Five Pioneering Black Ballerinas: ‘We Have to Have a Voice’. Dancing, Black People, Blacks, Content Type: Personal Profile, Women and Girls, Dance Theater of Harlem, Mitchell, Arthur, Sells, Marcia Lynn, Rohan, Sheila, McKinney-Griffith, Gayle, Shelton-Benjamin, Karlya, Abarca-Mitchell, Lydia, Johnson, Virginia (1950- )