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Judith Jamison has devoted most of her adult life to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: She performed with the company for 15 years, led it as artistic director for more than two decades, and now at age 75 serves as the artistic director emerita — and one of the few remaining links to the late Ailey himself.

Judith Jamison has devoted most of her adult life to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: She performed with the company for 15 years, led it as artistic director for more than two decades, and now at age 75 serves as the artistic director emerita — and one of the few remaining links to the late Ailey himself.

She chose choreographer Robert Battle as her successor and served as the company’s artistic director emerita until her death.

“Pregnant women have become essentially untouchables,” said Sara Rosenbaum, a health law and policy professor emerita at George Washington University.

Arlie Hochschild is a Professor Emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.