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 ...

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 ...

On a warm autumn evening, a half-dozen African American women — sisters, cousins, friends — gathered for an activity that first brought them joy decades ago. "I'd been looking for an outlet for ...

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 ...

There's jump rope, and then there's double Dutch jump rope. "It's jump rope and instead of one single rope, we're jumping in the middle of 2 jump ropes," LaDonna Reed said. "It's a 1-2 beat, so they ...

WASHINGTON - Renata Schmitt, clad in leggings and sneakers, long hair pulled back from her face, squinted at the two ropes that arced toward and away from each other in an eggbeater pattern, blurring ...

On a patch of concrete in Cow Meadow Park in Freeport, an intense game of double Dutch is in motion. Two jump ropes twirl so fast that the sound of them whipping in circles fills the air. But these ...

ATLANTA — A group of Georgia women over 40 is keeping their childhood love of Double Dutch alive, meeting weekly to bond and enjoy the sport. “40+ Double Dutch Club allows you as a woman over 40 to ...