FREDERICK CHARLES BENJAMIN by Dale Ricardo Shields Page 1 – 8 Dancer – Choreographer { September 8, 1944 – December 14, 2013 } Page 1 – 8 Fred Benjamin, an internationally known teacher of jazz dance who was also part of the creative wave of young Black modern-dance choreographers who came to prominence in the 1970s. …
VINNETTE JUSTINE CARROLL The first African-American woman to direct on Broadway and the first Black woman to receive a Tony Award nomination, for her direction of the musical revue “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope” in 1972. “We still need Black theatre. But I think we need to show Black people just living, just trying …
