Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up On my radio program recently, I played an episode of the Amos ‘n’ ...

Anyone remember Amos ’n’ Andy? Well you’ve probably heard of it if you haven’t seen or heard it. The popular Depression-era radio show became a 1950s CBS television program, despite vehement protests ...

Over station WMAQ, Chicago, on the night of March 28, 1928, the nation first heard the radio blackface comic strip team of Amos and Andy. Amos (Freeman F. Gosden), the patient and long-suffering one, ...

Newly elected East St. Louis Township Supervisor Alvin Parks has finally morphed into a caricature of himself. As ESL’s mayor he achieved the rarified distinction of being mocked by SNL on national TV ...

A man in Lakeland, Florida has an aluminum record he purchased at a flea market with the words "Amos & Andy" hand-written on its label. At the peak of Amos 'n' Andy's success, 40 million listeners - a ...