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In a time of stress, Black people look to yoga for healing


In a time of stress, Black people look to yoga for healing
TATYANA TURNER, The Baltimore Sun / Report For America
April 25, 2021
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BALTIMORE (AP) As Kendra Blackett-Dibinga headed to her yoga studio in Mount Vernon on the first day of the trial for the Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd, she spotted a Black man wearing a hoodie, emblazoned with big white letters: “I Can’t Breathe.” Those three words reinforced her purpose as a yoga instructor.
They were among the last utterances of Floyd, a Black man who died after the white officer, Derek Chauvin, knelt on his neck for nine minutes. That case, along with a string of other police killings of Black people in 2020, sparked months of protests, and wound up becoming a call to yoga practitioners like Blackett-Dibinga. ....

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