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By Keyaira Boone ·Updated October 27, 2021
Misty Copeland learned she was the first Black soloist at the American Ballet Theater (ABT) in 2007. Shortly after she learned something else. “I was the second,” Copeland told ESSENCE.
“There had actually been Nora Kimball before me at American Ballet Theater, and I had never seen her photo or name mentioned in a history book. I couldn’t Google her and find out anything about her, but
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