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The Brief 90s Swing Craze That Turned Gen X Into Dance-Floor Traditionalists
For a short stretch in the late 1990s, American pop culture took a strange and stylish turn. Young people who had grown up on grunge, punk, ska, hip-hop, and alternative rock suddenly started learning the Lindy Hop. MTV played horn-heavy videos. Gap made khakis look like dancewear. Then, almost as quickly, the moment vanished. A…
Indigenous Man Travels Thousands of Miles to Granddaughter’s Graduation
In December 2015, Yolngu elder Gali Yalkarriwuy Gurruwiwi traveled 3,000 kilometers from his home on a remote island for a single, defining moment. The trip took him from Elcho Island in northeast Arnhem Land to a school hall in Healesville, Victoria, to watch his granddaughter, Sasha, graduate. When he arrived, the man who spoke primarily…