Richard Bernstein wastes no time dealing with the radioactive subject of blackface in his fascinating new biography of the Jewish singer and actor Al Jolson. He puts the rightly reviled practice ...

Upon receiving a copy of Richard Bernstein’s “Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer ... He is literally the poster boy for blackface minstrelsy as it was in its final hurrah ...

Works in the artist’s show at the New York institution include a video installation in which he narrates a story of racially ...