That’s why organizations like Dance Theatre of Harlem have always made sure black ballet dancers see themselves on stage. The Huffington Post is exclusively premiering the dance company’s most recent short film titled “High Above,” directed by Daniel Schloss and written by Charlie Sohne, which shows the power representation can have in a young person’s life.
DTH collaborated with India.Arie for the film’s title track, which doubles as the release for the Grammy-award winning artist’s latest single.
In the film, the death of a young black girl’s grandmother inspires her to dance. She sneaks off to a performance, looks up at a gorgeous black dancer on stage, and afterwards the dancer gives the girl her dance shoes. When the girl returns home, she learns about her mother and grandmother’s special bond through ballet.
The film is a promotion for DTH’s annual spring engagement at New York City Center from April 19-22.
Watch “High Above” above.
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Eight years ago, RuPaul Charles brought nine relatively unknown drag queens from across America into one workroom for a reality-based competition series best described as a hybrid of “America’s Next Top Model” and “Project Runway.”
No one expected it to become one of the most successful LGBTQ television shows of all time.
On March 24, the ninth season of the Emmy-winning “RuPaul’s Drag Race” franchise debuts ― but this time on a new network, in a new time slot with a new audience. For the first time ever, viewers will watch “Drag Race” on VH1 during primetime on Friday nights instead of Mondays on Logo, the largest exclusively gay network on TV. An encore of the show will still play on Logo every Monday.
When Logo announced the decision, the reaction was both polarizing and revealing of how intimately intertwined “Drag Race” has become with LGBTQ culture. The move not only affects the network and the show’s audience, but also local queer communities that have championed and sustained “Drag Race” from its humble beginnings.
“Drag Race” leaving Logo is monumentally significant for the network, whose relevancy has largely been predicated on the show’s success. But the hub of gay TV is much more than “Drag Race,” with programming encompassing documentaries, feature films, web series and other reality-based content. And now Logo and LGBTQ people everywhere must decide what the future of queer storytelling looks like as “Drag Race” finds itself on a more mainstream network.
The shift from Logo to VH1 speaks to a conversation in the LGBTQ community about visibility in a post-marriage equality world and the importance of safeguarding the queerness of spaces and culture. While there’s apprehension that something will be lost in this transition, both Logo and Ru are encouraged by the opportunity to expand the reach of the show.
While younger generations of viewers might be taken aback by the shifting tides, VH1, Logo and RuPaul share a history and all operate within the same corporate parent company: Viacom. In fact, the Supermodel of The World once hosted his own talk show on VH1 from 1996 to 1998, which helped solidify him as a household name.
“We’ve had a great time at Logo. Logo has been so good for us and allowed us to be ourselves, so in my heart Logo will always be a part of ‘Drag Race,’” RuPaul told The Huffington Post, adding, “I think the move to VH1 really reflects the broadening of our audience.”
Pamela Post, Senior Vice President of Programming and Original Development at Logo, echoes these thoughts from RuPaul and assures viewers that the nature of “Drag Race” won’t be compromised.
“I think as a fan you’ll watch it and you’ll see the context of the show has not changed, the jokes haven’t changed, the point of view has not changed,” Post told The Huffington Post. “I think all of that is very much intact. And that’s what we love about it – it’s point of view and humor and take on the world. And especially RuPaul’s point of view. So I think at the end of the day it’s just about exposing it to a larger group of people and hoping its fan base increases.”
The prospect of “Drag Race” on primetime Friday night TV is certainly exciting for the franchise, but it also presents challenges for queer spaces, like bars and nightclubs, who have built business models around the program.
For Steven McEnrue, the manager of two popular gay bars in Brooklyn, New York, the making over of “Drag Race” into a primetime VH1 show on Friday nights presents a set of challenges to his business. When “Drag Race” aired on Mondays, bars like McEnrue’s organized screenings on a night where foot traffic was typically low and nightlife industry workers, including local drag queens, were usually off. On Friday nights, bars tend to be busy with regular programming already slated.
