A new NPR profile this week celebrates the art and legacy of jumping double dutch–the game that came to create and define Black Girl Magic as the artform enters its 50th year as an organized sport.

JoAnn Brooks, 67, is a gym teacher in the Hartford schools. On a recent weeknight, she was strolling in Mortensen Riverfront Plaza with a friend and came across a bunch of kids and young adults doing ...

The fountain of youth is only a hop, skip, and a jump away for women in the 40+ Double Dutch Club.(6abc) This story originally appeared on 6abc. A childhood pastime of jumping rope has turned into a ...

Dutch settlers may have brought Double Dutch to America, but it was Black girls who put it on the map, says Lauren Walker, president of the National Double Dutch League. “Double Dutch is Black girl ...

Last Sunday, at the Double Dutch Summer Classic, a jump-rope competition held at the Josie Robertson Plaza, at Lincoln Center, in Manhattan, Miss K’s Loopy Jumpers, fourth- and fifth-graders from ...

How many times have you sung "Miss Mary Mack?" "With silver buttons, buttons, buttons, all down her back, back, back." It’s catchy. Some sing it to hand claps. Others to jump rope, like double dutch.

Artist: Kyra D. GauntTitle: The Games Black Girls Play: Learning The Ropes From Double Dutch To Hip-Hop (Book)Rating: 4 StarsReviewed by: Nadiyah R. Bradshaw “Oh, Mary Mack Mack Mack, Aall dressed in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Imagine starting a club with a handful of people, and, within years, the group has grown into a global phenomenon with tens of thousands of members. That club is on Chicago's South ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- A childhood pastime of jumping rope has turned into a present-day passion for women across the country. "I was scrolling on Facebook one day, you know, just ...