The troupe of Ghanaian pallbearers went viral of their flamboyant coffin carrying dances, garnering millions of views.
The funeral dancing pallbearers are one of the unique tradition went viral, the pallbearers are at the centre of a global internet sensation.
Let's find out the history and origin of the Dancing Pallbearers also known as Dancing Coffin and the Coffin Dance.
The Ghanaian dancing pallbearers are led by Benjamin Aidoo, who started the group as a regular pallbearer service. Families are increasingly paying for their services to send their loved ones off in style. The dancing pallbearers first rose to prominence in 2017 when they were featured in a BBC News report.
Though the group initially gained worldwide attention though a BBC feature story in 2017, the footage became part of an Internet meme in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. BBC Africa's Sulley Lansah met up with the leader of the troupe to get his reaction to his new-found fame.
In April 2020, the group became the subject of a darkly comedic internet meme when videos of people suffering various mishaps, followed by clips of the pallbearers dancing with coffins implicitly the victims of the preceding clips, were widely uploaded to Reddit, YouTube and TikTok.
Many uses of this meme are commonly associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, which was ongoing when the meme became popular on social media.
Deaf Voters: The inconvenient truth about the Democratic Party.
A simple question for the Deaf Democratic community, did you know that the Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, founded the Ku Klux Klan, and fought against every major civil rights act in United States history?
Watch as Carol Swain, professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, shares the inconvenient history of the Democratic Party.
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Script: When you think about racial equality and civil rights, which political party comes to mind? The Republicans? Or, the Democrats?
Most people would probably say the Democrats. But this answer is incorrect.
Since its founding in 1829, the Democratic Party has fought against every major civil rights initiative, and has a long history of discrimination.
The Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, opposed Reconstruction, founded the Ku Klux Klan, imposed segregation, perpetrated lynchings, and fought against the civil rights acts of the 1950s and 1960s.
In contrast, the Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an anti-slavery party. Its mission was to stop the spread of slavery into the new western territories with the aim of abolishing it entirely. This effort, however, was dealt a major blow by the Supreme Court. In the 1857 case Dred Scott v. Sandford, the court ruled that slaves aren’t citizens; they’re property. The seven justices who voted in favor of slavery? All Democrats. The two justices who dissented? Both Republicans.
The slavery question was, of course, ultimately resolved by a bloody civil war. The commander-in-chief during that war was the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln – the man who freed the slaves.
Six days after the Confederate army surrendered, John Wilkes Booth, a Democrat, assassinated President Lincoln. Lincoln’s vice president, a Democrat named Andrew Johnson, assumed the presidency. But Johnson adamantly opposed Lincoln’s plan to integrate the newly freed slaves into the South’s economic and social order.
Johnson and the Democratic Party were unified in their opposition to the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery; the 14th Amendment, which gave blacks citizenship; and the 15th Amendment, which gave blacks the vote. All three passed only because of universal Republican support.
During the era of Reconstruction, federal troops stationed in the south helped secure rights for the newly freed slaves. Hundreds of black men were elected to southern state legislatures as Republicans, and 22 black Republicans served in the US Congress by 1900. The Democrats did not elect a black man to Congress until 1935.
But after Reconstruction ended, when the federal troops went home, Democrats roared back into power in the South. They quickly reestablished white supremacy across the region with measures like black codes – laws that restricted the ability of blacks to own property and run businesses. And they imposed poll taxes and literacy tests, used to subvert the black citizen’s right to vote.
And how was all of this enforced? By terror -- much of it instigated by the Ku Klux Klan, founded by a Democrat, Nathan Bedford Forrest.
As historian Eric Foner - himself a Democrat - notes:
“In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party.”
Deaf school children in Texas use sign language to paint a powerful portrait of what happened on September 11.
NEW YORK CITY -- Teaching 9/11: “To them, it’s history, just like Pearl Harbor,” said Chris Causey, a middle school educator in Robertson County, Tennessee. So, as the memories fade, teachers feel challenged to teach 9/11 in some way that is relevant to all ages in the United States.
Deaf school children in Texas use sign language to paint a powerful portrait of what happened on Sept. 11.
In some schools in New Jersey, third graders learn about the K9 rescue teams while 12th graders discuss methods of prisoner interrogation. In Tennessee, older students at Stratford High School conduct a mock rescue at the World Trade Center; others arrange their desks like the seats of an airplane while Williamson County social studies teacher Kenneth Roeten asks students about their everyday morning routines and compares them to headlines just before the attacks.