“[Mondays] felt like a community experience with everybody watching this show and having a really good time,” McEnrue said. “I think it’s a little early to tell but I do think a bit of the magic of coming together on a Monday night might be lost. It’s definitely going to be a completely different dynamic this year in terms of the crowd and how the show is.”
This concern isn’t exclusive to local queer business owners, as former “Drag Race” contestants are already contending with the tension between the show’s ballooning popularity and the desire to preserve what feels precious to the LGBTQ community.
“It’s one of those confusing things that we see online and in our gay bars around the world that as the gay community becomes more mainstream, the need for exclusively gay spaces, be they television networks or brick and mortar gay bars, becomes seemingly less necessary,” season six finalist Courtney Act told HuffPost. “Obviously that’s a great thing because we’re becoming more accepted and more visible, but also at the same time it’s really sad because there is something so important about preserving and celebrating queer spaces and culture.”
Still, Act sees the power in having “Drag Race” become more accessible to a mainstream demographic in a television landscape largely devoid of multidimensional LGBTQ representation. “Drag Race” has always embodied a commitment to celebrating individuality and difference in a world that tells queer kids to conform.
In the words of RuPaul himself…
“Drag challenges the status quo,” RuPaul told HuffPost. “It’s always challenged the matrix – the matrix being ‘choose an identity and stick with it the rest of your life because that’s how we want to sell products to you, so we’ll know who you are and can put you in a box and then sell you beer and shampoo. Well, drag says ‘I’m a shapeshifter, I do whatever the hell I want at any given time.’ And that is very, very political.”
This message has never been more relevant at a time when minorities in America are under attack and the need for diverse representation ― and a commitment to looking out for one another ― is critically important.
Pamela Post also considers the migration of “Drag Race” to VH1 as an example of the allyship that this political moment demands.
“This is a time for allies,” she told HuffPost. “I think that whether you are somebody who is worried about your immigration status, or you’re a person of color who is finding that your life may be treated slightly differently than others, I believe that us as an LGBTQ community … should bond together and try to find some strength at a time that’s very difficult. I don’t tend to get political mixing it with television conversation, but I think inherently Logo has always been part cause and part entertainment.”
Despite the popularized notion that Logo puts its full resources behind reality-based programming like “Drag Race,” “Finding Prince Charming” and the upcoming “Fire Island,” this concept of allyship and commitment to diverse storytelling through a variety of platforms is very much at the heart of the network.
Just last year, Logo launched the Global Ally campaign, which strives to connect people along the spectrum of queer and trans identity around the world through storytelling. “Out of Iraq,” an Emmy-nominated documentary about two men who fall in love in Iraq only to be forced apart, was borne from this campaign alongside short-form videos highlighting queer experiences in places like Uganda and Jamaica.
Logo also centralizes their efforts to uplift stories of the LGBTQ community’s most vulnerable. The web series “Beautiful As I Want To Be,” which aired in 2015, partnered four young trans people with prominent trans leaders in an effort to help them fully express what it means to them to be beautiful and authentic. The network’s upcoming documentary “Strike a Pose” will follow the seven backup dancers from Madonna’s iconic Blonde Ambition tour and examine how their lives have been forever changed. Not to mention, Logo was also home to a seminal series about the lives of black gay men, “Noah’s Arc,” which premiered in 2005, a time when diverse queer stories were rarely told.
So why, despite all of this programming, does the LGBTQ community in 2017 tend to primarily associate Logo with whiteness, abs, debauchery and drag when all of these other stories are within reach?
”We as the queer community have fought so long and struggled to be seen as equal and to be respected in community,” said Courtney Act. “But now when we choose to show ourselves in a light that is bordering on the worst of humanity rather than celebrating our high points, it’s like, ‘Are we there already? Are we ready to show the world that we’re just as trashy and unhinged as the Housewives are?’”
