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 ...

"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 ...

NEWBURYPORT — Newburyport Black History Initiative co-organizer Geordie Vining will make a presentation Wednesday, Dec. 10, at 7 p.m. about blackface minstrel shows frequently seen on stage in ...

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 ...

In 2013, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes was researching blackface in America when she encountered a stumbling block at the Library of Congress: Various primary sources on the subject were listed as ...

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 ...