the socioeconomic/success ladder you go the fewer black people you see. Diana Ross had two white husbands but managed to raise children who are socially conscious and proud of their blackness. One of her husbands was a Norwegian billionaire. Diana Ross's success had her in the most elite and exclusive socialite circles in the world. How many black people do you think were on that level?...not many. Speaking from experience, I date the people I'm around the most and unfortunately, When I'm doing business or attending social events in my industry there are not many black people there. It's quite sad to say that.
MOWESTMOTOWNYear ago
ALWAYS LOVED Your Mon and Now I have YOU too Contiue On Lookin' Up Too as Diana's Daughter. LOVE How YOU Express Yourself Fully.
Shamaneika JohnsonYear ago
I love Tracee .
Matilda MartinYear ago
Isn't Tracy Ellis Ross half Jewish also how can she just no acknowledge that and just say she's just black. I don't know I think she's trying to hard.
clouds overnyc9 months ago
Because jewish people rule the world thats why, and because when they put some black people on tv like on the news they always pick someone with a scarf on that has teeth missing, because she is trying to make up for all of that stupid shit that they try to pin on us black people.
An American SchemeYear ago
Diana Ross was the 14 year old real Mother of Michael Jackson.
James WaughYear ago
Miss Diana Ross has done an AMAZING job raising her kids!!!.
SassyBratt110 months ago
I think Tracee has more Robert Ellis Silberstein in her than Diana Ross.
V WilliamsYear ago
Not surprised, James.
An American SchemeYear ago
James Waugh how would the Media understand my true Story??? Diana is in Bed with Smokey and Berry. The Jackson's lose everything if MJ is not a Blood Member of the Family. So who's talking, no one. I found the truth, and i'm telling it. I would tell you to watch video #3 so you know how it all started.
James WaughYear ago
V Williams, of course he wasn't there lol!!!. He doesn't even know the MEANING of the word SLANDER ROFL!!!. This is one SICK INDIVIDUAL who should NOT be allowed ANYWHERE NEAR youtube lol!!!. If it was true, then THE WHOLE WORLD would have heard about it and it would have been ALL OVER THE WORLD MEDIA ROFL!!!. Every single one of his videos are full of HEARSAY, SPECULATION, WHAT IFS and DOWNRIGHT LIES!!!.
An American SchemeYear ago
V Williams are you talking to me? You must be talking to me, i'm the only one here lol.
Crowdfund77Year ago
Colourism...
sam4lemarYear ago
I love her so much she speaks & I just wanna listen to everything she has to say. Such a smart, beautiful & wise women.
PranchobabyYear ago
I agree trace is well on ever to becoming an icon. She is not down to earth but intelligent you want to listen to what she has to say . Because she is TRACI
HEART BREAKERYear ago
She didn't learn crap from her mother! I knew her mother Diana, long before she was born and she was a very beautiful, humble, classy woman, who never tried to show off and be obnoxious plus, unlike her mom, her daughter Tracee is a racist!
An American SchemeYear ago
HEART BREAKER I'm proving Diana ross got Pregnant at 14 years old by Smokey Robinson. Then they gave their Baby Michael to an old Friend of Berry Gordy's named Joe Jackson.
witch, pleaseYear ago
The amount of racist comments say it all about White Americans. They are obsessed with Black people despite all their hate. They're infatuated.
Alyssa FreitasYear ago
shes so beautiful
alexdapostmanYear ago
Michelle Obama Champion of Women why didn't you come out in support of Gina Haspel as the first woman as C.I.A. Deputy Director. Things that make say hmm! I'm just saying. I want a good and credible explaination.
PowerfulPapiYear ago
Wow, That idiot Trump has really emboldened the BIGOTS that troll on MReporter. Good to see however that decent, intelligent people on here still manage to win the day. Love you Tracee. Also, Love to Diana and to the Former First Lady Michelle too.
Vaughn AlvarezYear ago
She had to keep correcting him in the interview.
PeaceFan1Year ago
HOW can she say that the Cosby Thing is " Nuanced" ?? He is a Serial RAPIST, It is Very CLEAR!!!! Hellooooo Tracee!!
Anthony Winn10 months ago
PeaceFan1 I think ppl who know him and she does since she was a little girl they are being careful of what they say bcuz they kno him in a different way and no matter what he did she's not excusing it but she still know him as a good person. People are still shocked
James BrownYear ago
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS IS SMART & WELL SPOKEN...SHE IS A GREAT ROLE MODEL FOR BLACK PEOPLE.
V WilliamsYear ago
She is a great role model for ALL people!!
The Proud MississippianYear ago
Ol Tracee Silberstein...representing black America.
zebjugYear ago
How coonish.
DismalYear ago
She has a fat ass. She used to be my neighbor
xxnike629xxYear ago
Dr. Rainbow Johnson!! It would've been more fun with Andre Johnson on here..
Ryan LombardiYear ago
van jones is a racist.
Crowdfund77Year ago
Tell that to his wife.
Linda WillisYear ago
#SaveCosbyWork
robert stanleyYear ago
I dont understand why so many dislikes!?
witch, pleaseYear ago
White people
TheReturnofStephan1Year ago
@robert stanley Read my comment at the top of the page.
Detrick one-offs & More.Year ago
Dam now that im watching these two, I can't help but notice how White they are. Black people Navigating the world as white people. Go ahead you can be black go ahead it ok you do know you are black right?
Anthony Winn10 months ago
Tone Log Vintage Replica's 1966 why we as black people always putting down other black people especially if they are educated speak well and not talk Ebonics it's sad.
V WilliamsYear ago
Exactly, witch!!!
