ALN Remembers: Black Tea Houses

[@pammypoo3003]

I'm a tea drinker and absolutely love the idea of a tea house. ❤

[@evonza4858]

Tea is tasty and healthy too🥰❤️🖤💚✊🏾❤️🖤💚

[@veronicajade20]

I'm not a fan of tea, but I am a big fan of Black women relaxing, engaging in self-care, & being fabulous, so I'm all for these tea houses. ♥️♥️♥️

[@evonza4858]

We Black people have class🥰👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🥰❤️🖤💚✊🏾❤️🖤💚

[@PamelaSpencer-ys3qp]

Yesss we do

[@noble604]

Please remember that. It wasn’t Błack people out in the community in trashy, provocative attire. That was never safe for us and we HAD to be “respectable.” Our very lives literally depended on it. We conducted ourselves with some measure of class no matter what level we were on. Our homes were clean, no matter how sparse and poor. Our children knew right from wrong. Subpar behavior was never our norm. Please remember this.

[@melg9825]

@@noble604 True

[@DarleneBattle-n8w]

Amen! Come on!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@noble604]

As a child, my mom taught me about teas.... with her metal cans of loose teas, tea ball infusers, bone China teacups, my own children’s tea set, her teapots, and beautiful aromas coming from cups of tea. Tea wasn’t just some single bag set in a cup that everybody had. Tea was a choice of flavors. I’ve known many teas since I was a child. I am so thankful for my mother. 🕊

[@epifanijones3084]

Same. My mom introduced tea to so many people that they gifted her teas from wherever they traveled...so much so that she has been gone almost a decade and I am still working through her stash...❤

[@MarthaMiller-gx1yk]

There was a Georgettes Tea Room in Miami during Segregation. Billie Holiday visited and was photographed there. Thanks for sharing this valuable information 👍.

[@michellemarie9855]

I remember drinking black tea w cream with my grandmother and great-grandmother.

[@cb-pd8ot]

My grandmother and I used to drink tea, wow the history of tea is deep

[@evonza4858]

Tea is tasty and healthy too🥰❤️🖤💚✊🏾❤️🖤💚

[@noble604]

My grandmother and I did, too. My grandmother would cut my slice of toast into quarters with loads of butter and jelly on it. (Somehow cutting a slice of toast into 4s made it so special.) I loved her so much.🕊

[@trapppland3333]

I drink a lot of tea and it makes me feel connected to my ancestors. People made it seem like it is only a European tradition and im happy to find this historical context to my love for tea.

[@kimmy8218]

Europeans adopted tea drinking from the Chinese and indians. It would be nice if the owners would educate their customers about the history of tea because again the history is not European

[@blackcoffee2002]

​@kimmy8218 true but the Chinese and Indians didn't colonize Africa/Akebulan or North America, the Europeans did. I believe that's possibly why it was not mentioned. And also it's only so much u can say on a 7 minute video😂

[@moshe2495]

Thank you for uploading this educational video.

[@janicescott-pair97]

Thank you for this valuable history lesson. 😊

[@rashaunjones1027]

Let's get back to having black tea house shall we ?

[@dlfleming80]

Information that I didn’t know that I needed. Thanks for sharing such a necessary part of our history. ❤

[@TanyaOwens]

I love tea. Thanks for letting me know about this fascinating part of our history

[@deedee49]

I too being from St.Croix, I drink alot of tea bush from home.

[@tararobinson6023]

Thanks for this part of histiory❤

[@PamelaSpencer-ys3qp]

I love drinking tea and my son and daughter also drank tea since they were toddlers

[@Poshgardenherbs]

I grow and sell herbs. Thank you so much for sharing! I love tea ☕️ -PoshGardenHerbs 🌱

[@swedmerson90]

It has always been a dream of mines. I wanted have my own line or herbal tea as well as China porcelain tea sets. I remember my grandmother harvesting wild herbs and brewing them in this beautiful bot and making Tea Cakes with her and drinking hot tea. To this day I drink 1 if not more cups of hot tea.

[@reneedennis2011]

Thank you for this video. I didn't know about this.

[@annabellademus9719]

MY FATHER WAS A TEA DRINKER , I ALWAYS DRINK TEA I WAS THE ONLY PERSON AT WORK THAT DID, IT IS VERY HEALTHY FOR YOU. NOW MY SON DRINK'S TEA.

