Whitney Houston, Roberta Flack, Nick Ashford, Valerie Simpson, and Diahann Carroll on the opening night of Ashford & Simpson’s first restaurant, The Sugar Bar Restaurant in NY.
Happy birthday to the late choreographer, activist and educator Katherine Dunham.
For more than 30 years, she directed the Katherine Dunham Dance Company, the only self-supported black dance company in America at the time. She was often called the “Mother of Black Dance.”