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Jawole Willa Jo Zollar demonstrates the power of dance

UBW BOLD: A Behind-The-Scenes-Look

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is the visionary founder and artistic director of "Urban Bush Woman." She has been using the power of dance and artistic expression to celebrate the voices of Black women and promote civic engagement and community organizing for over 35 years.

Urban Bush Women's mission is to create exceptional and provocative art, develop future leaders, and engage communities across the country and around the world in art-making as a way of effecting social change.


Their work is bold and inspiring.

The group's Bold Community Engagement & Workshops are at the forefront of activating the intersections of community art-making, civic engagement, leadership and group dynamics. This behind the scene look will give you an idea of the power of their work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GxkhDyE7s4

Dance has long been used to engage on a host of sociopolitical issues in the United States. Do you have other examples we can share with our readers? Please share with us your ideas by writing to us at pop-culture@fulcrum.us

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Word Kill: Politics Can Be Murder on Poetry

A poster featuring Renee Good sits along the street near a memorial to Good on January 16, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Word Kill: Politics Can Be Murder on Poetry

Across the United States and the world, millions are still processing the recent killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by ICE agents. Reactions have intensified as more recently ICE agents shot a Venezuelan man in the same city, and additional National Guard troops have been deployed there.

Many were shocked learning of Good’s shooting, and the shock grew as more information and details about the events leading up to her death, as well as facts about Good herself.

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Independent film captures Latino immigrant life in Wisconsin

Miguel (David Duran) in an ice fishing tent with a strange local, Carl (Ritchie Gordon)/ Nathan Deming

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Independent film captures Latino immigrant life in Wisconsin

Wisconsin filmmaker Nathan Deming said his independent film February is part of a long-term project to document life in Wisconsin through a series of standalone fictional stories, each tied to a month of the year.

Deming said the project is intentionally slow-moving and structured to explore different perspectives rather than follow a single narrative. He said each film functions on its own while contributing to a larger portrait of the state.

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Hollywood Gets Congress Wrong—and It’s Costing America Trust in Democracy

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Hollywood Gets Congress Wrong—and It’s Costing America Trust in Democracy

The following article is excerpted from "Citizen’s Handbook for Influencing Elected Officials."

Since the 1970s, public trust in American institutions—including Congress—has steadily declined. Approval ratings for the House and Senate usually hover in the teens. Certainly, some misdeeds by our elected leaders have contributed to this decline, and mainstream national media can claim its fair share of “credit” in portraying Congress in a negative light. Yet another major ingredient in the ugly formula poisoning public opinion of Congress is Hollywood. Movies and TV shows routinely portray Congress as craven, corrupt, selfish, and completely indifferent to the public interest. Regrettably, this is a wholly incorrect portrayal of our nation’s legislators.

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