“I honestly believe that my television show, Bring It!, created a worldwide frenzy about African-American majorettes,” she says. “We all knew about the SWAC, which is the Southwestern ...

Majorette dance teams echo the importance ... There are around 100 HBCUs in the U.S., and HBCUs account for almost 20% of all African American graduates, according to the United Negro College ...

The importance of HBCU culture is to give African Americans an opportunity to receive the education that they need and tuition is also more reasonable at HBCU. Being on that Majorette dance team ...

and it’s a mixture of high-step marching band with West African jazz aesthetics and hip-hop, alongside with modern.” Most majorette squads perform at HBCU football games, entertaining the ...

Starting in the 1960s, majorette dance teams became popular at HBCUs for their high energy movements that infuse jazz, West African and hip-hop dance styles. The majorette dance teams often ...

UC Davis’ majorette team was formed with the help of Dionica Bell, former director of the Center for African Diaspora Student Success, or CAADS. She was the team’s first advisor and quickly helped ...

but in the African American community being a homecoming queen at an HBCU is everything," Jones explained. Other dolls include a majorette and a cheerleader. "Majorettes -- their style of dance ...

It's the first-ever majorette team in the school's history. One year ago, Adinuba brought 12 women together through the love of dance. "It has a mixture of jazz, African styles, lyrical ...

Majorette dancing is a tradition at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Lang says it has its roots in Western African dance and also incorporates jazz and hip hop.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- For the first time, the University of Southern California has a majorette team thanks to one dancer with a vision. "I was looking at all the dance teams and cheer teams they ...