From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)

Dhana Bradley Morton Donaldson, from Louisville, KY, earned her Speech/Oral Interpretive Arts degree from Western Kentucky University. She was WLOU-AM News Director prior to teaming up with Priscilla Hancock Cooper for a number of creative collaborations. Their first production was a poetic concert in 1981, I Have Been Hungry All of My Years (1985), followed by Four Women and God's Trombones (1991). They also performed in Amazing Grace in 1993.

Bradley-Morton and Cooper are featured in the KET Production, Words Like Freedom/Sturdy Black Bridges, a poetic concert featuring African-American writing and music. Together they founded the Theater Workshop of Louisville. In 1994 Bradley-Morton was named executive director of the Cincinnati Arts Consortium; she left the position in January 2002. [She now goes by the name Dhana Donaldson.]

Dhana Bradley Morton Donaldson was born in Lynchburg, VA, the daughter of Lester and Florence Bradley. She grew up in Louisville, KY.

For more see B. Brady, "Architecturally Sound," CityBeat, vol. 6, issue 33 (2000); "Prize Possessions," Cincinnati.com The Enquirer, 22 April 2001; Dhana Bradley Morton Donaldson at the Corinthian Baptist Church: Deceased Members webpage; and "Dhana Bradley Donaldson," The News and Advance, 11/19/2022, p. A4.