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Short Fuse Podcast #68: “The Swans of Harlem”

July 19, 2024
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Elizabeth Howard talks to “Swans of Harlem” author Karen Valby and Lydia Abarca, a prima ballerina and one of the Swans, about the forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas.

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