One memorial service wasn’t enough to honor Baba Chuck Davis. Ultimately, three separate commemorative events, hundreds of miles apart, were necessary to properly celebrate the life and achievements ...

Baba Chuck Davis had a way of standing out in a crowd. A mountain of a man who stood six feet six inches tall, he had no choice. But Davis’s stage presence, somehow, was even larger than his frame.

Chuck Davis, a master choreographer and teacher of traditional African dance styles who founded dance companies in North Carolina and New York, died Sunday at the age of 80. Those who loved him held a ...