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 ...

It begins as a minstrel show, extends that racist form into a national hip-hop tour, and ends with a post-Civil War lecture. Dave Harris’ new play, “Tambo & Bones,” which opened Monday at Off Broadway ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Written by Max Sparber and directed by Darrell Lawrence Willis, Sr., this compelling production re-creates the horrific, true story of the 1919 lynching of a jailed black man, William Brown, as seen ...

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 ...

Sheet music cover for 'James Bland's 3 Great Songs, 1879. Scanned from Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America by Robert Toll. From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and ...

Supreme Court confirmation hearings have long since descended into partisan, chest-thumping endurance contests. They demonstrate little more than one individual’s ability to survive gotcha questions ...

Their profile jumped on the strength of producer 9th Wonder’s terrific work with Jay-Z (The Black Album‘s “Threat”), Jean Grae and Destiny’s Child, but emcees Big Pooh and Phonte aren’t exactly ...

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 ...

Tavis Smiley and music critic Stephen Ivory discuss the claim by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that rap is "a modern day minstrel show." They also take a look at some of the songs on the Billboard rap ...