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 ...

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 ...

Minstrel group, including members in blackface, c. 1890. Credit: The Jim Bollman Collection, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Long before phonographs and radio, traveling shows had crisscrossed the ...