Detrick one-offs & More.Year ago
Thay are trying to push an answer to the Roseann show. This isn't it try again, Clearly CNN is grabbing at straws trying anything to gain some lost ground. lmao you suckers.
Ted SawickiYear ago
#kanyewest
Yawovi E.Year ago
She is wearing an african outfit and killed it. So cute...
Baldwin WallaceYear ago
I actually like Tracee Ellis Ross. She's not obnoxious and arrogant and a mouthy bitch like most black women (Michelle Obama, Maxine Waters, etc.).
Queen OgressYear ago
That's why African American prostitutes are so skinny. They don't make no money. LMBAO!!!
Baldwin WallaceYear ago
If looking like an AFRICAN WHORE is what she was going for .... Will someone tell her that the red lipstick makes her look like a prostitute. My apologies if that is the look that she was going for (or if she is a shameless, selfish, and irresponsible whore like most black women and white women who support Obama).
Queen OgressYear ago
LMBAO!!! Don't forget that Diana Ross married a white man.
Nunya BuznizzYear ago
That computer, a white man. That t.v., a white man. That electricity, a white man. That architecture, a white man. Our government, a white man. That iphone, a white man. That light bulb, a white man. Your couch, a white man. That car, a white man. The Industrial Revolution, a white man. RAP Music, a white man. The English Language, a white man. Every single thing you use, (except peanut butter) was developed by a white man. You get the picture. We are far beyond you.... Sorry, facts are facts. There is absolutely no reason to be jealous of this, at all. It is a joke, you are a joke. Educate yourself, you may not look so damn stupid. You literally would not be sitting here if it was not for the white man, you fucking moron. It would take you guys 1000 years to touch our accomplishments.
Camo DogYear ago
Stop brainwashing me!!!!!!!!!! I CANT TAKE IT ANY LONGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sarpong SarpongYear ago
I like the African print she is wearing
Issie wizzie10 months ago
its the in-thing now in the west
BeachdudecaYear ago
It is Fucked Up that they had the Man leave the house it promotes the Sick Stereotype that Black Fathers leave the Home and their Children!
dominique bourjac collierYear ago
Who cares
Jester AvrgjoeYear ago
Black Privilege is real, and cnn is it’s propaganda machine.
Berg FishYear ago
She is a very likeable person.
Jester AvrgjoeYear ago
Are black Americans really this insecure to need all this attention, and patting on their heads? 14% of the American population can’t be more special than the other 86% of Americans. Unless black privilege is real, and black Americans are exploiting their privilege to make themselves more important than the rest of Americans?
Marg H10 months ago
Onlookers sometimes don't get it. They have to be in it, experience it, feel it to understand it. You obviously are not black, so you do not understand nor feel the black experience and the denigration and disrespect that come with that historically and currently. Your observation/comment is shallow and remiss of the issues that do make the black experience in America unique.
witch, pleaseYear ago
The racism in this comments section only proves how insecure and desperate for attention whites like you are.
Cute Little SuzieYear ago
Jester - take Cb Cb's response as a good example of your initial statement. 14 lines of indecipherable jibber jabber. He or she doesn't take into account the "fact" that blacks are the black's worst enemy.
Cb CbYear ago
I'm uncertain what you are explaining because it sounds as if you have no idea what has happened in the world and what is happening in the world when it comes to anyone other than yourself, it's alarming to say the least, just name in a current event where someone has killed a black man or woman who is other than black and has been punished for the crime I'll wait, there does seem to be a tale of two cities we as Americanized people live in where if it doesn't personally affect you it doesn't really exist and that's a dangerous place to live, Americanized African people have a right to feel insecure when we can't save our children which are our future because no one is held accountable for the crimes committed against us and yet we're supposed to play nice and pretend that everything is ok just because some have better advances in this time, how insulting that in 2018 there are people still asking the question why are we angry when our history is still walked over as something we should get over already when that isn't asked for by any other ethnicity in the world
Cute Little SuzieYear ago
Yes. They are truly this insecure. 1% of their community in relation to the US population become famous. Athletes, musicians, singers - well sort of singers - make millions. One even made billions. However, the remaining community is a thorn in the US' side. Their "failure" is due to racism and not their lack of motivation - or so they say. Sad stuff.
Real blackmanYear ago
I like her dress
Real blackmanYear ago
Allow her talk
dshan1W WYear ago
Real blackman thank you!!. HE is becoming the most ANNOYING talk show host!..wish he stfu and let her speak. his own INSECURITY as a new talk show host is showing up.
Dave SchultzYear ago
Is she related to T.S. Ellis? I love that guy !
Garry GYear ago
These comments just confirm why I think white people are an abomination! Evil is in their DNA!
dshan1W WYear ago
100% agreed!...I looove to see them shaking in their shoes, and being exposed for the most Evil, Vile and HATEful community to ever exist.
witch, pleaseYear ago
CRIME PER CAPITA: White males are just 9% of the population of the Earth, but they have committed 85% of the worst atrocities against humanity and have been the most evil, wicked, oppressive, vile, violent, genocidal and murderous demographic per capita throughout the history of the world. White men have raped, robbed, murdered, and pillaged the entire Earth.
Garry GYear ago
Chew Bubble Gum and Kick Ass Nothing funnier than some filthy crakkka calling someone else a racist! You sound like a fucking fool! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Queen OgressYear ago
Garry G. Just admit your bias and racism. One half Irish black dude won because he talked a good game. Now you are back to reality. This ain't Wakanda dummy. You blacks simply do not carry your load - it's just the opposite. 87 % of the US has to carry your dumb ass. LMBAO!!!
Garry GYear ago
Jack Burton on the Porkchop Express Look at your President? A filthy piss freak who will probably die of Aids from fucking whores raw! A typical lice infected abomination!