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 ...

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 ...

Film's first African-American star so perfected his comically lazy character that it became a widely offensive stereotype that halted his career. But Stepin Fetchit reemerged at the height of the ...

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 ...