President Donald Trump commemorated one of his most famous social media posts, marking nine years since he tasted the ...

blackface. I was stunned, but they just smiled, waved and went on their way. I remember thinking: “Go out like that in downtown Durham and you’ll get shot! How can this be real?” Back in our ...

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

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 ...

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

The time when Rob McElhenney’s It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia character Mac crossed all boundaries to make money.

Most people would say this has aged badly, but has it aged badly enough for people to ‘cancel’ it or stop watching it? The answer is probably no, as many viewers still laud it as a great rom-com and a ...

The Mysterious Girl singer, 52, stars as lead character Gary Buckle in crime-comedy, Jafaican, which is set for release later this year. In the film, Gary is tasked with mastering a Caribbean ...

From CCTV’s Celebrate Together skit, in which actress Lou Naiming in blackface and wearing fake buttocks puts on an accent to play an African mother, to the infamous commercial where a black man ...

Paul Vieira covers Canada for The Wall Street Journal, and is based in Ottawa.

Another widespread practice was "n*****ing", involving white individuals donning blackface to perform songs and play instruments. An 1896 article from the Rossendale Free Press described an ...