racist ads
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South African Stores Toss TRESemmé Hair Products After Racist Ad Causes Massive Protest Campaign
South African shops are pulling TRESemmé products off their shelves after widespread protests over an online ad denigrating Black hair. The ad, which was shown on the chain pharmacy Clicks’ website, showed four separate images of hair. The first two featured Black women, labeling their hair “frizzy and dull” and “dry and damaged.” The images…
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Racism May Be Dolce & Gabbana's Demise. What Took So Long?
How many instances of bias or cultural insensitivity does it take for a fashion label to be called to account for its racism? Dolce & Gabbana is finally finding out after a series of campaign ads peddling in cultural stereotypes, followed by racist comments, have rightfully drawn the ire of the Chinese and the fashion…
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A Closetful of Bad Decisions: Why H&M’s Misstep Is More Than a Poor Marketing Choice
Maybe we should’ve added “racist marketing at the expense of African Americans” to our list of things to leave in 2017, because H&M kicked off the new year by inciting mass rage Sunday, when an image on its website featured an African-American child model in a sweatshirt labeled “Coolest Monkey in the Jungle.” You would…
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Why Is the Only Brown Corn Pop the Janitor? Kellogg’s Called Out for Racist Cereal Box
First it was Shea Moisture. Then Pepsi. Then Dove. And now my son’s beloved Corn Pops have shit the proverbial race bed. Bad ads! Kellogg’s, which makes the tasty cereal, says it will make over its cereal boxes after an astute consumer pointed out that of all the cartoon corn pops populating a retail mall…
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Dove Apologizes for Hella Racist Ad, but How Did It Even Get Into the Public Space to Begin With?
This is why diversity in the workplace is so important. And I’m not just talking about token diversity. I’m talking about diversity where the opinions of people of color actually matter, because this whole idea should have been burned at its very inception. We’ve all heard the news by now. Over the weekend, Dove—the skin-care…