In addition to being a legendary ballerina, philanthropist and public speaker, Misty Copeland is an activist, who continues to address discrimination in the at-times racist world of ballet.
Copeland finally addressed how she felt after receiving backlash last December for calling out the Bolshoi Theatre in Russia for dressing up their ballet dancers in blackface. “They’re one of the biggest, most elite companies in the world, they’re in Russia, and they still perform in blackface,” Copeland said during an appearance at the Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit in Las Vegas last Friday, referring to the Bolshoi Theatre. “I…made it aware to the broader world just by posting a photo of the little girls in blackface.
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