Pioneered by Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who wrote and performed in the show, “Amos ’n’ Andy” was rooted firmly in 19th-century Blackface minstrelsy as the two white performers ...

Bettmann/Getty Images; Denver Post via Getty Images It was commissioned in 1938 as a 12,000-square-foot house for radio comedian Charles Correll and was later owned by bestselling author and ...

Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll tied the audience with their incredible storytelling of 10-minute episodes on WGN radio. After two decades, people witnessed the first-ever sitcom on television ...