Quite a long time ago, Thomas Mead was told that he had a natural ear for music. His 68-year (and ongoing) career as a minstrel singer is solid evidence of that appraisal. Probably few people who ...

“So now any black person’s photo on a box is racism? Give me a break.” That message was one of many that crossed my screen after sharing a story I had written about Aunt Jemima and other brands ...

Every film production has its own stories of research and discovery. For Stephen Foster producers Beth Hager and Randy MacLowry, creating the dances Stephen Foster would have seen was a major ...

Sheet music cover for 'James Bland's 3 Great Songs, 1879. Scanned from Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America by Robert Toll. From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and ...

An MSNBC guest-host turned heads on Sunday when she labeled the Republican National Convention, which featured several Black speakers, a “modern-day minstrel show.” Subbing in for Joy Reid on her ...

Let’s begin with a little history lesson. In the long, long ago of 1992, Square Enix released the fantastic Romancing SaGa on the Super Famicon in Japan. The fourth SaGa game, it revolutionized the ...