Lula Washington didn't see dancers like her - so she created a company to train them

When Lula Washington was growing up in Los Angeles, she'd never seen black ballet dancers on a stage before. That changed in her 20s, when she went to a performance by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.

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