Home ‘Afternoon Shift’ #136: Black entertainment URL Copied! Menu Donate ‘Afternoon Shift’ #136: Black entertainment By Andrew Gill Aug 28, 2012, 1:52pm CT URL Copied! ‘Afternoon Shift’ #136: Black entertainment By Andrew Gill Aug 28, 2012, 1:52pm CT URL Copied! WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information. Sign up for our newsletters to stay up to date on the stories that matter. [View the story “‘Afternoon Shift’ #136: Black entertainment” on Storify] ‘Afternoon Shift’ #136: Black entertainment We talk with the authors of a book on black minstrelsy, then talk in depth with the legendary Wynton Marsalis. Storified by · Tue, Aug 28 2012 09:40:38 The book Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop makes the provocative argument that some modern hip-hop stars are the new generation of black minstrels. We talk with the book’s authors Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen on Tuesday’s show. Here’s a montage of minstrel shows from Spike Lee’s 2000 satire Bamboozled. Blackface Montage from Spike Lee’s Bamboozledtimeforevolution
