Misty Copeland, after greeting Oprah, spoke with USA TODAY before her final performance for the American Ballet Theatre.

Copeland’s role as the first African American female principal dancer at ABT has had a lasting impact, paving the way for ...

Misty Copeland, the Missouri-born ballerina who’s become a forceful voice for diversity in ballet and achieved a celebrity that far transcends that rarified world, was named principal dancer at ...

WHAT: In a recent ad for Under Armour, dancer Misty Copeland shows off her skills while a girl reads a rejection letter from a ballet academy explaining that Copeland has the “wrong body.” VERDICT: ...

Actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and professional ballerina Misty Copeland have joined basketball star Stephen Curry in criticizing the CEO of sports apparel company Under Armour for praising President ...

Next month, Misty Copeland will take the final bow of her trailblazing ballet career and, this month, she has a new children’s book that focuses on her early years. The first Black principal dancer ...

MISTY COPELAND never thought she’d want to stop moving. But in 2020, the ballet star hit a point where she remembers thinking, I just want to lie down. She ended up taking a five-year break from the ...