About the Album: In the 1920s, Al Jolson was America's most famous and highest-paid entertainer and dubbed The World's Greatest Entertainer. He popularised many songs that benefited from his ...

Its logo was a man in blackface likening the image of Al Jolson, a white performer who mocked African Americans in minstrel shows in the midst of the Jim Crow era. The idea was that blackface ...

A Black church coalition is walking back its call for MSNBC to suspend and investigate Rev. Al Sharpton after his nonprofit accepted $500,000 in donations from Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign.

Even today, kids know about Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig. But here’s the thing: most modern children think of the ...

Where were cops? Good Samaritans? We’re to let a man carve up citizens who are sitting quietly minding their business?

Civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton is blasting President-elect Donald J. Trump for not adding Black leaders to his cabinet selection so far, The Hill reports. During a segment of MSNBC’s ...

Sometimes, movies – even great ones – are put under the microscope for problematic characters, plotlines or moments. Other ...

Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition of student groups that took a leading role in the encampment protest last ...

Influencers and artists have made endorsements for presidential candidates throughout American history, starting in 1920 with Al Jolson supporting Warren Harding, according to HISTORY. Political ...

The Rev. Al Sharpton criticized President-elect Trump for lacking Black Cabinet or high-level administration appointees thus far. “In the two weeks since Donald Trump was elected to a second ...

The Hollywood Revue of 1929, directed by Charles Reisner (featuring the song “Singin’ in the Rain”) The Wild Party, directed ...