African Americans and Yoga

Nico Marie McNeese took to YouTube to continue teaching yoga classes after COVID-19 restrictions prohibited group gatherings. She now has 100,000 subscribers around the world.

Today, Black artists are describing the trauma of police brutality, the agony of seeing friends suffer violent deaths and the pain of losing loved ones to COVID-19. Black artists in the St. Louis region will showcase works that connect grief and joy in a virtual exhibit from the Griot Museum of Black History on Saturday.

For decades, white women have been the face of yoga across the nation. But inside a yoga studio in Old North St. Louis, the atmosphere is worlds apart.At…