On a trip to Sydney in 1956, Joan Anderson was amazed to discover a new trend sweeping Australia’s beaches and streets. People were “doing the hoop” — twirling a sturdy, circular ring of bamboo around ...

From their origins in ancient African civilizations, hoop earrings have been a constant in Black cultural expression. Designers like Simone I. Smith are redefining the legacy of hoop earrings.

In 1956, Joan Anderson, a Los Angeles housewife and onetime model, flew to Australia, her home country, to visit her parents. When she arrived, she realized that a curious fitness craze had taken hold ...

Marquez Price is a Tucson original. A former prep basketball star (and the son of an even bigger former prep basketball star), he’s an inveterate hoops junkie with a taste for arcane literature. He’s ...

Although her name was left out of hula hoop history for years, it was Anderson who took the hoop from Australia to America and, with her husband, set a business deal in motion that turned the toy into ...