Ancestral Crown Day - Ta Malonga Casquelourd
👑 ANCESTRAL CROWN DAY REMEMBRANCE: TA MALONGA CASQUELOURD November 5, 1947 - June 15, 2003 #givepraisetolife nzoCALIFA -- At Berkeley High School, we had a phenomenal African American Studies Department and African Dance Program then lead by Dunham luminary and San Francisco City College Dance Teacher Paula McCullum [iba'e] . She taught us Dunham, Afro Haitian, Jazz Dance, Ballet, Samba, and Congolese Dance, all masterfully. Then, it was Bay heyday to easily take a class by any native of these aforementioned traditions as many had migrated to the region erecting a Pan African Dance Diaspora portal like no other in the country. There were many to trailblaze the field yet to my lineage were the likes of Ruth Beckford & Professor Nontsizi Cayou *give praise to life* to Dance Pioneer Dr. Halifu Osumare , yet the Dance wind beneath my wings was indeed Paula. She was like a Dance guardian to continue my life chore...