The founder of Pointe Black Ballet School in London said when ... REUTERS/Alishia Abodunde Passport pictures of Essel as a child are seen on the wall of her bedroom in south London, Britain ...

At the beginning of the year, Alishia Abodunde joined her friend, a former ballet dancer from New ... position during a class at Pointe Black. As a child growing up in England’s Norfolk County ...

Misty Copeland at the BET Black Girls Rock show in in Newark, New Jersey, in 2013 Photo by Brad Barket / BET / Getty Images for BET When Misty Copeland was 13 years old, she took her first ballet ...

And she believes it's just one step in the larger direction that ballet is going. In her new children's book ... there's just [an] idea that because I'm black I just look a certain way.

child-serving sites. Sponsor Message Copeland herself dedicates part of her success to a free ballet class offered by the Boys & Girls Club. She would go on to become the first Black woman to be ...

Philadelphia father Lloyd Freeman is starting a new tradition with his children and inviting other Black father figures to do the same. Photo: Getty Images Since joining the Philadelphia Ballet ...

Children from under-represented backgrounds are being offered scholarships at a ballet school in a bid to tackle traditional racial inequality in the sector. Spotlight Stage School, in Birmingham ...