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 stood up to racism when she refused to take African-American tap dancer Arthur Duncan off her show back in the ’50s.

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.

LOS ANGELES – You won’t catch Arthur Duncan badmouthing Lawrence Welk. The champagne music maker “was firm, but he loved what he did,” the longtime dancer says. “He had a firm hand on ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES – You won’t catch Arthur Duncan badmouthing Lawrence Welk. The champagne music maker “was firm, but he loved what he did,” the longtime dancer says. “He had a firm hand on ...