A primary school teacher who accidentally showed a film clip containing blackface to a class of Year 5 pupils has been found to have behaved inappropriately.Grace Whiley played the video of an old ...

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 ...

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

Before the 1830s, when blackface minstrelsy begins formally, African Americans, people whom we today would call African Americans, have been involved in local entertainment. They are the fiddlers ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler said he was sorry Thursday after the New York Times obtained photos of him wearing blackface about two decades ago at a college Halloween costume party where he dressed as ...

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