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Preparing for May… Frankie Month 2019
Spring is in the air and we are approaching the month of May… which means Frankie Month! Frankie Manning’s birthday is May 26th and...
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Mar 21, 20192 min read
Ambassador Weiming Zeng
The Frankie Manning Foundation is proud to be part of Google’s Black History and Culture. Here is the feature on Ambassador Weiming Zeng.
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Mar 19, 20191 min read
Ambassador Itay Skutelsky
The Frankie Manning Foundation is proud to be part of Google’s Black History and Culture. Here is the feature on Ambassador Itay Skutelsky.
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Mar 19, 20191 min read
Ambassador Joshua McLean
The Frankie Manning Foundation is proud to be part of Google’s Black History and Culture. Here is the feature on Ambassador Joshua McLean.
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Mar 19, 20191 min read
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Mar 19, 20190 min read
Ambassador Samuel Coleman
The Frankie Manning Foundation is proud to be part of Google’s Black History and Culture. Here is the feature on Ambassador Samuel Coleman.
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Mar 19, 20191 min read
Norma Miller – Italiano
Norma Miller è determinata a stare con noi tutti per festeggiare il suo 100° compleanno il 2 dicembre 2019, e per far sì che possa...
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Mar 5, 20191 min read
Norma Miller needs our help!
Norma’s wish is to stay at home while she recovers and to accommodate her wishes we are raising money for a full time aid to assist Norma...
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Mar 4, 20191 min read


Google’s Black History and Culture
The Frankie Manning Foundation is proud to be part of Google’s Black History and Culture, launched today. It is so wonderful to see Lindy...
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Feb 6, 20191 min read
The Original Ambassador, Frankie Manning
The Frankie Manning Foundation is proud to be part of Google’s Black History and Culture. Here is the feature on Frankie Manning.
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Jan 19, 20191 min read


Happy 99th Birthday Norma Miller!
The Frankie Manning Foundation wishes Frankie’s dear friend and colleague Norma Miller a happy 99th birthday. Thank you to the Queen of...
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Dec 2, 20181 min read


Swingin’ Réunion – an event recap by Ewa “W” Burak
Reunion Island Oct 12-14, 2018 I have always been fascinated by the helicopter perspective. What in the moments seems to be random events...
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Nov 16, 20184 min read


November is #YoungsterMonth
Last year we began an initiative in the month of November to highlight youth in lindy hop. This year we’re bringing #YoungsterMonth back...
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Nov 1, 20181 min read
THE FRANKIE MANNING MEDIA ARCHIVE – “A Night at the Savoy”
THE FRANKIE MANNING MEDIA ARCHIVE Norma Miller performing with Billy Ricker, Al Minns, and Frankie Manning at the Village Gate, “A Night...
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Oct 1, 20181 min read
THE FRANKIE MANNING MEDIA ARCHIVE – “The Big Apple Part 1”
THE FRANKIE MANNING MEDIA ARCHIVE Frankie Manning demonstrates steps from the Big Apple. Video Courtesy of Lance Benishek. 1. Stomp Off...
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Sep 12, 20181 min read


Guest Post: Vote for Hellzapoppin’ for the National Film Preservation Board
The internet has plenty of posts related to relevant lindy hop dance movies. But, what if there was a program to preserve the original...
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Sep 11, 20185 min read
Announcing the Frankie Manning Media Archive
The FRANKIE MANNING MEDIA ARCHIVE is digitizing significant footage of lindy hop’s greatest ambassador, Frankie Manning. Much of this...
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Sep 10, 20181 min read


Swinging Archives and Libraries
Guest Post by Karen Campos McCormack In March 2018 I was lucky to spend a month in New York, in Harlem, researching the history of Lindy...
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Aug 28, 20189 min read
Swingin’ at the Savoy
Not to be confused with the book by the same name by original Lindy Hopper Norma Miller. I guess the name was too good to resist!...
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Aug 26, 20181 min read
Swing Kids (1993)
1993 Directed by Thomas Carter The Lindy Hop scenes in Swing Kids were choreographed under Otis Sallid by Ryan Francois, a very talented...
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Aug 26, 20181 min read
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