Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sir Lenny Henry performed on The Black and White Minstrel Show in the 1970s - Kevin Holt/Shutterstock Sir Lenny Henry has said he ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Boulter applies his make-up before the final performance of the Black and White Minstrels stage show at the Victoria Palace ...

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 ...

RACINE - It's said imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. While that may be true in some cases, it's not when it comes to minstrel shows. In the 19th century minstrel shows were America's most ...

The Morgan Park Hi-Y Club will perform its inaugural blackface minstrel show at Morgan Park School. The show will feature an interlocutor (or leader), several "end men" (who exchange comic retorts ...

College of Puget Sound faculty, students, and alumni present the minstrel show "Gentlemen, Be Seated" on 22-23 Oct 1947 in Jones Hall auditorium. Master of ceremonies, front row, center, is registrar ...

This horse skeleton, one of the earliest puppets in the Museum's collection, is part of an unusual marionette minstrel show said to have been staged on a showboat traveling up and down the Mississippi ...