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 Billboard rap ...

The final act consisted of a farcical number or a parody of a popular show. Choreographed, directed, and written by Donald Byrd, The Minstrel Show Revisited is fashioned in just that way.

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. An Atlantic ...

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 them as barbaric and ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...