For the 2021 BET Awards, host Taraji P. Henson introduced the City Girls by sharing a brief history of twerking. Her makeup, hair and outfit during the historical breakdown channeled 1930s cartoon ...

It’s not widely known, but Esther Jones — a black Harlem singer who performed regularly at the Cotton Club as Baby Esther — was an inspiration for the beloved cartoon sex symbol Betty Boop. This ...

(KFVS) - February is Black History Month, and in the spotlight for February 15, 2016 is Esther Jones, the inspiration for the iconic cartoon character Betty Boop. Jones was a jazz singer in Harlem who ...

On Aug. 9, 1930 — 95 years ago Saturday — the cartoon character of Betty Boop made her debut with the release of the Fleischer Studios animated short “Dizzy Dishes.” Except this wasn’t quite the Betty ...

The new Broadway-bound “Boop! The Musical” imagines what might happen if the early 1930s animation film-short sensation, born at Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount, found herself in modern ...

Jasmine Amy Rogers, who recently finished a run as the scene-stealing “Gretchen Wieners” in the national tour of Mean Girls, has been cast in the title role of the pre-Broadway world premiere of BOOP!

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Misinformation about animation history is so rampant on the internet that it’s barely worth pointing out. What is worth pointing out is when a reputable news source retracts an article that contains ...