Remembering Delores Browne

by Norma Porter
Special thanks to Jill WIlliams from Clark Center NYC!

Delores Browne and Bernard Johnson. Photo courtesy of Clark Center NYC.

The past few years we have seen some of Black dance’s biggest leaders transition:

1. Arthur Mitchell

2. Louis Johnson

3. Raven Wilkinson

4. Melvin Deal

5. Dr. Kariamu Welsh

To hear that Ms. Delores Browne transitioned earlier this month left me a bit paralyzed.

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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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