http://www.communityradar.com/story.php?title=black-minstrels-history- 8-10 p.m. – Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen investigate the history of black minstrelsy that was adopted in the mid-nineteenth century by African American performers who played the grinning black face fool to entertain black and white audiences. “Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop” explores the origins, heyday, and present-day manifestations of this [...] Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:03:08 UTC en