For her show on NBC called “The Betty White Show,” White hired a Black tap dancer named Arthur Duncan to be a regular on the program. This didn’t sit well with TV stations in the heavily ...

In 2017, Betty White reunited with then 83-year-old tap dancer Arthur Duncan, whom she had helped secure his first television job on her variety show The Betty White Show more than six decades prior.

They dated for a year before Linda, who is white, told her parents about Booker, who is Black. Interracial marriage was not legal in all 50 states until 1967, with the Supreme Court ruling in ...

The Cardinal Divas aren’t the first majorette group at a predominantly white institution — and they aren’t USC’s first predominantly Black dance group. In 1998, Lisha Bell, Maya Mitchell ...

Black Dancer Receives Blacklash For Bringing the HBCU Majorette Experience to Her PWI. Fingers are still typing, ... “Well when the white girls integrate it and take it over, ...

LONDON — A Black ballerina at one of Europe's premier ballet companies has called out racism in the elite dance world. French national Chloé Lopes Gomes, 29, said she was mocked for her skin ...

I am a ballet dancer and a Black man, in that order. I left the United States to train at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow at age 15 so that people would see my skill first and not my skin.

Asked to stop featuring Arthur Duncan, a Black tap dancer, on The Betty White Show in 1954, her answer was: "Live with it," per The Washington Post.

Though the population of Hartford is about 79 percent Black and Latino, the vast majority of actors, dancers and musicians performing on the city’s stages are white. Financial challenges bar … ...

Misty Copeland told CNN’s Chris Wallace that, like many Black ballerinas, she’s inherited generational trauma from decades of being told they aren’t good enough to perform in certain roles.

Solidarity in a siloed city: Members of the dance companies that are part of the Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project’s 2023 cohort. The 10 companies will share the stage at Ravinia on Sept. 7.