Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three actors who have played Shakespeare's Othello, from left: Laurence Fishburne on film in 1995, Laurence Olivier in offensive ...

Bright Sheng, a music professor from the University of Michigan, has been removed from a teaching post for showing his students the 1965 film version of Othello, with Laurence Olivier as the eponymous ...

Though public opinion has very much turned against the use of blackface by actors who aren’t Black, “Star Wars” actor Billy Dee Williams said he doesn’t have a problem with it. On Sunday’s Bill ...

Richard Dreyfuss is blasting the Oscars’ looming new inclusivity requirements — and defending the use of blackface in the process. These benchmarks aren’t particularly difficult to reach — all films ...

World-renowned composer and University of Michigan (UM) professor Bright Sheng will not be investigated by the university’s Equity, Civil Rights and Title IX office (ECRT) for possible discrimination ...

"He played a Black man brilliantly. Am I being told that I will never have a chance to play a Black man?" These benchmarks aren’t particularly difficult to reach — all films need to meet just two out ...