I hope you are enjoying this weekend with family and friends.
I always try to bring something positive on Saturday.
A Dallas Mom Who Knew Nothing About Dance Started the Brown Girls Do Ballet Movement
Daria Harper | November 1, 2017 | 4:00am
A few years ago, photographer Takiyah Wallace was searching for a dance studio in Dallas for her 3-year-old daughter, who had expressed an interest in ballet, when she noticed something.
“One of the first things that jumped out to me in visiting local studios here was that there were not any faces that looked like her,” she says.
After selecting a studio far from home, Wallace began a personal photography project to find and document ballerinas of color. In 2014, that project blossomed into the nonprofit organization Brown Girls Do Ballet, which has taken the dance world by storm and received coverage in Huffington Post, on BET and in Allure magazine.
As a newcomer to the world of ballet and dance in general, Wallace was shocked by how many parents related to her struggle.
“It was a personal want and desire for me to look for dancers of color because of what I was seeing in looking for classes for my daughter,” Wallace says. “I didn’t realize that it was something other people were looking for as well.”
After posting a Facebook casting call for dancers in Dallas, Houston and Austin, Wallace received an overwhelming number of responses from people nationwide.
“I didn’t understand what the word viral meant,” she says. “But I learned very quickly that viral meant you don’t sleep.”
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Last month, Brown Girls Do Ballet released a mini-documentary, We Assemblé, which “hopes to inspire viewers while shedding light on triggering topics such as body image issues, discrimination and searching for confidence through dancing.”
Professional and emerging dancers of color appear in the film, including Layla Brent, Sierra Noelle Jones, Olivia Bell and Brooke Terry. The hope is that the film will reach a broader audience and help the organization meet its goal of funding a college scholarship for the first time.
Brown Girls Do Ballet also recently began a podcast, and the organization’s umbrella expanded to include Brown Girls Do Gymnastics. Wallace says she has plans to grow the mentorship program beyond ballet and gymnastics by the end of 2018.
CARSON…..
💋💋💋💋💋
Adorable 😍😍
Carson is precious!
It seems as if he is having one last dear look at his granny before drifting off to sleep.
LOL
He’s really growing. Looks like y’all were at the tire store. No wonder he’s falling asleep…
So HANDSOME. Carson is THRIVING, so precious.
Our little darling.
Arkansas Moves to Ban Monsanto’s Blockbuster Herbicide
Defying a lawsuit from the seed and pesticide giant, Arkansas put its foot down.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/11/arkansas-moves-to-ban-monsantos-blockbuster-herbicide/
Excerpt:
Happy Saturday, 3 Chics Family!
Happy Veterans Day!
This is an excerpt from Ken Burn’s Vietnam documentary. One of the veterans he interviewed and who is seen throughout the documentary, John Musgrave, describes what happened when he was shot during an ambush in Con Thien, South Vietnam in 1967.
David Von Drehle
Democrats, cut the cheer
Democrats are still acting as though demography is destiny when they need to woo whites.
Read more » https://s2.washingtonpost.com/10f8db/5a06df3afe1ff6361c7a093f/YXdhcmVvZjQxMUBnbWFpbC5jb20%3D/8/74/3a569220054ddfca9b49a25bb24a75b5
From The Economist
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/929197046250303488
Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄
Good Morning, Rikyrah.
What a great post you brought us today!
Your post inspired me to go looking for a Youtube video about Takiyah Wallace and her “Brown Girls Do Ballet” movement.
“How Brown Girls Do Ballet Creates Safe Space for Black Ballerinas”
https://youtu.be/iII0S2jCFuM&rel=0