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 ...

The Black and White Minstrel Show, which ran from 1958 to 1978 was arguably the BBC’s most glaring failure to understand the damage it could do when it traded in out-dated stereotypes.

If you've marched on St. Patrick’s Day anywhere in the world, you've likely heard the classic air “The Minstrel Boy” at every one of them, usually performed by a police or firefighter band.

The Black and White Minstrel Show, which ran from 1958 to 1978 was arguably the BBC’s most glaring failure to understand the damage it could do when it traded in out-dated stereotypes.

"Bamboozled,'' which stars Damon Wayans and Jada Pinkett Smith, follows the life of a black television writer who, under pressure to drive up ratings, creates a black minstrel show. Convinced the ...

It was there, in a sprawling live room big enough to facilitate games of badminton between takes, that Jethro Tull recorded their eighth studio album, Minstrel In The Gallery, between May 15 and ...

The man who composed Ida (“sweet as apple cider”) died last week in a $3-a-day Manhattan hotel room. He was Eddie Leonard, last of the great minstrels, whose blackface showmanship, eager voice ...

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 ...