“I personally cannot think of any other event in American history that has had more of an impact on how everyday Americans live their life,” Roeten wrote in an email. “It has had a profound impact on my life; therefore, I believe it to be my duty as an educator to never stop teaching the shock, horror, sadness and utter disbelief of that day.”
But how? That's what school systems around the country are wrestling with now.
“I don’t think there’s a school system that has said ‘We’re going to focus on this,'” said Colleen Tambuscio, a teacher at New Milford High School in New Jersey who helped write a 9/11 curriculum through the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education in collaboration with the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in Manhattan. “I think what has happened in New Jersey - we’ve had moments of silence; we’ve had commemorative acts that were important. But now we should be getting into the educational piece, where we’re doing more with the education. That’s the trajectory.”
The lessons from the curriculum Tambuscio helped write include political and religious discussions; the history and present state of Islamic extremists; the global impact of the day economically; the ensuing wars; the backlash against Muslims; the change in day-to-day security and privacy implications; the huge personal tragedy; as well as stories of the first responders, extraordinary acts by ordinary citizens and the mission of service many felt afterward... Read The Full Story.
Ancient philistine cemetery in Israel could solve one of the Bible’s biggest mysteries in the history of mankind.
ASHKELON, Israel -- The Independent News: One of the Bible’s deepest and most important mysteries may be about to be solved.
Archaeologists appear to have found a cemetery belonging to the Philistines for the first time ever, along with the remains of 200 people who were buried there. And together they might help shed light on one the Bible’s most mysterious people.
The scientists have said that the members of the Biblical nation didn’t appear to be “philistines” finding the people buried alongside jewellery and perfumed oil. They will now conduct further tests that could shed yet more light on the maligned people. Those discoveries might be enough to make us rethink today’s use of the word philistine, which tends to refer to uncultured people who don’t know enough about the arts.
Until now, most of our understanding of the Philistines came from the things that they have left behind. But now for the first time we have found their remains.
"After decades of studying what Philistines left behind, we have finally come face to face with the people themselves," said Daniel M. Master, professor of archaeology at Wheaton College and one of the leaders of the excavation. "With this discovery we are close to unlocking the secrets of their origins."
The archaeologists kept the discovery a secret for three years until the end of their dig because of a unique hazard of archaeology in modern-day Israel: they did not want to attract ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters, Mr Master said.
"We had to bite our tongues for a long time," he said.
In the past, the ultra-Orthodox have staged demonstrations at excavations where human remains are found, arguing that the remains could be Jewish and that disturbing them would violate a religious prohibition.
Mr Stager's team dug down about 3 metres (10 feet) to uncover the cemetery, which they found to have been used centuries later as a Roman vineyard.
On hands and knees, workers brushed away layers of dusty earth to reveal the brittle white bones of entire Philistine skeletons reposed as they were three millennia ago.
Decorated juglets believed to have contained perfumed oil were found in graves. Some bodies were still wearing bracelets and earrings. Others had weapons.
The archeologists also discovered some cremations, which the team say were rare and expensive for the period, and some larger jugs contained the bones of infants.
"The cosmopolitan life here is so much more elegant and worldly and connected with other parts of the eastern Mediterranean," Stager said, adding that this was in contrast to the more modest village lifestyle of the Israelites who lived in the hills to the east.
Archaeologists and biblical scholars have long believed the Philistines came from the Aegean region, based on pottery found in excavations of Philistine sites.
But scholars have debated where exactly in the Aegean region the Philistines came from: Mainland Greece, the islands of Crete or Cyprus, or even Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey.
The bones might hold the answers, said archaeologist Yosef (Yossi) Garfinkel, an Israeli expert on the period who did not participate in the dig. He called the cemetery find "a very significant discovery indeed."
The excavation of the cemetery has also shed light on Philistine burial practices.
The Philistines buried their dead with perfume bottles, placed near the face. Near the legs were jars that likely held oil, wine or food. In some cases, archaeologists found the dead were buried wearing necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and even toe rings. Some were buried with their weapons.
"This is how Philistines treated their dead, and it's the code book to decoding everything," said archaeologist Adam Aja, a participant in the dig.
Finds from the cemetery went on display Sunday in an Israel Museum exhibition held at the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum in Jerusalem.
In fact, one of the first things customers learn at the two KFC outlets is how to order meals and drinks in sign language. Plastered on the walls of the restaurant are pictures of how to use sign language and finger spell, and it helps placing orders, watch how the Deaf KFC employees performance in the compilation.
