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Jimmy Fallon Apologizes For Wearing Blackface In ‘Saturday Night Live’ Clip From 2000

Jimmy Fallon Apologizes For Wearing Blackface In ‘Saturday Night Live’ Clip From 2000
Jimmy Fallon apologized after a resurfaced video of him wearing blackface sparked outrage on social media — although it wasn’t the first time the ...
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Marines Under Investigation After Making ‘Blackface’ Video

Marines Under Investigation After Making ‘Blackface’ Video
Two Marines stationed near San Diego are being investigated after posting a video that appears to show them in blackface.   In the footage, two ...
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Virginia’s First Lady Gave Cotton To Black Kids, Asked Them To Imagine Slavery

Virginia’s First Lady Gave Cotton To Black Kids, Asked Them To Imagine Slavery
Virginia’s first lady Pam Northam ― whose husband, Gov. Ralph Northam (D), has seen his grip on his office threatened by charges of racism ― fi...
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Ava DuVernay Joins Prada as the Co-Chair of Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council

Ava DuVernay Joins Prada as the Co-Chair of Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council
Filmmaker, screenwriter, and activist, Ava DuVernay has always been on the frontlines of the fight against oppression, using films like 13th to ad...
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Louisiana Cops Dressed In Blackface In 1993 To Fool Drug Buyers In Black Neighborhoods

Louisiana Cops Dressed In Blackface In 1993 To Fool Drug Buyers In Black Neighborhoods
Two white Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police narcotics investigators wore blackface in 1993 in an undercover operation to sell fake crack cocaine in p...
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6 Books, Movies And Shows Break Down Why Blackface Isn’t Just Offensive, It’s Dangerous

6 Books, Movies And Shows Break Down Why Blackface Isn’t Just Offensive, It’s Dangerous
It’s the year 2019, and blackface is having a moment.   In recent weeks alone, three prominent white male politicians from Virginia ― Gov. Ralph...
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Katy Perry faces criticism over shoe design resembling blackface

Katy Perry faces criticism over shoe design resembling blackface
  First it was Prada. Then Gucci. Now, Katy Perry is being called out for creating fashion that evokes blackface.  The singer's namesake brand fac...
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Spike Lee boycotting Gucci, Prada, following brands' blackface controversies

Spike Lee boycotting Gucci, Prada, following brands' blackface controversies
Oscar-nominated director Spike Lee has said he isn’t going to dress in Gucci or Prada fashions in the wake of the brands’ recent controversies. On...
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Spike Lee On Gov. Ralph Northam, Or Anyone Else, In Blackface: ‘Hell To The Naw’

Spike Lee On Gov. Ralph Northam, Or Anyone Else, In Blackface: ‘Hell To The Naw’
Filmmaker Spike Lee is not giving Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam any free passes for a photo of men in blackface and a Ku Klux Klan uniform on hi...
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Gucci apologizes after social media users say sweater resembles blackface

Gucci apologizes after social media users say sweater resembles blackface
Gucci has apologized and discontinued selling a sweater that social media users said resembles blackface because of its design.  In a Twitter pos...
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Calls For Resignation As Va. Governor Apologizes for Racist Image In 1984 Yearbook

Calls For Resignation As Va. Governor Apologizes for Racist Image In 1984 Yearbook
Ralph Northam's page in the 1984 yearbook of Eastern Virginia Medical School in which two people are wearing blackface and a KKK costume.   Virgin...
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Florida Secretary of State resigns after reveal of blackface photos

Florida Secretary of State resigns after reveal of blackface photos
Florida Secretary of State Michael Ertel resigned Thursday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' office confirmed, on the same day that photos of him in blac...
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