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NEW YORK − For Misty Copeland, dance has always been her activism. In 2015, she became the first Black woman in American Ballet Theatre history to be promoted to principal dancer, more than a decade ...

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Copeland says her final performance with American Ballet Theatre was a thank you to the communities that had supported her. "What I represented is something far bigger than me," she says.