If you’ve been to a wedding, birthday party, school dance, or bar and bat mitzvah in the past 50 years, chances are you’re familiar with the dance, the Electric Slide. Known both as The Electric and ...
Line dancing has become a staple of the Black community‘s culture as it naturally provides a sense of comfort, unity and pride at any festivities. No matter where Black people are, when “Candy” by ...
The inventor of the "Electric Slide," an iconic dance created in 1976, is fighting back against what he believes are copyright violations and, more important, examples of bad dancing. Kyle Machulis, ...
The sweeper buses and police lights flashing in the distance mean one thing to the spectators of the New York City Marathon on the corner of Lafayette Avenue and Cumberland Street in the Fort Greene ...
Dance, for a long time, has been a key element of expression within Black culture. That aside, dancing brings people together in community to experience Black joy. One of the common types of ...
The dance moves may be written in the lyrics, but for Jennifer Parker, learning the “Electric Slide” was a long time coming. The 48-year-old from El Paso, Texas, suffered a brain aneurysm in 2018, ...
Moms and sons got a chance to shake their tail feathers Sunday afternoon, Feb. 16, at the first Mother-Son Dance hosted by the YWCA at The Legacy on 14th Street. YWCA Executive Director Glenda Mathis ...
At this year’s Houston Rodeo, the dance floor has been just as lively as the bull riding arena, thanks to an electric lineup of Black line dances keeping the crowd moving. From timeless classics like ...