Nowadays, the people that come to dance to blues music overall all hate/fear one thing: solo dancing. We’ve heard every reason: “I’m here for the connection”, “I’m scared”, “I don’t care about that”, even “I could never do that”. We want to point out the historical significance of solo dancing, why it’s important in your dancing […]
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Trying to be better about being good to minorities but have a bunch of questions no one is answering because “you should know” or look it up yourself. Here is a list of commonly asked race relation questions to raise your cultural competency.
Down to Earth Cultural Competency Read More »
Hi Reader! I have been busy during my public break, working on the site and future class offerings and content for February. (if you want to vote on that content join my Patreon!) This is one of the times I’d love to know what is and isn’t working for readers. So, consider filling out this
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Recently at a workshop, I slowed class down and had us stop and think as we listen to the well-known song, Strange Fruit. The class was about listening to lyrics and the importance of understanding the story. As the song stopped, I found myself struggling to find words to describe the emotion that I was
Lynching: The Hidden Legacy We Avoid Discussing Read More »
As white people learn that racism is real, there is a waking up to the fact they may also are involved in the system that creates it. When talking about inequality I hear the term White privilege thrown about and it gets a lot of mixed reactions. Some people hate it, more don’t get it,
What Is White Privilege: An Unconventional Perspective Read More »
All throughout my adult life I’ve heard about “White Guilt”. It’s a phrase like tiny blades slung at others, sometimes used as a tired, half-hearted attempt at self-defense while in other situations, the phrase is sharpened to kill. As much as I understand why “White Guilt” is a phrase, I find myself unable to use
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The Legacy of Lynching: Part 2
…lately Black Americans have been in the news regularly dying from police brutality and “suicide”. The astute among us have realized that these reek of fowl play, and the naive and innocent of us don’t want to believe what we know to be true.
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Recently at a workshop I slowed class down and had us stop and think as we listen to the well-known song, Strange Fruit.The class was about listening to lyrics and the importance of understanding story. As the song stopped, I found myself struggling to find words to describe the emotion that I was overwhelmed with. I looked out until crowd of faces, that mostly didn’t look like mine, and I saw a vast range of emotions that I didn’t quite understand.
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A guest post by: Joey Science Bronzeville stretched from State St to Cottage Grove, between 43rd and 47th St in the 1920s. It was historically known as Chicago’s “Black Metropolis”, and like Harlem during this time, Bronzeville was a center of Black thought and art. Being a drag performer in Bronzeville was a respectable job,
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