Hey guys! This episode features a conversation between me and my dear friend Fábio Mariano! He is a ballet dancer for Collage Dance Collective, an organization in Memphis that has brought ballet to people of color, vastly changing the culture around ballet. Mariano is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and has lived in Memphis for 6 years. Both he and I talk about ballet, dance & gender, racism in Brazil, parallels of Afro Brazilian culture and African American culture, and the recent Lula election. It was great to have him on the show! Obrigado!

This is the last interview episode of season 1! As always thank you all for your support!

Sources:

• https://collagedance.org/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilberto_Freyre
• Graham, Richard. The Idea of Race in Latin America: 1870-1940. Univ. of Texas Press, 2006. 
• https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/racial-discrimination-and-miscegenation-experience-brazil
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casta
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva-Wikipedia
• https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82-21520/
• European Immigration to Brazil

What's good! Hola a todos! This episode features Corey Wright, one of the OG salsa dancers in the Memphis Latin dance scene! He loves music and sees salsa dancing as an art form that allows energetic self-expression. We both enjoy dancing to salsa music and enjoy the discipline of it. We also agree that it's a great way to meet people!
Happy Black History Month!

In this episode we talk about:

• How Corey Wright got into salsa dancing
• Experience as a Black salsa dancer
• Salsa Dancing as Art
• "Africanness" of Salsa Music
• African Americans recognizing the jazz influence in salsa music
• Gaining confidence from learning and failing
• The Culture of Inclusivity in the Rumba Room

Intro music by Melvin Lindsay: melvin.lindsay.jr@gmail.com

Hey everyone! Happy New Year and Happy Martin Luther King Day!

This is an important day to reflect on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  We also must be aware of the whitewashing of his legacy and that he is extremely misunderstood. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a brilliant Black intellectual, writer, and orator. He was anti-war, anti-imperialist, and saw connections between the Vietnam War, racial issues, and the exploitation of those in poverty. Many politicians optically agree with Dr. King but don't understand how ahead of his time he was. Dr.King was a radical in the 1960s and he would be considered radical now. He was more than "I Have A Dream". Let's learn more about Dr. King. Vamos!

Main topics of interest:

• MLK: More Than I Have A Dream
• Whitewashing of MLK's Legacy
• "Thingification of the Negro"
• Connecting Civil Rights Movement to BLM and CRT
• Black Leftism
• COINTEL-PRO
• Atlanta's Cop City Development
• Racism of Steven Crowder
• Three Evils of U.S. Society

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_leftism
• https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/
• https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/12/us/mlk-relevance-today/index.html
• https://history.uga.edu/news/stories/2018/essay-why-martin-luther-king-had-75-percent-disapproval-rating-year-his-death
• https://www.nwesd.org/ed-talks/equity/the-three-evils-of-society-address-martin-luther-king-jr/
• https://jeremyfassler.medium.com/you-havent-done-nothin-bernie-sanders-s-disingenuous-transformation-into-a-civil-rights-22846a4b699
• https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/fannie-lou-hamer
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
• https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/814
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/20459215
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_letter
• https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/12/7204453/martin-luther-king-fbi-letter
• Crowder Goes MASK OFF, Attacks MLK On His Holiday
• MLK Talks 'New Phase' Of Civil Rights Struggle, 11 Months Before His Assassination | NBC News
• Why I haven't talked about Kyrie and Kanye
• Angela Davis & BLM Co-Founder Alicia Garza in Conve