'Dance, Dance, Dance' part of Black History Month celebration

Latanya Johnson, third from left, and Jermaine Nakia Lee, center, lead audience members in a demonstration of the Ring Shout, a worship dance, during a Black History Month celebration on Wednesday, Feb. 15, on South Piedmont Community College’s Old Charlotte Highway Campus in Monroe. Johnson and Lee, who led the program “Dance, Dance, Dance,” were from the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts and Culture in Charlotte. Other events included “Music of the Movement,” also put on by the Gantt Center; a presentation by Union County Public Library genealogist Patricia Poland on Dr. John Massey, Union County’s first black physician; and a panel discussion on career readiness. The event was sponsored by IMPACT, SPCC’s minority male mentoring program.