Actor Billy Dee Williams shocked his fans while giving his opinion about actors wearing blackface, which is viewed as unacceptable in today’s climate and considered mocking African-Americans.

Long before phonographs and radio, traveling shows had crisscrossed the countryside, bringing theatrical performances that featured music between acts, written by professional songsmiths from the ...

Two black brothers in a traveling minstrel show in the early part of the twentieth century have two different goals. One brother is determined to succeed in a field that is dominated by white ...

Every film production has its own stories of research and discovery. For Stephen Foster producers Beth Hager and Randy MacLowry, creating the dances Stephen Foster would have seen was a major ...

The history of blackface dates back to the American minstrel shows of the 19th century, in which white performers caricatured ...

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 ...