Let’s take a step back. Minstrel shows were a popular form of entertainment for whites in the 1840s. They consisted of white actors in blackface, acting as blacks, mocking them and portraying ...

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.

JIM CROW was an old Baltimore slave who made history. Inadvertently. He had the most menial of tasks, sweeping out stables. But the deformed old man had magic in his soul. He was a musical genius, … ...

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 first show was documented in the paper as well, in an article titled “Minstrel Show is well received.” It took place on Dec. 29, 1917, and featured over 40 students. The other purpose of the ...

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 ...

Unsettling and compelling, Max Sparber's "Minstrel Show or the Lynching of William Brown" re-creates a harrowing true story about the 1919 lynching of a jailed black man, as seen through the eyes ...

But Minstrel Show isn't all moody introspection."Beautiful Morning" opens the album on an appropriately ecstatic note, while "Cheatin'" is a parody of a convoluted R. Kelly/Ron Isley story-song so ...