Deaf Egypt KFC - SigningSensations from the TV show "An Idiot Abroad" Karl Pilkington in Egypt and visits a Kentucky Fried Chicken, the fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken. This KFC is run and staffed by Deaf people.
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Deaf India KFC - India KFC has focused on providing equal opportunity to hearing and speech impaired employees. India has over 70-80% hearing/speech impaired team members.
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Deaf Thai KFC - A special serve store employs Deaf staff in Bangkok, Thailand of KFC 'We Hear Every Dream' sign on counter at KFC store, workers in background.
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Deaf Malaysia KFC - Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant run by the hearing-impaired and speech-impaired employees.
If you wanted to apply for a job at this particular Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, you will have to be Deaf (or speech-impaired). Yes, hearing people cannot apply there Where is that anyway? None other than Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Source
Deaf Pakistan KFC - It is inspiring to see news of twenty hearing-impaired heroes gaining self-sufficiency through employment at KFC Pakistan’s recently inaugurated Deaf-operated outlet in Federal B Area, Karachi.
KFC and FESF (Family Educational Services Foundation) have collaborated to advocate for equal opportunities for the Deaf community in Pakistan. Effectively, over 100 young Deaf men and women have been employed at KFC’s seven Deaf-operated branches. Source
Deaf Singapore KFC - Deaf-operated the restaurant that serves Singapore's favourite finger lickin' good chicken meal, with strong support from its customers.
Fried Chicken (KFC) received the innovative employers award for modifying the workplace for PWDs, and employees at Holiday Inn Singapore Orchard City Centre. Source
The community responses has reacted to the Deaf KFC employes on Reddit.
Harland Sanders The Kentucky Fried Chicken History - KFC is a fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States.
KFC was founded by Harland Sanders, an entrepreneur who began selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky, during the Great Depression. Sanders identified the potential of the restaurant franchising concept, and the first "Kentucky Fried Chicken" franchise opened in Utah in 1952.
KFC popularized chicken in the fast food industry, diversifying the market by challenging the established dominance of the hamburger. By branding himself as "Colonel Sanders", Harland became a prominent figure of American cultural history, and his image remains widely used in KFC advertising. wikipedia.org/kfc
Deaf News: Cut down a popular 200-year-old oak tree at the Alabama childhood home of Helen Keller.
TUSCUMBIA, AL -- Section by section, the sprawling water oak plummeted Monday onto the grounds of Ivy Green at the hands of a whirring chainsaw.
Sue Pilkilton, executive director of Ivy Green, the birthplace of Helen Keller, watched the tree’s presence in the front yard dwindle.
“Isn’t that the saddest thing?” Pilkilton lamented. “We have tried for years to save that tree.”
Having stood for more than 200 years, the tree had particular significance in Keller’s young life. She enjoyed climbing it as a child, and once became stranded there in the midst of a storm until her teacher, Anne Sullivan, came to her rescue, Pilkilton said.
“Miss Sullivan had to climb up there and get her,” she said.
Members of the board that oversees the historic tourist attraction had no alternative but to order the tree removed. A look inside its trunk revealed why. It was hollowed from years of decay and insect infestation.
In July, part of the tree fell during a storm that packed an EF1 tornado...
WATCH: Mode Studios special features, 100 years of fashion from both the male and female side of style from 1915 to now.
100 years of Men fashion in three minutes. From seersucker suits and double-breasted blazers to Greased Lightning and hipster chic. This is one history lesson and hot bod! You don’t want to miss.
100 years of Women fashion in two minutes. It’s possible! Tune in as we revisit some of the biggest trends of all time. From jazz age sass, to Coco Chanel-inspired chic, to the psychadelic 70s. You don’t want to miss.
Taking inspiration from Cut's viral '100 Years Of Beauty' video series.
The latest installment in the Cut’s YouTube Channel, shows us the lively video, which is part of the viral ‘100 years of beauty’ series, explores how women’s beauty trends have evolved over the past century.
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Women's Swimsuits Through History - A diverse group of women show how swimsuits have changed from wool ones-pieces to bikinis.
Women's Makeup Throughout History - A diverse group of women show just how much women's makeup has changed through the ages.
Women in the 2000s have been bombarded with so many different requirements of attractiveness. Women should be skinny, but healthy; they should have large breasts and a large butt, but a flat stomach.
To achieve all this, women have increasingly been turning to plastic surgery. Studies have shown that butt augmentation procedures, patients under the age of 30, and patients citing selfies as a reason for plastic surgery have all increased in recent years.
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Deaf News: Michael W. Hubbs announced that he was hositpalized by stress symptoms. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- Michael (Mike) Hubbs of short...
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