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Black Influencers Drag Youthforia’s Latest Foundation Shade, Calling It ‘Minstrel Show Black’
A Beauty Influencer called the foundation ‘Black Face.”
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WTF?! Billy Dee Williams Is About to Piss Everyone Off With These Blackface Comments
The legendary actor has been doing a round of outspoken interviews since the release of his memoir in February, but these comments might get him in trouble.
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Students, NAACP File Federal Civil Rights Complaint Against University of Texas at Austin Over Racist Fight Song, Allege ‘Hostile Environment’
Students at UT-Austin continue their fight to get rid of the school’s controversial spirit song ‘The Eyes of Texas.’
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Masked Man Pulls Out Gun During Zoom Lecture About Racism Within 'Eyes of Texas' Song
In recent months, there has been growing controversy surrounding the kinda, sorta, totally racist school song of the University of Texas. A student-led Zoom lecture at the University of Texas at Austin was interrupted when a masked man began loading a gun on camera. NBC News reports that Alberto Martinez, a history professor who believes…
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Cream of Wheat Joins Quaker Oats and Mars in Reviewing Packaging Due to Racist Imagery
Somewhere I imagine there is a man at his computer utterly livid at the fact that Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben have changed their brands due to perpetuating racist imagery. That man is going to be big mad at the news Cream of Wheat has joined those brands in reevaluating its packaging. Rolling Stone reports…
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Hard Pass: Jeremy Saville's Loqueesha Panned as Modern-Day Minstrel 'Comedy'
On Friday, social media let out a collective ‘wtf??’ after a trailer for an upcoming movie went viral: a white bartender disguises his voice as a stereotypical black woman’s to get the radio host job he couldn’t as a white man. They named the movie Loqueesha and I wish I was making this shit up…
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Today Addresses Megyn Kelly's Blackface Comments; Kelly Tearfully Apologizes
It had to be an awkward morning around the Today Show studios in New York City, as cast and crew struggled with how to address the white elephant in the room, Megyn Kelly. Kelly’s deeply troubling comments on her Tuesday morning show, which seemed to defend the use of blackface in Halloween costumes, sparked outrage…
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Before Ye, Trump Had Man in Oval Office Who Threatened and Called Obama a ‘Mongrel’
Before we move on from the Kanye West spectacle in the White House Thursday, let us not forget that one of the stars of the Republican Party is a man named Ted Nugent, who was once primarily known as a rocker—long before most of us were alive. Now, he’s mostly known as a high-profile member…