Just a heads up, this episode contains some strong language.

Alright, on with the show.

I'm Karen Gricksby-Bates and this is Coatswitch from NPR.

On this episode, we bring you an encore from our colleagues over at Rough Translation.

It's a story about reconnecting with your culture, specifically African-American culture through dance.

But how do you do that when a dance that was born in Harlem moves overseas to Sweden

and becomes an institution there?

Is it cultural admiration or cultural appropriation?

Maybe something else?

Here's Gregory Warner.

This is Rough Translation from NPR.

I grew up in a multi-generational household, as we say.

I was my mom, my grandmother, and my great-grandmother, and myself all in the same house.

Growing up with Tasha Barron spent a lot of time with her great-grandmother.

My great-grandmother was a cook.

One of the few blocks of a few blocks, especially that ran her own kitchen in the city of Richmond.

She ran the family home, too.

Absolutely.

She was usually the one that was in charge of planning a lot of the family gatherings.

And Latasha has this one early memory.

I feel like it was an Easter Sunday.

Because I remember having on a poofy dress.

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