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and everything it took to make it an official federal holiday. the person you hear talking, you may see her dancing later. i got the video. nischelle turner is here, cnn contributor and host of entertainment tonight. also sara joins us from the hollywood bowl as well. sara, i m going to get to nischelle. she was dancing the whole time on the show. i can t even watch. were you dancing in the crowd? how could you not move your body even if you didn t have rhythm? i don t think anyone in the crowd didn t have rhythm, but your body just moves. you couldn t not do it. it was powerful. it was powerful. the poem from jill scott hit me like a lightning bolt. it was incredible. there was a beautiful saying, you are somebody s ancestor, act accordingly from another poet. some of the things i m going to leave with, and i think the audience is going to leave with, we re going to stay with them, but the music, first of all, let me tell you who brought down the house, because as ....
some of this was nischelle, right? i think part of this is that this is actually both an extremely joyful time and there is this need to show the world black joy. there is a need to show that black folks love to have a good time, but they also know how serious this moment was in history for their ancestors, for african-american slaves who had no idea for two and a half years after the emancipation proclamation, after other slaves were set free, some of these slaves in texas didn t know, they were unaware. when that news came, can you imagine that moment? that moment of both exhilaration and fear, because the life that you knew you no longer had to leave. you were literally set free from bondage. so you saw that in some of the acts. debbie allen always brings it because she brings a different genre to the stage. a few great dancers as well. debbie allen. ....