A puppeteer and a leather bar are under fire in Chicago for the puppeteer’s racist performance featuring a Black puppet. Last week, puppeteer Jerry Halliday was booked for an anniversary show at the ...
On Tuesday, puppeteer Jerry Halliday brought out one of his puppets during a show celebrating Touché's 45th anniversary and put on a performance that attendees have called racist and transphobic — and ...
When puppets speak, people listen, says artist, educator and puppeteer Schroeder Cherry. Cherry uses puppet play to teach people about the U.S. African diaspora. Organizers of his new “Spirit of Play: ...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two Black Democratic state legislators are accusing Virginia’s Republican party of racism for sending out flyers with drawings showing them hoisted in the air by handheld strings.