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Last Night In New York City: Dance Theatre Of Harlem's 'Vision Gala'

HuffingtonPost.com | Julee Wilson | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Bv-Fashion-and-Beauty, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Misty Copeland, Dance Theater of Harlem, Soledad O'Brien, Virginia Johnson, Hair-Beauty, Harry Belafonte, Arthur Mitchell, Lynn Whitfield, Black Voices News

At the Dance Theatre of Harlem's "Vision Gala" Tuesday night in New York City, special guest host Soledad O'Brien and the evening's honorary chairpers...

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The Dream: Diversity in the Arts

Michael Kaiser | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Dance Theatre of Harlem, Racial Equality, Arts Programming, Donors, Martin Luther King Jr., Arts, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Fundraising, Diversity, Arthur Mitchell, Foundations, Kennedy Center, Arts News
Michael Kaiser

Why, given so much social progress, have we failed to produce more leading arts organizations of color? I think there are two different answers.

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ARTISTS SPEAK: Talking With Dance Theatre Of Harlem's Arthur Mitchell

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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"I didn't want to be a ballet dancer. My motivation was the musicals," says Arthur Mitchell, one of the 20th-century's noblest classical dancers, who ...

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Homo-Harlem: Learning How to be Gay from Movies

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, James Baldwin, Alain-Leroy-Locke, Carol Brice, Kenneth Mcpherson, Homo Harlem Film Series, The Motion of Light in Water, State Senator Bill Perkins, Henry Van Dyke, Wesley Tann, Nora Holt, Earle Hyman, Jimmy Daniels, Museum of the City of New York, Richard Bruce Nugent, Bricktop, Willard Winter, Gerrie Major, George Platt Lynes, Cecil Beaton, Walter Nicks, Langston Hughes, Marvin and Morgan Smith, Samuel R. Delany, Oaks Bluff, Paul Meers, David Willson, Althea Gibson, Edward Perry, Adelaide Hall, Countee Cullen, Inter State Tattler, Philip Johnson, Dr. Godfrey Nurse, Duncan Grant, Billy Dee Williams, Nella Larsen, Times Square, Tallulah Bankhead, Sex in the City, Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Dorothy West, Johnathan Brice, J. Fredrick Lohman, Elsa Maxwell, Billy Strayhorn, Wallace Thurman, Charles Leslie, Truman Capote, Tom of Findland, Archie Savage, Marlon Brando, New York Amsterdam News, Carl Van Vechten, Maysles Cinema, Arthur Mitchell, Alvin Ailey, Martha's Vineyard, Jimmy Donahue, Clifton-Webb, Agustus Granville Dill, Monty Wooley, Cole Porter, Cary Grant, Joey Coleman, William Waefieldgeorge Platt Lynes, John Leapheart, Christopher Isherwood, Impact News
Michael Henry Adams

Yesterday, I saw the season's gay hit move of the summer, Sex in the City II, which has received such bad reviews, but my friends and I quite enjoyed ...

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African-American Firsts In New York

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Don Newcombe, David Paterson, Slidepoll, African-Americans New York, Nypd Samuel J Battle, Marian Anderson, Black New York, Jackie Robinson, Percy Sutton, Shirley Chisholm, Thomas L. Jennings, Samuel Battle, Todd Duncan, Nancy Hicks Maynard, Arthur Mitchell, David Dinkins, New York News

In 1911, Samuel Battle became the "first black officer to join" the NYPD. Today, nearly 100 years later, the intersection at West 135th Street and Le...

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