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 ...

There’s a letter from Stepin Fetchit in the John Ford papers at the Lilly Library. It’s handwritten, articulate, dignified, very There’s a letter from Stepin Fetchit in the John Ford papers at the ...

The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry By Mel Watkins Pantheon. 338 pp. $26.95 In the pathbreaking 1968 documentary "Black History, Lost, Stolen or Strayed," narrator Bill Cosby identified the ...

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