WMU student demands school apologize for white people singing 'negro spirituals'

WMU student demands school apologize for white people singing 'negro spirituals'

• At Western-Michigan University, a student is calling out a choir performance for singing African-American spirituals.
• She says that the event was “cultural appropriation.”

"An African-American student at Western Michigan University called out her school’s mostly white choir for what she calls cultural appropriation.
Shaylee Faught, a music major, attended a choir performance, called, “Spirituals: From Ship to Shore,” at Western Michigan University for class credit on February 19.
The performance was put together and produced by John Wesley Wright, an African-American professor of music at Salisbury University in Maryland.
On February 20, Faught posted a Snapchat video of her disapproving facial expressions during the event on Twitter, with the Snapchat caption reading, “Y’all don’t know how mad I am.”...
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