While reality-based programming on Logo is not without merit ― whom among us wasn’t curious about a gay version of “The Bachelor”? ― these types of shows are not necessarily representative of the network’s big picture.
Are we there already? Are we ready to show the world that we’re just as trashy and unhinged as the Housewives are?
“I think all of us should be supporting stories that are enlightening, entertaining and showing the diversity of our community now more than ever,” Rich Ferraro, a former Logo employee and current chief communications officer at GLAAD, told HuffPost. “All too often so many of the diverse queer stories that Logo and other LGBTQ media outlets put out there fly under the radar because it’s not something that white, cis gay men often share over social [media]. But now more than ever we should be standing together … to find the creative ways to showcase those stories that will also hopefully drive positive change.”
Perhaps the cultural fascination and success of these shows over other programming says as much about us as a community as it does Logo as a network.
As Logo moves on to redefine itself outside of a “Drag Race” framework, now is an important time for queer people to ask themselves: what do we actually want to watch on TV? Whose stories do we want elevated? How do we want them to be told? What do we want the world to know about us?
“I don’t ever envision a post-’Drag Race’ world,” Post added. “’Drag Race’ is always going to be a huge part of the Logo line-up and people will still view it on Logo and we will still air it on Logo. At the end of the day I think we are always going to find new boundaries and areas we want to push into… I think that we are always going to find new, interesting and diverse stories and different ways to tell them.”
The desires of LGBTQ people to see themselves on screen have evolved. We are multidimensional people, living complex lives and navigating a multitude of different identities. It’s time that we as a community commit to sharing, engaging with and prioritizing the elevation of diverse, compelling stories that are representative of more than just a white, cis gay ideal. This has to begin not only within Logo but also the community at large through conversations we have with each other ― and what we choose to watch on a Friday night.
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” airs Friday nights at 8:00 PM ET/PT on VH1 with an encore on Logo every Monday.
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The Denison Police Department posted a statement to Facebook on Wednesday describing the case in detail and said 18-year-old Breana Talbott, who is white, confessed to the hoax and has been charged with making a false report.
Denison police say 18 yo Breana Talbott lied about being abducted by 3 black men & raped. She's charged w making false report @FOX4 at 5:30 pic.twitter.com/Zu06YMD1IZ
Talbott was reported missing on March 8 by her then-fiancé Sam Hollingsworth, who told police he found her car in the parking lot of her apartment complex with the driver door open and her phone, keys and a single shoe nearby. Hours later, Talbott stumbled into a local church half-naked and covered in cuts.
“She told witnesses at the church she had been kidnapped and sexually assaulted in the woods behind the church,” the police department said. “There were also visible cuts and/or scratches on her body.”
Detectives and police scoured the area for the suspects, who Talbott claimed were “3 black males” wearing ski masks. The events of that evening were all staged and her injuries were self-inflicted, according to the police statement.
Police said they had suspicions about the case “almost from the beginning,” as they were unable to corroborate any of Talbott’s accusations. Medical personnel also reportedly found no evidence that Talbott had been sexually assaulted.
Studies have found that as little as 2 percent of reported rapes are false. The department noted the harmful effect Talbott’s claims had on the entire community.
“This alleged crime as reported by Breana Harmon Talbott made many in the community fearful there were individuals abducting women,” the department wrote on Facebook. “Even though we know the story to be a hoax, there is still potential damage to the reputation of the City of Denison and the Texoma region as many may remember the reported crime but not the outcome.”
“Breana Harmon Talbott’s hoax was also insulting to our community and especially offensive to the African-American community due to her description of the so-called suspects in her hoax,” the post continued. “The anger and hurts caused from such a hoax are difficult and all so unnecessary.”
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A cloud of fear has settled over many Americans since Donald Trump was elected president.
Since Nov. 8, people have been shot, synagogues have been threatened, and even children aren’t spared from bigotry. But how much are these acts of hate on the rise?
