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 ...

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 ...

To the extent that the black film comedian Stepin Fetchit is remembered at all today, it’s as a symbol of racism. Beginning his career in the late 1920s, Fetchit–whose real name was Lincoln Theodore ...

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 ...

Stepin Fetchit, whose portrayals of lazy, stereotypical black characters in numerous films made him one of the most controversial actors in Hollywood for three decades, will be examined this weekend ...

The name Stepin Fetchit has long been used to signify the ultimate negative African-American stereotype -- but almost nothing had been written about him. He made his name as a comedian while becoming ...

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, ...

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 ...

*Stepin Fetchit, known as the laziest man in the world, grew from a widely famous character on the big screen of the 1930s to a modern day slur akin to Uncle Tom. But that’s not what actor Lincoln ...

Although he never won an Oscar, Lincoln Perry was America's first black movie star. But for that distinction, Perry paid a heavy price -- he is best known as the character of Stepin Fetchit, a ...