As a girl, Fatima Dulvie would spend New Year’s Day perched on the wall of her home in Cape Town’s historic District Six area ...

There appears to be no end in sight to the dispute between the Cape Town Minstrel Carnival Association (CTMCA) and the city ...

“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 ...

The City of Cape Town has been ordered to urgently identify a suitable alternative venue for the Cape Town Minstrel Carnival ...

Sir Lenny Henry has said he needed therapy after appearing on The Black and White Minstrel Show. The comedian admitted he “didn’t realise” what he was doing when he became the first black performer to ...

The Cape Town Minstrel Carnival Association has won a court battle against the City of Cape Town over venue permits for their ...

Jo Ellen Bickmeier was Jo Ellen Sylvester back then, a sixth-grader at Bloomington’s Arlington Heights Elementary School appearing in a 90-minute Friday evening minstrel show called “The Darktown ...

If U Black Niggas Network, the satirical television station at the center of the 2005 Atlantic Records debut by Durham’s Little Brother, had been a real cable network, the tone of the broadcast would ...

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 ...

If you've marched on St. Patrick’s Day anywhere in the world, you've likely heard the classic air “The Minstrel Boy” at every one of them, usually performed by a police or firefighter band. The song ...

'Minstrel in the Gallery,' Jethro Tull's eighth LP, is being remastered and expanded for its 40th birthday. The band's fifth consecutive U.S. Top 10 album -- and the last to feature the longtime ...