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 ...

Arthur Duncan, a tap dancer and singer who became one of the first African American regulars on a TV variety show, joining “The Betty White Show” in 1954 — to the dismay of some viewers who tried to ...