What would Douglas have said had he seen the October 28, 2015 performance of Spectrum Dance Theater's The Minstrel Show Revisited at Skirball Hall?. Let's look at the typical outline of an old ...

Still, The Minstrel Show was timely. Consider its whimsical cover art: the delightful smiling black faces of three hip-hop Sambos, fresh off a big-money record deal with Atlantic.

Minstrel Shows in the 1800s . Texas A&M University professor Lorien Foote taught a class about popular culture during the 1840s. She described the popularity of minstrel shows and how it reflected ...

Minstrel Show, or The Lynching of William Brown. Where: New Jersey Repertory Company, 179 Broadway, Long Branch. When: Through Oct. 28. Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 3 and 8 p.m ...

The Minstrel Show Tavis Smiley and music critic Stephen Ivory discuss the claim by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that rap is "a modern day minstrel show." They also take a look at some of the songs on ...

The minstrel show format also became a popular one for local theater productions, and was often used by service clubs and other community organizations staging fundraisers and benefit shows.

Elsewhere in San Francisco, 42nd Street Moon is doing another musical that draws heavily upon minstrel-show tropes and features an all-Black cast except one.

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.

This week he expressed a minority personal opinion of Estes Kefauver and his Senate Crime Investigating Committee: “the greatest minstrel show on earth,” Moses called them. Switching on his ...

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. So, what ...