By Karla Peterson, The San Diego Union-Tribune
Before his death in 1989 at the age of 58, choreographer and modern-dance giant Alvin Ailey accomplished many groundbreaking, boundary-busting things.
He helped establish modern dance as a popular art form capable of packing theaters and riveting audien
SAN DIEGO — For author Swan Huntley, the truths embedded in her third and latest novel were not stranger than fiction. But they were just as dramatic as anything she