The Swans of Harlem | Karen Valby

Join Michael in his conversation with Karen Valby about her new book The Swans of Harlem:Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History which tells the story of the five original ballerinas in the Dance Theater of Harlem.

This is Karen’s second book. She is a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair, and her writing has appeared in, among other places, The New York Times, Fast Company, Time, Glamour, and Entertainment Weekly, where she spent fifteen years writing about pop culture.