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.