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 ...

Former MSNBC host Joy Reid shared a video examining claims that 'Jingle Bells' has roots in 19th-century minstrel shows.

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 ...

Minstrel shows are outlawed because they depict a minority group in what some claim is an unflattering way. Professional sports teams are spending big bucks to have mascots that mimic minorities or ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I've lived here a long time and have learned and heard about a lot of things, but a couple of weeks ago I heard about something that really threw me. Did you know that well into the 1960s, a common ...

One year after The Minstrel Show, what’s next for the Hall of Justus? For our Oct. 5, 2005 issue, Grayson Currin joined Little Brother and their Hall of Justus entourage–L.E.G.A.C.Y., The Away Team, ...

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 ...

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 ...