The Nonviolent Sit-Ins That Desegregated Nashville’s Lunch Counters
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April 18, 2021, 5:03 AM·16 min read
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On April 19, we will commemorate as well we should the twenty-sixth anniversary of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. But April 19 is also the anniversary of another consequential, albeit lesser known, bombing: On that date in 1960, a bomb went off at the home of Alexander Looby, the Black lawyer representing students and other activists arrested in sit-ins aimed at integrating downtown Nashville. Looby and his family survived, but the bomb blew out 147 windows at a nearby medical college.
The Bridge Street Theatre presents “#QueertheBallet.”
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“#QueertheBallet” Jumps Off | February 25
Choreographer Adrianna Pierce’s “#QueertheBallet” will premiere on YouTube by way of Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre on February 25 at 7pm. Part of the theater’s 2021 dance residency program, the work in progress features the American Ballet Theatre’s Remy Young and Sierra Armstrong and seeks to create a non-traditional pas de deux on pointe that will serve as a loving testament to the unique and varied ways in which two women communicate and connect. The performance is free.
Smith knows some people are apprehensive about getting inoculated and he respects everyone s personal choices, but he hopes his example will encourage others, especially those in the Black community, to get the vaccine as well. Smith, 65, is a caretaker for his mother and said he was able to sign up to be immunized when her vaccine appointment was scheduled. I did want others to know that I m comfortable taking it, Smith said in an interview with The Tennessean. I do hope and encourage people to take it so that we can get this pandemic under control and begin to find a new norm for life and for living.