I went to your website to see what is going on in my hometown. I come across the Chicken Noodle Soup Dance. I notice that this Chicken Noodle Soup Dance is from Harlem, NY. I pray that St. Louis does not go back to the Jim Crow years when white people were painted in black faces and imitated blacks on stage, making blacks look like fools. I hope that dance stays in Harlem.
Metisha Johnson-Tannan
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Editor’s note: A piece on this dance craze appeared only on stlamerican.com, which has daily web-only updates edited by Alvin A. Reid.