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Black Dancers Are ‘Reclaiming’ Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Monument

DANCE Posted: August 7, 2020 7:33 am

Here’s one instance from last month: “Standing at the base of the three-story pedestal supporting the Confederate general’s likeness, [Janine] Bell, the artistic director of Elegba Folklore Society, welcomed a small sea of drummers, dancers and bystanders banging on plastic buckets to an event she called the Reclamation Drum Circle. ‘We are not playing today,’ she said, and invited all present to move and sway to the music. And so began an extended jam session at a park long considered a whites-only space.” – The New York Times

DANCE Published: 08.06.20

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