NEW YORK CITY -- 9-year-old April and 10-year-old Brooke were banned from performing in the annual "Black Nutcracker" in New York City because of their braids, according to their mother. Every year ...

Ever since Gilmore Girls, writer/director/showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino has become synonymous with a certain kind of cozy, girly escapism. That was initially the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Most of the 15 middle-school girls on the dance team at the St. Charles Recreation Center are at that coltish stage of adolescence, standing hipshot, with ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Ana Shushu remembers the first time she saw a fan of arms extending and retracting in careful, choreographed motion for the Buddha with a Thousand Hands ...

Empowering young Black and Brown girls on the South Side of Chicago is the mission of Black Girls Dance, a nonprofit that is getting a new home in the Calumet Heights neighborhood. Black Girls Dance ...