Do This: "Master Class for the Masses" by UBW

 

NYC! Are you looking for a day filled with dance for an affordable price?
Urban Bush Women and Angela's Pulse are bringing a master class day of dance spirit to the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance!

Exercise your mind and body with this 3-in-1 workshop series. Come to just one, two, or all three-- all for $10! See details below and on the event page. This is certainly Doing Moor approved, must-go event.

"Dancing While Black, an initiative of Angela's Pulse, has teamed up with Urban Bush Women's Being Bushified series and Bronx Acadmy of Arts and Dance to bring you an exciting weekend of events at BADD! (2474 Westchester Ave., Bronx).
On May 31st, take a 3-for-1 master class series led by master teachers Jawole Willa Jo Zolla, Nia Love, and Adenike Sharpley. This is sure to be a weekend you won't forget!
You can take as many classes as you want for $10! (Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds)
Secure your spot by paying and registering here.

The teachers:
Nia Love, MODERN ROOTS (2pm)
Adenike Sharpley, PRAISE TRADITIONS (4pm)
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, HOW WE GOT TO THE FUNK (6pm)

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"Dasani makes me pee!"

A few years ago, my cousin refused a bottle of Dasani water because she claimed it made her pee. Naturally, water makes one urinate, so I chalked up her reasoning to her being paranoid. Despite my doubt, she insisted that it was this particular brand, and not tap or other bottled waters, that made her "go".
Well, she might not be as dramatic as I once thought.

Take a look at the Dasani label:

This "purified" water contains added minerals for "taste". The trickery!
Not only is salt added for consumer-preferred taste, Dasani is nothing more than tap water with some minerals sprinkled throughout. Gasp!
If you are alright with that, go ahead and keep paying premium prices for water that comes from your own faucet.


So maybe the salt content is not high enough to make my cousin pee more than any other water source, and she is probably being slightly dramatic. Perhaps, her body stages a mini protest when she pays for water that she already has access to in-house. Who knows.
What I do know is that Coca-Cola Company just gave me yet another reason to read the fine print and be aware of label ingredients-- even for water.
Stay woke, America!

Stay Strapped: NYPD vows to back off from criminalizing condoms in sex work cases

Imagine you are stopped by the police, searched without basis, and arrested for an illegal act with legal items in your possession cited as evidence of your crime. 

Unfortunately and unsurprisingly, this does not sound unfamiliar or unique to any one particular encounter with the police. However, this is what some 200 prostitutes reported when describing their interactions with the NYPD in interviews with Human Rights Watch.

Following Brooklyn's lead, the Manhattan district attorney announced this week that they will be cutting back on their seizure of condoms as evidence in the arrest of prostitutes.

Ice Cream Trucks Are Racist

As if you needed another reminder to eat healthier this summer, here is a reason to never eat from the ice cream truck again.

NPR's Code Switch shatters every comforting memory you have ever had about hearing that old familiar ice cream truck diddy, scrambling to find a dollar, and running barefoot into the street for your favorite gumball-eyed treat.


That ice cream truck tune is called "Nigger Love A Watermelon Ha! Ha! Ha!" (1916):
         

Browne: "You niggers quit throwin' them bones and come down and get your ice cream!"
Black men (incredulously): "Ice Cream?!?"
Browne: "Yes, ice cream! Colored man's ice cream: WATERMELON!!"

Recognize the music? Yeah. Me too.
Summer will never be the same.
Lucky for me and many New Yorkers, we are team Mr. Softee. Our tune is much more loving and innocent, and we get real cones... with sprinkles!

                      

The creamiest dreamiest soft ice cream you get from Mister Softee.

For a refreshing delight supreme, look for Mister Softee

My milkshakes and my sundaes and my cones are such a treat.

Listen for my store on wheels ding-a-ling down the street.

The creamiest dreamiest soft ice cream you get from Mister Softee.

For a refreshing delight supreme, look for Mister Softee

S-O-F-T double E. Mister Softee!

LONG LIVE MR SOFTEE!!!

Do Moor: Crutches 4 Kids

NYC, do you have some crutches laying around your house?
If so, you can make a difference in a child's life by doing some spring cleaning and donating to Crutches 4 Kids!

Today marks the beginning of the New York City Crutch drive (May 12-18).
Do moor today. Click here for details.

The Kiss Seen 'Round the World

Whether or not you followed the NFL draft this week, watch football, or even enjoy sports at all, odds are you have heard of Michael Sam.
In case you forgot, think back to early February when a Black, University of Missouri football player announced on ESPN that he was gay; becoming one of the first openly gay college players.

Well, now he is the first openly gay player to be drafted into the NFL.

Anyone can understand the statistical feat of joining the select few who can say they are members of the NFL. Consider, then, the prospects of a gay man, brave enough to allow others into his truth, awaiting the call that would change his life.

The emotion of it all could not have been more apparent: