But again, Kelly, tell everybody a little bit about your background.

Just give us the overview of the Kelly Morgans The Kelly Morgan story.

You know, I moved here in 2003.

I'm originally from New York, born in Brooklyn, Brooklyn.

But then when it was do I Bed-Stuy, by the way.

But that's another story.

We'll save that for another show.

Not not today.

All right.

And so I moved here to host an inspirational morning show that aired all around the world.

Right.

That was a fantastic opportunity and did that for about 7 or 8 years.

Was that the harvest?

That was the harvest show?

Yes.

And I got a chance to go to Israel in Hawaii.

Tough job, you know.

Yeah.

So that was really, like I said, a great opportunity, a lot of fun.

And then I moved on there to work at USP, where I teach right now.

I teach African dance and Afro jazz and, and then also have done several, several episodes here.

I think a couple of episodes on the very first episode wasn't the first.

I think so, or at least in the first week you were on here.

Was that my dance when you came to my dance?

Yes.

So I teach a dance class and it's African dance.

And so we have live drummers and everything.

And Gaudi came.

This man can get down.

Okay.

I don't know if you've ever done a show with you dancing, but you were.

No, you were pretty amazing.

We burned those tapes.

Kelly, tell me about Uzima.

What's the origin of the name and how did you develop this dance and workout?

Right.

Well, I was asked to do an African dance workshop back, on Martin Luther King celebration, and it was so much fun.

The women after the class were whooping and hollering, and I and I kind of felt a real sense of community happening in that room.

And so I said, listen, guys, you know, you're interested in it.

And they said, if you teach somewhere, we'd love to come.

And so I kind of thought about it, and I wondered if something like this might work here in South Bend, if there would be interest in it.

And I thought, you know what?

I'm going to try it, because the feeling in that room was so awesome that I wanted to kind of have that more often.

So I thinking, what am I going to call this class?

And I was researching the work and I wanted to figure out what does dance mean in the African language.

And I came across the word Uzima, and I can't believe how one simple word could really change somebody's life.

But that's really what it did for me, because Uzima is Swahili and it means a celebration of wholeness, health and life.

And I knew right then and there that that's what I wanted.

And more than that, that's what I needed in my life, and that's what I wanted for the women that came to the class.

There are some things in this world I believe everybody loves, and in my opinion, chocolate is one of them.

Yes.

And Yvonne.

Right.

And you know what?

I love chocolate so much.

I am willing to look like this on camera.

Okay.

That's how much I love chocolate.

Oh my gosh, they are so cute.

Oh my goodness.

So this is River Jordan Camel Dairy Farm.

And as you can see these are camels.

Now are these baby cameras.

They are these are our youngsters stamps now guys.

The best time I just wanted to say I know we said it last week, but I'm having the best time with you this year.

I know I love.

We didn't get the question.

We had to do it through zoom.

I don't have to talk about it.

But you know what?

I see a little something.

Oh my God, we'll be at the farmers market.

You were talking about that.

There's a Keighley.

Yeah.

Nice.

Okay.

There you go.

All right.

Oh, I'm going to do some sweets for somebody really sweet.

Okay.

Now you can buy me something.

Let's go.

Okay.

Let's.

Okay.

Now, tonight, we're here at Saint Michael's Church because the dancers and the singers are all in there rehearsing for this concert.

So let's head on in and see how things are going.

Well, gentlemen, thank you so much for taking a break from rehearsal.

It's exciting to be here.

There's a great energy in this atmosphere.

Now, Marvin, I want to start with you, okay?

Okay.

Because so the community Foundation reached out to you to, to kind of be the lead in this project.

And I thought, man, you are the most working is retired person I know.

But what made you decide that you have to say yes to this opportunity to do that music, which I love because it's part of who I am, but also the chance to educate folks about African-American music is all about.

So when Laura approached me, I thought, okay, this could be a chance and a couple things.

And then there was you.

I liked you, Kelly.

Oh, you big thing.

Oh my goodness.

They don't see the dance, right?

Like, we like like we don't like triple stomp kick, triple step, triple bind, triple.

Fine.

But the turn, triple walk walk, triple step turn.

Triple.

Three.

Two one.

Go go go.

Oh.

Quite became a glow.

But she's waving at all colors all over our lesson.

Michiana.

You will never see this again in the winter.

But I have to show off my Bibi shirt because I am now a grandmother and they thank you, Kelsy, Dave and Courtney.

They bought this shirt, but Bibi is actually grandmother in Swahili.

Nice.

Which is kind of a shame that I know it's awesome.

But anyway, he's adorable.

Oh my gosh Kelsy, can we put some pictures here?

Can I show them?

All right, so you got some pictures, but there's no there's no way.

Good thing this happened here.

Yeah.

Oh that was I'm going to be shopping for myself and for my new grandson.

Hey.

All right, Ruby.

So we're just going to lift and lift and lift and lift and do that shimmy, shimmy and a little circle.

Have o circle, all right?

And bring it up.

And then we're going to do a little undulation and then just take a step hip and follow me.

Oh okay.