NPR's Robert Siegel talks to author Julia Lee about her book Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals. She chronicles the story of the African-American actors in the films. They were ...

Childhood roles made him famous, but he would go on to live for nearly a century, outliving most of his young co-stars. Jack Hanlon, who starred in at least two of the classic "Our Gang" movies of ...

He didn’t have the biggest parts after the Our Gang series, but he was either in a TV show or film every year until right before he died in 1959. Look at It’s a Wonderful Life.

Our Gang: A Racial History of the Little Rascals by Julia Lee, University of Minnesota Press, 328 pages. Thanks to YouTube, The Little Rascals shorts that were first recorded on silent film in the ...