Arthur Duncan, who kept tap dancing visible and relevant across the country on television when most had relegated it to the past and who also broke ground as a Black entertainer, has died at 97.
Betty White rejected attempts to keep Black dancer Arthur Duncan off her show in the 1950s. Her respond to pressure to stop featuring him was that people had to "live with it." The show was Duncan's ...
Betty White, also known as the “First Lady of Television,” wore many hats, as a comedian, a talk show host, an actress, and more. But one heartwarming story about her principled stand in supporting a ...
For Arthur Duncan, Lawrence Welk was much more than a band leader with a funny accent. As “The King of the Taps,” Duncan cemented his career by appearing on the nationally televised Welk show for 18 ...
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