Julia Brim-Edwards Declares Candidacy for Multnomah County Chair

Julia Brim-Edwards Secures All Six Mayoral Endorsements in Race for County Chair

Julia Edwards is credited with popularising Limbo in the 1950s. She became known as the Limbo Queen, having helped the art-form become one of T&T's national dances. The Limbo dance was originally performed at wakes, with the bar at its lowest at the start and steadily raised to symbolise the deceased person's rise to heaven. Edwards turned the dance into a choreographed performance by reversing the process, with the bar being steadily lowered to show the dancer's suppleness. Born in 1933, Edward