It’s hard to say. That’s because there’s no comprehensive government database that tracks violence, harassment, vandalism, intimidation or bullying motivated by hate.
To better understand what is happening around the country, The Huffington Post has partnered with ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to investigative journalism, and other news outlets to create a database of reported acts of hate and bias incidents. By gathering this information, we will create a clearer picture of what is happening in America.
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The store now has “more nude color options than ever before,” according to a press release. Michelle Wlazlo, senior vice president of apparel and accessories at Target, explained new range falls in line with the store’s “continued commitment to inclusivity.”
“We know that women come in all shapes, sizes and ethnicities, and our assortment needs to reflect their outfitting needs,” she said.
With bras ranging from $10 to $17 and underwear around $5, the news is sure to please Target shoppers in price point, as well.
The brand announced “plans to roll out additional shades of nude this fall for intimates, hosiery and shoes,” which is music to our Louboutin-taste-on-a-Target-budget ears.
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Beware the relationship blind spots: seemingly harmless issues that can derail a marriage if you’re not careful. Pastor John Gray of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, has spent time counseling many married couples, and, as a married man himself, he points to one common example of a blind spot that can ruin everything: thinking that you can maintain prenuptial friendships without any changes after marriage ― especially friendships with members of the opposite sex.
As Pastor John explains, this is a relationship blind spot he knows personally. “I have somebody that’s like a sister to me. We talked all the time, we never dated… We’ve known each other 28 years,” he says. “But, unless she was friends with my wife, we couldn’t be friends anymore.”
Yes, Pastor John knows how that may sound.
“Some people are like, ‘That’s crazy. Your wife needs to get over it,’” he says. “No. Because one of the blind spots is that pre-existing relationships somehow trump your marriage. They don’t.”
If your spouse takes precedent over your parents, Pastor John reasons, why wouldn’t the same be true for a friend? “When you get married, you forsake everything else to build that,” he says.
The key, he continues, is not to make any assumptions about how your partner may feel.
“Some spouses are okay with platonic friendships of the opposite sex, and others are not,” Pastor John says. “Deal with that blind spot, because that can became a very real point of contention later on.”
The pastor is starring in a new series on OWN, called “The Book of John Gray.” It premieres April 15, but you can watch the first episode in full right now on WatchOWN.tv.
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Atlantic City, New Jersey, honored the good Samaritan who brought peace to two fighting teens in a video that has received more than 31 million views.
Ibn Ali Miller, 26, teared up as he made remarks during an event on Wednesday night in which he and the two teens, 15-year-old Jamar Mobley and 18-year-old Sheldon Ward, were recognized. Ali used the moment to thank his mom for raising him to be the man that he is now.
“When I was young I grew up in the projects,” Miller said, holding the resolution the City Council presented to him. “When I would get on punishment she would make me read books … I’m crying because this whole situation deeply saddens me. The fact that it’s unbelievable. This should be very believable. This should be a norm and it should be regular.”
Miller called the teens up and praised them for showing unity, something he said the adults in their community have a problem doing. He also thanked the boys’ parents for raising them “to be young men of reason.”
In a Wednesday interview with Time, the married father of six said that he stepped in “because it was the right thing to do.” He noticed the crowd of teens while running errands in his car. Miller, who intervened without a second thought, credited his Muslim upbringing for giving him the wisdom to see stepping in was what he “was supposed to do, what [he] was raised to do.”
“Those kids didn’t look like predators to me. To me, I saw my own kids. I didn’t see predators,” he said.
Jamar thanked Miller on Wednesday, according to CBS Philly. He told the outlet that he feared the outcome could have been ugly had Miller not intervened. The straight-A student told NBC 10 that Miller made him think about a lot of things.
“The one thing he said that got through to me was that, he explained that all my friends, who I thought were my friends, all of them just wanted to see a fight,” Jamar said.
