BDM Content Focus: How to Handle when our Elders Transition

Black Dance Magazine Founding Publisher and Editor Norma Porter. Photo by Ra Hall.

As I work with the community to shape the content direction of Black Dance Magazine, I am taking back to my newspaper days in 2001-2011. I found myself “pigeonhole” in Black Media, and perpetually broke. It didn’t matter how many mixers I tried to attend at the National Press Club or the Washington Association of Blacks in Journalism events I went to. It felt like I’d be working for a small, weekly African American newspaper forever.

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Step Afrika! Celebrates 30 Years with US Tour

Step Afrika! Company Members in Drumfolk. Photo by Jacob Andrew Iwinski.

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

By Norma Porter

Step Afrika!, the first company dedicated to the African American tradition of stepping, celebrates its 30th anniversary season with its first show at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in Pennsylvania September 16-17.

The Company will present the final performance of Drumfolk and commemorate the return of The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence.

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