Duncan in his prime (Image via Wiki)

Arthur Duncan, the trailblazing tap dancer who was the first-ever Black person who was a regular on a TV variety show — 1954's The Betty White Show — died January 3 at 89.

White famously kept him on her series after southern censors demanded he be fired, replying to them, “He stays. Live with it.”

Full obit on this TV legend here. All the others we have already lost in just the first two weeks of 2023 here.