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 ...

Nigel Farage on Thursday hit back at the BBC (completely justifiably) for amplifying remarks he might have made as a child, ...

Nigel Farage raised his voice at a BBC journalist for questioning him over school day racism allegations when the broadcaster had screened blackface in the 1970s.

The Black and White Minstrel Show was a British light entertainment show that ran on BBC television from 1958 to 1978 and was a popular stage show. It was a weekly light entertainment and variety show ...

As early as the 1830s, the black abolitionist and social reformer Frederick Douglas observed white men darkening their faces with burnt cork for satirizing and ridiculing Black people in public ...