Lloyd Freeman, a board member of the Philadelphia Ballet, started the "Daddy and Me" initiative to encourage more men — particularly Black men — to bring their children to the ballet. He brought his ...

especially for Black and Brown children,” Copeland tells the New York Times’ Javier C. Hernández. The program will train students in ballet, music and health. BE BOLD’s teaching artists ...

TONIGHT, SUPERSTAR BALLERINA MISTY COPELAND AND HER GROUND BREAKING NEW DANCE PROGRAM FOR NEW YORK CITY KIDS. HOW SHE’S HELPING THE NEXT GENERATION OF BLACK AND LATINO DANCERS CHASE THEIR DREAMS ...

In memory of & tribute to my father, Sayyid Abdul-Mumit There was no callout for Black fathers to bring their children to the annual Dance Africa street festival in Brooklyn. But there they were ...

Misty Copeland broke barriers when she was named a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre in 2015. It was at this ...

We're always looking for minorities in dance and it's just important for representation. I hope that me stepping into the role of Clara is especially inspiring brown and Black kids in the audience ...

Simply said, she was my dance teacher! She was Miss Sydney as ... the 1940s and ‘50s and she continued to train and mentor Black children at her dancing school for six decades.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ten years ago this month, Misty Copeland sat in front of a hastily arranged news conference at American ...

I was like 'Why aren't there Black dancers on stage? Why do all the dancers look the same? Why are they all white?'" Durrett said. "So I hope that kids in Boston are able to come to the ballet and ...

On the cover was a portrait of an adolescent ballet dancer ... in scholarly books on Black children’s literature, in children’s literature courses or in research into early Black journalism.