Richard Bernstein's biography charts Jolson's success and addresses the reviled practice of blackface that helped to make ...

a Baltimore actor who specialized in impersonations of Al Jolson, decided to stop his act four years ago — audiences objected to him performing, authentically, in blackface.

The New York congressman apologized for wearing blackface in a newly revealed college photo — before suggesting that what he ...

"The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson, the first movie with talking actors, was released on this day in history, Oct. 6, 1927.

Rep. Mike Lawler wearing blackface as part of a Halloween costume, but he's not the first public figure in New York to cause ...

Though Mr Rice died in 1860, blackface and Mr Rice's legacy of Jim Crow continued unabated. Sheridan Libraries/Levy/Gado Sheet music depicting white singer and comedian Al Jolson in blackface When ...

He throws on his own form of blackface as casually as Al Jolson does in the middle of a conversation in "The Jazz Singer" (1927). A white man playing a black character is reasonably understood as ...

"The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson, the first movie that ... condemnation from modern critics, namely for Jolson’s widespread use of blackface. Rabinowitz, his budding pop performer, leaves ...

"The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson, the first movie that incorporated synchronized speaking parts for its actors, was released on this day in history, Oct. 6, 1927. Primitive by today’s ...