At its core, the Black dandy figure uses fashion and aesthetics to engage in these power dynamics, highlighting the importance of personal style in shaping one's identity.

Black Figure Skaters See Performing as Their Best Way to Speak Out As the Black Lives Matter movement advanced, the ice became a platform for athletes who are also artists.

There are no Black athletes competing in figure skating for the Americans this year.

Not having the right tights for Black skaters "makes you feel like you’re not welcomed,” professional figure skater Louisa Warwin said.

The retired Black figure skater, the first woman to attempt a quad in Olympic competition, persevered against a culture that often didn't know what to make of the explosive athlete.

Black athletes in the U.S. were never barred from competing in figure skating, but Jim Crow laws that persisted into the 1960s restricted access to the sport.

A Black figure skater said that when she showed up to her show, the production company was in a frenzy trying to find her brown tights.

BEIJING (AP) — Before her own Olympic career began, Canadian figure skater Vanessa James had seen Black Girl Magic on the ice. It was on display at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, when French ...

Figure skating has long excluded Black athletes. The disparity can be seen from youth competitions all the way up to Team USA.

The National Portrait Gallery is tracing the Black figure throughout portraiture with its spring exhibition, ‘The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure’, with curator Ekow Eshun uniting ...

Black athletes in the U.S. were never barred from competing in figure skating, but Jim Crow laws that persisted into the 1960s restricted access to the sport.