Artist: Little BrotherTitle: The Minstrel ShowRating: 5 StarsReviewed by: Martin A. Berrios Up until recently, the sky blue Tarheel colors and Petey Pablo seemed to be the only reasons Hip-Hop checked ...

The sight of middle-class South Bay suburbanites donning blackface makeup in order to play roles in minstrel shows at the local high school auditorium benefit show is wildly inappropriate by modern ...

“So now any black person’s photo on a box is racism? Give me a break.” That message was one of many that crossed my screen after sharing a story I had written about Aunt Jemima and other brands ...

I see ABB Records has decided to put up a repress of The Minstrel Show on vinyl instead of answering for 16 years of non payment on TMS or answering for 18 years of non payment for The Listening.

Sir Lenny Henry has said he needed therapy after appearing on The Black and White Minstrel Show. The comedian admitted he “didn’t realise” what he was doing when he became the first black performer to ...

The trio Little Brother—rappers Big Pooh and Phonte with DJ 9th Wonder—has officially popped off, and finally, N.C. rap has a respectable national foothold, toppling Petey Pablo from a very tiny ...

Trend piece alert: yesterday’s Baltimore Sun featured a piece by Rashod D. Ollison on the supposed rise of “minstrel rap.” The article is a loose rewrite of a month-old article in the New York Daily ...

The Black and White Minstrel Show was a British light entertainment show that ran on BBC television from 1958 to 1978 and was a popular stage show. It was a weekly light entertainment and variety show ...

An MSNBC guest-host turned heads on Sunday when she labeled the Republican National Convention, which featured several Black speakers, a “modern-day minstrel show.” Subbing in for Joy Reid on her ...

Spike Lee is at it again. Next week his 11th and possibly most controversial movie, "Bamboozled," will open to audiences across the country, and tongues are already wagging. An advertisement for the ...