In this interview, Cheryl Thompson, author of ‘Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict and Freedom, ...

Cultural historian and Spacing contributor Cheryl Thompson launches her new book, Canada and the Blackface Atlantic, tonight ...

For its first exhibition focused on Black style, the Met’s Costume Institute celebrates the Black dandy in its galleries and ...

When George Gershwin visited a cottage in Folly Beach, S.C., in 1934, “Porgy and Bess” came to life. But will it remain a ...

A primary school teacher who accidentally showed a film clip containing blackface to a class of Year 5 pupils has been found ...

A primary school teacher who accidentally showed a film clip containing blackface to a class of pupils aged nine to 10 has been found to have behaved inappropriately. Grace Whiley played the video of ...

The Mysterious Girl singer, 52, stars as lead character Gary Buckle in crime-comedy, Jafaican, which is set for release later ...

The Britannia Coconut Dancers paraded through Bacup, Lancs and vowed not to "cower" to pressure to them stop blacking up.

The song emphasizes the humanity and close family ties of the enslaved population at a time when African Americans were routinely dehumanized and caricatured. And then there's this from Louisville ...

However, Professor Buckland acknowledges that the actual origin of the Bacup practice is "complicated and now irretrievable" ...

He sang arias on the streets of San Francisco, performed on Broadway and collaborated on a musical about Al Jolson, which he ...