Since the video of Miller encouraging the teens to do better was posted on Monday, he has received praise from many, including Cleveland Cavalier LeBron James and rapper Snoop Dogg.
Miller told Fox 29 that he hopes people who see his actions will learn how to deal with young people on a more personal level: “They don’t need basketball. They don’t need dances. They don’t need programs to teach them how to do a back flip. They need character building.”
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According to the Southern Poverty Law Center ― an organization that tracks hate crimes and promotes tolerance ― there are currently 101 anti-Muslim groups in America, out of 917 total hate groups. According to The New York Times, anti-Muslim hate crimes were already rising in 2015, which saw a 67 percent increase from the previous year. But add to this President Donald Trump’s proposal, initially banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S., and religious discrimination seems to be mounting.
While Trump’s travel ban applies the same restrictions to all members of Muslim-majority nations, projecting a message many have viewed as intolerant, Muslim book publishers are aiming to do just the opposite. A recent report on Publisher’s Weekly highlights several Muslim presses working to shed light on the nuances of Islam, and of its practicers.
Reporters Marcia Z. Nelson and Emma Koonse spoke with publishers that issue updated versions of the Quran, books about Islam for non Muslim-readers, academic titles encouraging readers to think critically about religion, children’s books with Muslim protagonists, and YA books bolstering Muslim voices.
Of the diversity of perspectives on offer by these publishers, Publisher’s Weekly writes:
Despite the nuances found in the Muslim publishing industry, one common goal between publishers is clear: to provide resources that accurately represent beliefs and experiences of distinct and numerous communities of Muslims in the U.S. and around the globe.
The work of promoting a complex vision of Muslim identity isn’t to be shouldered alone by Muslim presses. Another publishing house, Comma Press, vowed to only publish books by authors from the countries affected by the travel ban until it’s fully overturned. “Personally, I’d much rather hear voices from Somalia, Yemen or Iran than have to listen to yet another news report about the new show business that is U.S. politics,” publisher Ra Page told The Huffington Post.
While a response system is valuable, Muslim presses could offer something that treats the gnarled root of hate: visions of religious identity that are too complex to be stereotyped, and too full of humanity to be ignored.
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Texas high school student Ebony Banks was diagnosed with with a rare form of stage 4 cancer that’s kept her out of the classroom and in the hospital for much of her senior year. To lift her spirits, friends and family launched a social media campaign to fulfill Banks’ biggest wish: meeting her idol, Beyoncé.
Well, Queen Bey heard the call and made the teen cancer patient’s dream come true on Wednesday, when she surprised Banks with a one-on-one FaceTime session.
“I love you,” the soon-to-be mother of three tells Banks in a video of their conversation posted to Twitter.
“I love you, Beyoncé,” the teen responds.
Beyoncé facetiming with Ebony, a fan with a rare cancer disease whose last wish was to see Beyoncé. ❤️️ pic.twitter.com/pCkGzF4feZ
“She’s like my everything and my idol,” Banks told a local Houston TV station, KHOU. “And if I ever met her, I would probably pass out.”
Banks, whose nickname is Ebob, was the inspiration for the hashtag #EBOBMEETSBEYONCE on social media, which garnered thousands of retweets and likes, putting the story on Beyoncé’s radar. The campaign soon captured the attention of local news stations that broadcasted Banks’ story to a wider audience.
“We just decided she should, you know, meet Beyoncé,” high school senior Shanya McKnight told KHOU. “We started this hashtag to see how far we could get.”
“Beyoncé is one of her idols. She admires her so much, so we’re trying to put that on Twitter and Instagram to get Beyoncé’s attention,” classmate Karina Gutierrez added.
Earlier this month, students and teachers held an early graduation for Banks at The University of Texas’ MD Anderson Cancer Center, where she’s been receiving treatment over the past year. Banks dreams of becoming a pediatric nurse to help others in similar situations, according to the local outlet, and has already been accepted to college.
