![IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Junior Zalie Mann performs “I Love to Cry at Weddings,” an ensemble piece from the fall musical Sweet Charity, to prospective students during the Fine Arts Showcase on Wednesday, Nov. 8. The showcase is a compilation of performances and demonstrations from each fine arts strand offered at McCallum. This show is put on so that prospective students can see if they are interested in joining an academy or major.
Sweet Charity originally ran the weekends of Sept. 28 and Oct. 8, but made a comeback for the Fine Arts Showcase.
“[Being at the front in the spotlight] is my favorite part of the whole dance, so I was super happy to be on stage performing and smiling at the audience,” Mann said.
Mann performed in both the musical theatre performance and dance excerpt “Ethereal,” a contemporary piece choreographed by the new dance director Terrance Carson, in the showcase. With also being a dance ambassador, Mann got to talk about what MAC dance is, her experience and answer any questions the aspiring arts majors and their parents may have.
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![SPREADING THE JOY: Sophomore Chim Becker poses with sophomores Cozbi Sims and Lou Davidson while manning a table at the Hispanic Heritage treat day during lunch of Sept 28. Becker is a part of the students of color alliance, who put together the activity to raise money for their club.
“It [the stand] was really fun because McCallum has a lot of latino kids,” Becker said. “And I think it was nice that I could share the stuff that I usually just have at home with people who have never tried it before.”
Becker recognizes the importance of celebrating Hispanic heritage at Mac.
“I think its important to celebrate,” Becker said. “Because our culture is awesome and super cool, and everybody should be able to learn about other cultures of the world.”
Caption by JoJo Barnard.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/53221601352_4127a81c41_o-1200x675.jpg)
Between 2021 and 2022, in the aftermath of massive worldwide protests over the killing of George Floyd and conversations about police brutality, a total of 563 measures were introduced across every state except Delaware to limit the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT), according to a report from the CRT Forward Project of the Critical Race Studies (CRS) Program at UCLA School of Law.
CRT became a hot-button issue as conservatives, especially Republican politicians like Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, created a narrative that CRT was being taught in public schools and that it was causing white children to feel guilty and students to hate each other.
In the midst of February, and therefore Black History Month, listen as host Elaine Jiang discusses the attacks made on CRT in recent years and the importance of promoting Black history and other marginalized narratives with guest Susan Anderson, the history curator and program manager at the California African American Museum.
The sound effect in this episode was made by graham_makes and published on FreeSound under a CC by 4.0 license. The music in this episode is courtesy of Rachel Alcazar.
For more information on the Domini Hoskins Black History Museum and Learning Center mentioned in this episode, visit their website here.
This story was originally published on Scot Scoop News on February 12, 2024.
