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.

On command, double dutch turners grab their ropes, jumpers assume their positions. Judges gaze downward, counting the steps of each jumper. The spectators eagerly sit at attention -- ready to catch a ...

You've probably seen it in school yards -- kids doing fancy jumps between two moving ropes. Double Dutch is often considered a street game associated mostly with black girls. But there are serious ...

The first thing that comes to my mind when I hear the word ‘double dutch’ is that it sounds yummy like ice cream. Last week, I was introduced to a Japanese teacher who accompanied eight Japanese ...

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 ...

You had already mastered skipping rope solo, but jumping in a single rope had you and your two friends bored. And really, seeing all the older girls jumping Double Dutch made you want to be a “big ...

About 500 women ages 40 and above met over the weekend in Chicago to have some fun while reliving childhood memories at the same time: by jumping double Dutch. It was part of a meetup of the 40+ ...

Before smartphones and Snapchat, the click-click of double Dutch jump-ropes could be heard in the streets and alleys of Washington and other urban areas. While the uninitiated might marvel at its ...

Tokyo, Fukuoka, and Nagoya—begins.I have three homes.I never imagined I would be living a life like this.When I started ...