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...woman’s costume in ballroom must catch the judge’s eye to bring attention to the couple, so attire is typically shiny and vibrantly colored??and, particularly in Latin dances, revealing. Dancers also need to be extremely tan, both to draw attention and look appealing under bright lights. “You need to put forward confidence; there’s a certain beauty in it,” Shelton explains. Every ballroom style has its own character that requires performers to act to the music, so costumes help dancers fit the parts...
...racial policy. That policy of absolute racial separation had been decreed by the Supreme Court in the Plessy v. Ferguson case of 1896. However, that minimal legal acknowledgement of the humanity of African-Americans was never enforced. Their lives were separate but never equal, from the “colored?? hospital wards where they were born to the racially-segregated graveyards where they were buried. As a confused six year-old in rural Arkansas, I once asked my Sunday school teacher if God had a “colored?? section in heaven...
...long way from the “colored?? and “white” schools outlawed by Brown, but their legacy persists and African-Americans cannot wait for others to solve the problems of educating black children. They have the political potential to solve some of the problems themselves by heeding the self-help adage: “The solution is not always out the window, it is sometimes in the mirror...
Well, not exactly. Gay characters actually have appeared on American television since the 1970s, generally playing bit parts. (Would you believe that one of the first gay characters appeared aside Archie “It’s-Not-Their-Fault-They’re-Colored?? Bunker in “All in the Family?”) Since then, they’ve occupied progressively larger and more nuanced roles (think Willow in “Buffy,” Jack in “Dawson’s Creek” and Ricky...
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