She received honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Dayton and Wright State University, as well as prestigious awards including the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship Award, the Dance/USA 2000 Honors Award, the Katherine Dunham Award, the Dance Magazine Award, The National Black Arts Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Dance Women Living Legend Honors, and the Regional Dance America Northeast Award.
People of all ages and races have gathered together to bask in the presence of: Maya Angelou, Charles Dutton, Wynton Marsalis, Amiri Baraka, Avery Brooks, Nancy Wilson, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Spike Lee, Ousmane Sembène, Pearl Cleage, Kenny Leon, Carrie Mae Weems, Radcliffe Bailey, Sonia Sanchez and literally thousands of other artists from the USA and around the world.
National Football League | Bachelor of Arts | National Register of Historic Places | National Hockey League | Black Sea | England national football team | National Basketball Association | National Science Foundation | Sundance Film Festival | National Geographic | National Trust | Master of Arts (postgraduate) | National Endowment for the Arts | National Geographic Society | Argentina national football team | National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty | National Park Service | National League | Australian National University | Black Forest | National Guard | National Geographic Channel | National Institutes of Health | Master of Arts | Cannes Film Festival | National Guard of the United States | National Collegiate Athletic Association | United States National Research Council | National Portrait Gallery | National Academy of Sciences |