Another student, senior Cristal Depaz, told the local station how she and her classmates strive to support Banks.
“We try to make sure she has a smile on her face and to make her wishes come true,” she said.
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That’s why we need more people who exhibit “intellectual humility.”
The personality trait, which is classified as an awareness that one’s beliefs may not be right (imagine!), is only just beginning to be studied by researchers. It falls among categorized traits like hostility and egotism, according to those who study the phenomenon. And a new analysis published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin last week aims to take a deeper dive into the character type and how people with it function.
Mark Leary, lead researcher of the character type, says the trait is important to study because it affects many aspects of how people interact with each other.
“The degree to which people believe that their beliefs, attitudes and viewpoints are correct have implications for the quality of people’s decisions, their views of other people … conflict in social interactions and the ability to compromise,” Leary told The Huffington Post. And those with intellectual humility recognize that impact, he explained.
Below are some signs you posses the personality trait, according to Leary and the findings from his study:
1. You’re open to other people’s viewpoints.
People with “IH,” as Leary calls it, can recognize that there are two sides to every argument. And they don’t just keep this idea to themselves, they validate the other person’s argument if they feel they’re making a strong case.
“People with high IH acknowledge when others make good points,” Leary said.
2. You recognize when you’re wrong.
“Those who are low in IH rarely acknowledge that they’re mistaken about some fact,” Leary said.
Those with high levels of the trait will be forthright about when they’re incorrect and speak up about it. In other words, no “alternative facts” here.
3. You challenge your own beliefs against facts.
You may have an opinion on a subject, but if you find facts that refute it, you’re likely the first to admit it. You’re also more likely to adjust your worldview accordingly.
“High IH leads people to reconsider their beliefs and attitudes, which should lead them to adjust or change viewpoints that don’t stand up under close scrutiny,” Leary said.
4. You’re a leader at work.
Good leaders are those who are able to recognize when they made a mistake ― something that takes a good amount of intellectual humility.
“If you’re sitting around a table at a meeting and the boss is very low in intellectual humility, he or she isn’t going to listen to other people’s suggestions,” Leary said in a statement following the study’s release. “Yet we know that good leadership requires broadness of perspective and taking as many perspectives into account as possible.”
5. You’re able to compromise.
People who have low IH may not be able to reach a middle ground, Leary says.
“People who are entrenched in any belief and cannot fathom the possibility that they might be wrong have problems considering the merits of other positions and looking for areas of compromise,” he explained to HuffPost.
Those with intellectual humility can meet in the middle and come to a compromise that works for both parties. This obviously sounds ideal when you apply it to, say, congress, Leary says, but it’s also good for interpersonal interactions, too. Research shows conflict resolution and compromise may help with long-term bonds.
6. You have relationships with people of all different beliefs.
Because your mind is so flexible, you’re able to connect with a wide range of people with different world views. A quality, Leary says, is important to overall cohesiveness in society.
“High IH people get along better with other people and have more satisfying relationships ― probably because they manage disagreements better, and other people don’t like know-it-alls,” he said.
7. Your ego is in check.
Leary says that people with more intellectual humility are less likely to engage in “ego-involved disagreements.” Translation? They check their sense of self-importance at the door and recognize that everyone’s perspective is as valuable as theirs.
8. You’re open minded.
Do you approach situations ― from debates on current events to new adventures ― with a high degree of open-mindedness? That’s the trait in a nutshell, Leary said.
Of course, experts suggest that human beings cannot possibly be classified by a single personality type and some of the most popular tests to determine them are hardly scientific. There’s also more research that needs to be conducted on the subject in order to gain a fuller understanding, Leary points out. But it’s still interesting to explore the established characteristics of intellectual humility as a way to gain insight into how you may approach the world.
And, if we’re being honest, it doesn’t sound like a bad trait to have ― especially in this political atmosphere.
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