Strange Fruit 🍓
I danced to this song in high school while being in the advanced dance class at North Atlanta School of the Performing Arts, as well as when I was in middle school performing with the McClendon School of Dance Senior Company. It's my job as an artist to make art that reflects the truth of the times we are living in. I can't sit in silence while the blood of my people is being spilled at the hands of cruelty and vicious racism. There has been a fair share of lynchings happening to black people in recent years, so I posted the song " Strange Fruit" by Billie Holliday. She made this song as an act of resistance, liberation , and protest during the lynchings in 1939. With the murders of Nolan Wells, Keith Porter, and Kohen Wiley I wanted to take a moment of acknowledgement on my blog to bring into awareness the atrocities that have been taking place. I went to the Troy Davis Protest in September 2011, and my picture made the New York Times. Troy Davis was a Black man th...
