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Katherine Dunham sitting in dressing room, February 1, 1948 – Museum of History and Industry – University of Washington Digital Collections

Katherine Dunham sitting in dressing room, February 1, 1948 – Museum of History and Industry – University of Washington Digital Collections — Read on digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/imlsmohai/id/10334/

Katherine Dunham in Tropical Revue | Cecilia Schultz

Seattle, Washington: Cecilia Schultz, 1943. 12mo 8.5” x 5.5” . 8 pp., including printed self-wrappers. Illus. A scarce playbill for a 1943 peformance of Dunham’s Tropical Revue in Seattle.African-American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist and activist Katherine Dunham 1909–2006 enjoyed one of the most successful dance careers of the twentieth century. Tropical — Read on http://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/6020/cecilia-schultz/katherine-dunham-in-tropical-revue

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Anna Deavere Smith by Thulani Davis | BOMB Magazine

A couple of months later, my friend Mary called me up and said it’s on again. I tape recorded it; I transcribed it, and this is when I became really interested in watching not what people say, but how they say it. Particularly when they run out of words. In the case of a personContinue reading “Anna Deavere Smith by Thulani Davis | BOMB Magazine”

wake town tell people

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The Second Year

I’m not crying…you’re crying (too)

new york tang poem

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