‘Only in America’ Review: Al Jolson’s Rebellion
The public had heard enough, and blackface was not a factor ... lovers were musing about jazz a couple of decades ago when Al ...
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Chinese Toothpaste’s Blackface Branding Getting a Long-Overdue Retirement
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 ...
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Reviewing blackface in New York
A famed vaudevillian from the early 1900s, Al Jolson could be the most notable blackface performer of all time. He started ...