Dominican Americans embrace their African roots

Here’s a package Annie Shreffler and I worked on for our International Reporting class about how Dominican-Americans learn about their African heritage through music and dance.

We talked to a dance troop in Washington Heights, a singer who recently moved to Brooklyn from the Dominican Republic, a palos drummer from the Bronx, and a professor and club from Lehman College in the Bronx.

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