He’s still got it. Dick Van Dyke channeled his iconic chimney sweep dance from the 1964 film “Mary Poppins” days before his 98th birthday. In a video shared on Christina Karlin’s Instagram ...

That's according to an Oregon professor who wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times that asserts the 1964 film, "Mary Poppins," promoted blackface in the famous chimney sweep scene.

In the 1943 novel “Mary Poppins Opens the Door”, a maid screams “Don’t touch me, you black heathen,” while later, when the chimney sweep approaches the cook, the maid threatens to quit, ...

Becoming a magical chimney sweep. Actually, it was a very happy film for, I think, the entire company.” For “Mary Poppins,” she scored the Oscar for Best Actress for playing the titular ...

A beloved nanny and her chimney sweep friend Bert will soar across the stage when Hester Junior High School presents Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s “Mary Poppins Jr.,” at 7 p.m. on Feb. 21 ...

Though “Mary Poppins” remains a highly regarded film, it has been criticized for its invocation of blackface when chimney sweeps are seen with soot-blackened faces. It’s partly in this ...

which he claims "associate chimney sweeps' blackened faces with racial caricatures." "'Don't touch me, you black heathen,' a housemaid screams in 'Mary Poppins Opens the Door' (1943), as a sweep ...