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.

A group of students from a Rondo Double Dutch class at their showcase in December 2024. NINA MOINI: Does this sound bring back memories of jumping rope? It's from a song that a Double Dutch class in ...

How many times have you sung "Miss Mary Mack?" "With silver buttons, buttons, buttons, all down her back, back, back." It’s catchy. Some sing it to hand claps. Others to jump rope, like double dutch.

So Burns and Rinehardt decided to create a Facebook event page and named it “Philly Girls Jump!” They hadn’t jumped Double Dutch in nearly twenty years and were hoping that just ten of their friends ...

Kevin Gates continues to build buzz for his upcoming album I’m Him. On Saturday, Gates dropped “Double Dutch” (In Amsterdam Witt It) produced by Pi'erre Bourne. Over a bass-heavy beat, Gates locks in ...

Dutch settlers may have brought Double Dutch to America, but it was Black girls who put it on the map, says Lauren Walker, president of the National Double Dutch League. “Double Dutch is Black girl ...

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well—some inspired by a weekly theme and some not, but always songs worth hearing. Growing up, falling in love with a song a weird ...