Category — Fight! Profiles

The Ifetayo Cultural Arts Facility began in 1989 as a six-week series of free modern dance classes for 50 students living in the Flatbush community of Brooklyn. Sister Kwayera Archer-Cunningham founded Ifetayo out of her love for children and a desire to enrich their lives with the arts and knowledge of their African cultural heritage. At the end of the six-week period, auditions were held and ten scholarship students were selected to become the founding members of the Ifetayo Youth Ensemble. [Read more →]

Lakota Harden (Minnecoujou/Yankton Lakota & HoChunk,) is an orator, activist, community organizer, workshop facilitator, radio host and poet. She has dedicated her life, as a daughter of seven generations of Lakota leaders, to liberation and justice. Harden first became an accomplished speaker as a youth and representative of the early American Indian Movement’s “We Will Remember” Survival School on the Pine Ridge reservation, established out of the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation. She has continued her activism over the years, working with the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC), Women of All Red Nations (WARN) and the Black Hills Alliance. [Read more →]