The battalion was recently awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for their outstanding achievements.

For more than 30 years, Charlotte Blake Alston has graced stages in venues throughout North America and abroad, including the Kennedy Center, Smithsonian Institution, and the Kimmel Center. She has narrated for symphony orchestras and performed at storytelling festivals all over the world. Blake Alston is a frequent guest artist at universities, schools, museums and cultural arts centers, but the former elementary school teacher also loves appearing at day cares for special needs children, as well as prisons and youth detention centers.

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