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 ...

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 ...

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 ...