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Article: Eartha Kitt to be featured on History Makers
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- Chicago Defender
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- September 17, 2008
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Julienna Richardson, founder and president of The HistoryMakers, a digital biographer and archivist of Blacks who influence history, announced that Eartha Kitt will be featured in An Evening with Eartha Kitt and will be interviewed by veteran journalist Gwen Ifill Saturday.
The show will look at Kitt's career as a versatile artist and her extraordinary accomplishments that span more than six decades.
Kitt made her professional dance debut with the Katherine Dunham Dance company, performing in such modem creations as Blue Holiday, Bal Negre and Casbah.
She was recognized as being among the finest of Dunham's dancers, along with Vanoye Aikens, Lucille ElUs, Linwood Morris and Jean Leon ...