Misty Copeland

Rise and Shine Obots! Today's featured dancer is Misty Copeland. Twenty-nine-year-old Misty Copeland has been described as an “unlikely ballerina” -- and not just because she was a teenager when she took her first lessons.  In an industry dominated by young Caucasian women who have been training since Kindergarten, Misty, a prodigy, became an award-winning ballerina after … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: African Americans in Ballet