The Fulcrum introduces Congress Bill Spotlight, a weekly report by Jesse Rifkin, focusing on the noteworthy legislation of the thousands introduced in Congress. Rifkin has written about Congress for ...

I’ve been a fan of tap dancing since I was a kid watching stars like Ruby Keeler, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Shirley Temple and James Cagney in old movies before I discovered the even ...

I’ve been a fan of tap dancing since I was a kid watching stars like Ruby Keeler, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Shirley Temple and James Cagney in old movies before I discovered the even ...

WHEN Bill “Bojangles” Robinson tap danced his way up and down a set of stairs, hand-in-hand with child star Shirley Temple in the 1935 film The Little Colonel, he almost stole the show.

Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple holding hands on a descending staircase in "The Little Colonel." ...More Undated movie still. BPA2# 3199. Bettmann Archive. Ninety-years ago on this day - February ...

In December 1933, five-year-old Shirley Temple signed with a nearly-bankrupt Fox Studios. In History looks back at how she revived the studio's fortunes – and became a superstar.

Shirley Temple, the iconic child actress of the 1930s and 1940s, is famous for many things. The song On the Good Ship Lollipop. Tap-dancing with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson is dancing in the aluminum statue that stands in Jackson Ward, the majority Black neighborhood where he grew up in racially segregated Richmond. But Robinson, a ...

Despite having over four decades between them, they became lifelong friends, appearing together in The Littlest Rebel, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and Just Around the Corner.In Child Star: An ...

While still a boy, Bill Robinson hopped a train north from Richmond. ... on tour and in such films as “The Little Colonel,” in which he taught Shirley Temple to tap dance up a flight of stairs.