The minstrel stage was about African-American men being harmless, lazy, funny and maybe tricksters. Even though there is humor in hip-hop, the violence isn’t supposed to be a punch line.

Some Americans are unaware that the ice cream song that attracted the attention of children and adults for generations has a ...

Insidious new trend: Minstrel show rap. Flush with revenue from the likes of Mike Jones' Who Is Mike Jones?, the Ying Yang Twins' "Wait (The Whisper Song)," Three-Six Mafia's Academy Award-winning ...

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.

Working together, Jackson and Sloan drew on their collective knowledge of a wide range of European, African, and American dance traditions to create the minstrel dances MacLowry and Hager wanted ...

How minstrel tune became the signature song of the Mummers Parade. Once an international star, the Black composer of “Oh Dem Golden Slippers” died penniless in Philadelphia. By; Peter Crimmins; ...