 Through the attendance of students of the BAS-sponsored Department of Black Community Education Research and Development (DBCERD - Black Studies), and, from the expanding community audiences made available through publicity of the plays, the BHT flourished.Indeed, BHT became a repertoire theater which performed in numerous locations, including Oberlin College in Ohio and at Barbara Ann Teer's National Black Theatre (NBT) in Harlem, New York, New York.Curtiss Porter, who is often underwritten or completely left out of the history of these circumstances, was a writer and Director of some of BHT's earliest productions