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Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

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Award-winning journalist Vicki Gonzalez hosts interviews with community leaders, advocates, experts, artists and more to provide background and understanding on breaking news, big events, politics and culture in the Sacramento region and beyond.

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UC Davis Professor Shares Memoir On 'Dancing in Blackness'

Thursday, March 1, 2018 | Sacramento, CA
Dr. Halifu Osumare / Courtesy
 

Dr. Halifu Osumare / Courtesy

A UC Davis professor who has been involved with dance and black popular culture for more than 40 years has released a new memoir. "Dancing in Blackness" is the story of Professor Halifu Osumare, a dancer, choreographer, teacher, administrator and scholar. Osumare returns to Insight to talk with Beth Ruyak about her latest book and her life's work.

Upcoming Performances

  • Saturday, March 3, 2-4 p.m. – Underground Books, Sacramento
  • Tuesday, March 6, noon-1 p.m. – Laney College Library, Oakland
  • Thursday, March 8, 4-5:30 p.m. – UC Davis AA Studies, 3201 Hart Hall, Davis
  • Saturday, March 10, 6:30-7:30 PM – Laney College Theatre, Oakland
  • Saturday, March 17, 2-4 p.m. – African American Museum & Library of Oakland
  • Tuesday, April 10, 11 a.m.-noon – San Francisco State University, Room EP 116 
  • Saturday, April 14, 2-3:30 p.m. – Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco

FistUp.Tv -Halifu Osumare's New Book "The HipLife in Ghana" from Friends of MVMT Films on Vimeo.

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