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Minority Woman-owned Company Succeeds with New Technology.(ACT*1 Personnel Services)(Brief Article)
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Only three-and-a-half percent of technology workers are African-American. Out of 21,000 Microsoft employees, only 500 claim African heritage. In light of these numbers, the recent announcement of a $5 billion lawsuit against Microsoft for discriminating against its African-American employees may not be that surprising. So it is refreshing to learn that an African-American, woman-owned staffing agency is succeeding through its development of new technology.
In 1978, Janice Bryant Howroyd founded ACT*1 Personnel Services out of a small office in Beverly Hills, ...
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Alvin Ailey Jr., 58, modern dance giant and troupe founder
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; Alvin Ailey Jr., 58, founder of the internationally...City hospital of a blood disorder. Mr. Ailey had been suffering from the blood disease...The choreographer, who assembled the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater in 1958, earned worldwide...
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Alvin Ailey Jr., 58, modern dance giant
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; Alvin Ailey Jr., 58, founder of the internationally...City hospital of a blood disorder. Mr. Ailey had been suffering from the blood disease...The choreographer, who assembled the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater in 1958, earned worldwide...
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Alvin Ailey returns to the legendary Apollo Theater with glitz and glam
Newspaper article from: New York Beacon, The
; ...York Beacon, The 07-20-2005 Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc., under...artists of the world-renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT...ritualistic ballet Divining by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's Artistic...
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Judith Jamison: extending the Alvin Ailey dance legacy; late choreographer's protegee continues his work with rejuvenated company.
Magazine article from: Ebony
; WHEN choreographer Alvin Ailey died last year, the dance world wondered what would happen to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. But with...was with Mikhail Baryshnikov in Alvin Ailey's Pas de Duke, set to the music...
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Ailey Women Find Bond in `Love'.(Renee Robinson and Carmen de Lavallade expand "Sweet Bitter Love" for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine
; IN THE ALVIN AILEY COMPANY, with its rich legacy of strong...Flack, the work premieres during the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's City Center...tells the story from both viewpoints." Alvin Ailey first saw de Lavallade dance when they...
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Dancer Alvin Ailey, 58, Dies;Company Explored Black American Themes
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; Alvin Ailey Jr., the choreographer and director of a great American dance company...Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. The founder and director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater died of a blood dyscrasia, a rare disorder of...
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Alvin Ailey Dancers performed with brilliance, elegance and perception
Newspaper article from: Chicago Defender
; ...Billy Wilson and Alvin Ailey's Revelations, his signature...the revival of various Ailey ballets such as Night Creatures...followed the career of Alvin Ailey since he danced in New...Gilmore, Amos J. Machanic Jr. and Bonoit-Swan Pouffer...
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater keeps its cutting edge
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland
; WHEN Alvin Ailey, Jr died at the age of 58 in December 1989, the acclaimed dancer and choreographer...revisited at the Festival Theatre next week with the return of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, a company which grew from a groundbreaking...
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A celebration of dance: 50 years of Alvin Ailey.
Magazine article from: Ebony
; ...Jamaica, in which he was performing, 27-year-old Alvin Ailey Jr. presented as high art a ballet set to blues music...ordinary African-Americans. It was there that the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was born. In December 2008...
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IF IT'S APRIL IN BOSTON, IT MUST BE ALVIN AILEY COMPANY BRINGS EXCITING NEW WORK ON ITS ANNUAL VISIT
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; Boston and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater go...ago, she helped launch the Ailey Camp. "When you teach in...dancer Amos J. Machanic Jr. As a result of Jones...people who first attended Ailey performances 20 years ago...
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