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.

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 ...

Cummings broke barriers as a radical Black female dancer, ... It, like her other work, reflected a Black aesthetic vocabulary while defying traditions of white modern dance. More to Read .

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 ...

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.

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 … ...

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.

Chrisley’s prison confession: A White man finally says what Black America’s known June 6, 2025 Relationship between 47th president and key advisor implodes in spectacular public feud June 6, 2025 ...

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.

When Dallas Black Dance Theatre was founded in 1976, there were no smartphones. There was no Internet. There was no Instagram. Now, dancers build personal brands and grow followers for their art ...