Current Events > The World's Coolest Day Party Is Also a Safe Space for People of Color

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gypaz7/the-worlds-coolest-day-party-is-also-a-safe-space-for-people-of-color

Attending an Everyday People party is like entering an alternate universe where being your best and blackest self won't get you targeted by the cops or destroy your professional prospects. Instead, it sets you up to enjoy everything that's good in life—booming music, delicious food, cold drinks, and beautiful young people.

The monthly day party is not your average bottomless brunch. You spend your afternoon whining, twerking, and swag surfing to everything from dancehall to Southern rap, sincerely complimenting strangers on their Afrocentric ensembles, and subconsciously escaping the challenges that come with being a person of color in America. It's also nothing like stuffy nightclubs. There is no strict dress code that bars sneakers or do-rags or jerseys. Instead, Everyday People exposes brothers and sisters from all socio-economic backgrounds, genders, and subcultures to one another. The event is so hot that celebrities like Jidenna, Erykah Badu, and SWV have all dropped by to join in the revelry.
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Saada Ahmed: No one's just standing around taking Instagram photos. That's one thing that a lot of people have told me is that they feel like it's a very fun, safe environment.

*half the article is photos of people at the event*

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