[@swedmerson90]

My 10yo son LOVES tea and always requests a cup in the evening. If we go out to eat for Dim Sum or another Asian cuisine I always order a pot of hot tea and he will sit there and drink all my damn tea. Sometimes, when I'm stressed, he will bring me a cup of hot tea with honey on the side so I can add it accordingly to my liking. That's my tea buddy.

[@DarleneBattle-n8w]

​​@swedmerson90 Good to have one. 🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊😊

[@QueenAnnesLace13]

Thank you for this, we need our history!

[@Yorubapraises]

I love tea and coffee, but the older I get, the more I prefer more tea, even wanting to open my own tea room and lounge and hold tea parties just like theirs.

[@LindaDLoweLLivingthelife]

Great video! Would you happen to know of any Black owned tea businesses in Baltimore or the Washington DC area?

[@lyndajay4407]

Wow, I never knew this. Thanks for the info!

[@cherilynnfisher5658]

Thank you so very much for this awesome video! I thought everybody forgot about this! "It's not just a cup of tea. . ." "Icy tea", not what you think it is! Next up, discover "Porching".

[@blackcoffee2002]

@cherilynnfisher5658 what is porching?

[@melaniem5971]

So interesting…My cousin remembers my grandmother hosting “High Tea” parties in the 1950’s - Grandma was from Savannah. GA - would love to learn more- where this “ritual” came from. Not a lot of info available.

[@mm-px4io]

My Mom started us on teas. Still growing strong in our whole family.

[@kiabeelb33]

This was so informative. My grandmother was a tea drinker. I can remember her drinking it with some of friends after church.

[@Itsmiimiibaby]

This is so profound and beautiful. I bought a box of Brooklyn Tea just recently. It was amazing. ❤

[@linda_lawson]

Love tea.

[@feliciasmith3481]

Me too😊

[@deborahzellner4848]

I grow my own herbs for teas and would love to have some type of tea business.

[@DoeJames-vt1pb]

this is great information ,thanks !!!

[@Gods_LovelyChild]

This has been going on for along time.

[@stephaniehigginsgarrett5998]

I love tea❤️

[@them0ther]

Coffee addict here; however, I may go back to drinking tea. Thank you for sharing this history.

[@EmprezzWakanda1962]

This is a great way for black people to get together to plan and organize what we need to do in this crazy trump era.

[@mhopi9744]

Love tea forever. Started as a baby in Africa n its common for babies to drink tea

[@DoeJames-vt1pb]

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[@queenyork4117]

I drink a lot of tea

[@pammypoo3003]

Me too! Lol

[@kathleenharris8824]

I love tea. Great video I am going to check them out online.

[@DoeJames-vt1pb]

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[@ashlynn1362]

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[@inDTM]

I want to learn more. Any book ref?

[@DoeJames-vt1pb]

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[@talkinnmedia4535]

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[@DoeJames-vt1pb]

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[@DoeJames-vt1pb]

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[@DoeJames-vt1pb]

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[@abrahamisaacmuciusiii9192]

Saint Croix was colonized by the Danish not the English.

[@solartist1]

It was also colonized by the English, and others at various times.

[@TessieDobey]

I tried to love tea but coffee won!

[@evonza4858]

I tried them both and l STILL drink tea no coffee but hot chocolate is My favorite favorite 🥰👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🥰❤️🖤💚✊🏾❤️🖤💚

[@katyarnold-ji8sv]

I am tea drinker. I would l love to go to a tea house.

[@ebonyb.7690]

That’s all I drink compared to coffee.

[@DoeJames-vt1pb]

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[@DoeJames-vt1pb]

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[@deemari577]

Oops! I was only interested in the black American decendants of American slaves tea house experience history...

[@Mimi-ht6xr]

Honey, l’m Creole and Cajun from Louisiana ⚜️⚜️⚜️ and ALL we ever drank was BLACK COFFEE!!! All this tea drinking is white English-oriented. It’s too bland. No flavor to it but hey, to each her own ❤

[@msal3515]

Well I am definitely not Caribbean and we are definitely tea drinkers in my family. My grandparents served tea to my mom and my mom introduced me and my brother to tea. My son drinks tea and all my nieces ❤

[@ashleybcookin]

Beautiful and Inspiring documentary.❤

[@DoeJames-vt1pb]

always tunein to WVON 1690 AM it's the oldest 🔴⚫🟢 owned radio station in chicago , they are on 24 / 7 days a week !!!

[@cathylockhart5925]

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