2024 Black Dance USA: Celebrations in Movement, a conference held over three days, April 11-13, 2024, was the first National Dance Conference produced by Better Family Life since before the
In front of the crowds and the cameras, the speeches of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other men loomed large 60 years ago at the March on Washington.
But the women, including those of faith, who played roles in its organization, its music and its news coverage were mostly left off the official program.
(RNS) ‘You wanted to present your best selves,’ recalled Bishop Vashti McKenzie, who was 16 at the time. ‘There was no one in jeans and T-shirts that I recall.’