The game of Haxey Hood and Christian agricultural celebrations both historically involved attendees using blackface make-up.

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

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Photographs of traditional English folk events have been given trigger warnings over fears that images of people in blackface ...

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For the first time since the blackface controversy for New York Congressman Mike Lawler surfaced, his Democratic opponent in ...

The first-term Westchester lawmaker, who’s locked in a tight reelection fight, admits it was a mistake to don the offensive ...

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) is facing backlash following reports he wore blackface and dodged racist rhetoric just days before ...

“You abused your position, and you are a charlatan who used and is still using your prior position in office to peddle a snake oil that’s proven to be junk time and time again,” Judge Matthew Barrett ...

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

NY, in a tenuous position for re-election this November after photos surfaced of him wearing blackface in 2006. Democratic strategist Basil Smikle joins Chris Jansing to discuss the efforts of ...

New York Republican Congressman Michael Lawler is embroiled in controversy over a 2006 Halloween costume, when he dressed in ...