Teen Vogue spoke with the Cardinal Divas on going viral, being first all-Black USC majorette dance team and ignoring the backlash.
Half of the team had majorette experience at the pre-collegiate level and the other half had other dance experience and were eager to learn. They didn’t mess around. With packed schedules, the Divas managed to practice from 10 p.m. to midnight, just as the school year began in late August. Then they made their debut on September 10 at the USC Village, a shopping center for students and the greater South Central LA community, for a wellness event hosted by USC student group.
This debate is complicated and there is no universal right or wrong answer to the fundamental question: Where are Black students allowed to practice Black tradition? DeFrantz also proposed the idea that dancers performing majorette at PWIs may not be doing the exact same thing as those performing majorette dance within and for the HBCU community.
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