Dance Teacher

LaDeva Davis

American television chef, dancer and educator (1944–2022)

Born 1944 · PhiladelphiaDied 2022United States
LaDeva Davis
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LaDeva Davis was an American dance teacher, born in 1944 in Philadelphia, who died in 2022.

Biography

LaDeva M. Davis (1944 – September 8, 2022) was an American television presenter and food educator who starred in the American public television series What's Cooking? She was the first African-American woman to have her own nationally syndicated public TV cooking show in the United States on the Public Broadcasting Service. She was awarded the Mary McLeod Bethune Award in 2015.

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Contemporaries

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