The great scholar, W.E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called Double Consciousness, a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive.
Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Boiss words all too well. Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americansthe revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and tenant farmersAiley carries Du Boiss Problem on her shoulders.
Ailey is reared in the north in the City but spends summers in...
The great scholar, W.E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called Double Consciousness, a sensitivity that ...
