If Stepin Fetchit could have written his own legacy, he’d have described himself as a pioneer in American cinema, a comedian whose talents helped secure a place for black faces in the formative years ...

Most performers don’t get to meet the figures from history they portray. Patti LuPone never said hello to Eva Peron. Tom Hulce didn’t shake hands with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. But Ben Vereen met both ...

Few pop consumers remember who Stepin Fetchit was. That must mean we’ve come a long way from the period when mass media trafficked in racist black stereotypes, because Stepin Fetchit was one of the ...

Stepin Fetchit, the character that Lincoln Theodore Perry created, made the Key West native a millionaire and gave him the life of a flamboyant celebrity during the Depression. But his trademark ...

It would be hard to imagine two more divergent personalities than heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali and Hollywood comedian Stepin Fetchit. Temperamental opposites, they formed an improbable alliance ...

During his time, Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry’s success could have been considered the epitome of any man’s dream, regardless of race. Born in Key West, Fla., in 1892 to Caribbean parents, ...

A block away from Hollywood Boulevard, at 1751 Vine Street, sits a peculiar star on the Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, a reminder of a period of history that many in the film industry might prefer to ...

Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry – named after four Presidents – was a huge screen star of the 1920s and ’30s. He was also an incendiary figure who personified the problems of American race ...

This article originally appeared in Vulture. A block away from Hollywood Boulevard, at 1751 Vine Street, sits a peculiar star on the Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, a reminder of a period of history that ...