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 ...
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 ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- "A Wonderful World" is a new musical playing on Broadway in Chicago, and the show features impressive dance talent. Master tap dancer DeWitt Fleming Jr. portrays Stepin Fetchit in the ...
While Ali was a civil rights activist whose trash-talking and spoken word poetry evolved the possibilities of what a Black athlete could be, Stepin Fetchit, whose real name was Lincoln Perry, was the ...
In FETCH CLAY, MAKE MAN, when people address Stepin Fetchit, the well-known (if infamous) movie actor of the 1930s, they tend to use his whole name and lace it with a dollop of snide, as if no ...
The name Stepin Fetchit evokes images of an African-American caricature, a lazy, cowering fixture in early films. Watkins, a former New York Times Book Review editor, details the story behind the ...