Blackface

WATCH: Ashton Kutcher Ad Yanked After Complaints Of Racism

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 05.04.2012

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A new "viral campaign" (read: advertisement) for Pop Chips that features Ashton Kutcher impersonating a "Bollywood producer" who's "looking for the mo...

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Little Billy Blackface: The Academy Awards and the Reestablishment of the Social Order

Javon Johnson | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Blackface Minstrelsy, Oscars, Billy Crystal, Black, Race, Academy Awards, Blackface, Pop Culture, Black Voices News

A couple weekends back, the Academy Awards, since its inception in 1929, awarded just its 14th Black Oscar winner in an acting category. Octavia Spenc...

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Ty Almost Quits 'The Challenge' After Emily Pulls Blackface Prank

Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: The Challenge Battle of the Exes, TV Canada, Reality TV, Canada Tv, Video, The Real World, Mtv, Racism, Tv Replay, Road Rules, Blackface, TV News

"The Challenge: Battle Of The Exes" (Wed., 10 p.m. EST on MTV) marked the third time Emily and Ty have appeared on a reality show together. They fi...

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PHOTOS: Lie Sang Bong's Fall 2012 Show Features Brown Face Paint

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 03.07.2012

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On the last day of Paris Fashion Week, as most editors packed up their bags and took that one last swig of champagne, Korean designer Lie Sang Bong pr...

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German Play Sparks Controversy With Actor In Blackface

bbc.co.uk | Posted 01.10.2012

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A German play has sparked controversy by making a move characteristic of theatre's painful past. Berlin's Schlosspark Theatre features a white act...

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Breaking the Taboos of Blackface Minstrelsy

Jane Chafin | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Black Like You, Photography, Art, John Strausbaugh, Blackface, Blackface-Minstrelsy, Arts News

When I first visited artist Mark Steven Greenfield's studio a few years ago I felt as if I'd been dropped into a mine field loaded with taboo, political correctness, and liberal guilt.

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Detritus, Doo-Dahz and other Delights: This Artweek.LA (May 9-15)

Bill Bush | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Cherry and Martin, Assemblage, Mark Steven Greenfield, Lizzy Waronker, Stereotype, Tobias Keene, Britweek, Blackface, Arts News

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Is Black Face Paint At Football Games Racist?

Boulder Daily Camera | Brittany Anas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CU Football, CU Boulder, Black Face Paint, University of Colorado, Blackface, Denver News

University of Colorado faculty leaders may consider whether the use of black face paint at sporting events is school spirit or racially insensitive an...

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WATCH: Ken Jeong In Blackface On Community

The Huffington Post | Carol Hartsell | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you're going to have a character appear in blackface, you better have a good reason. Or, in the case of last night's episode of "Community," you c...

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Blackface Sparks Controversy At Lehigh

News | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two white male students, who attended what appears to be an off-campus Halloween weekend party, blackened their faces and arms while wearing tennis cl...

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NU Students Warned: Blackface For Halloween Is A Terrible Idea

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Northwestern University Blackface, Halloween Costumes, Northwestern Blackface, Racism, Northwestern Halloween, Racist Halloween Costumes, Northwestern University, Blackface, Chicago News

Last year, two white students at Northwestern University caused outrage throughout the Evanston campus after photos of them wearing blackface for Hall...

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MTV's Video Music Awards Make Me Feel 100-Years-Old

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Outside of the awesome Eminem and Mary J. Blige, the room at the Video Music Awards seemed all style and no substance.

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Northwestern Students Don Blackface Halloween Costumes

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two white Northwestern University students are in hot water after photos of them wearing blackface for Halloween surfaced this week on Facebook and sp...

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Harry Connick On Hey Hey: Blackface Peformance Offends Connick

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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An Australian act's blackface impression of The Jackson Five did not impress celebrity judge Harry Connick Jr. The American musician and actor was d...

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'America's Next Top Model' Puts Models In Blackface In Last Night's Episode

Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's never a surprise when Tyra Banks pulls a tacky, over-the-top stunt on America's Next Top Model. But in last night's episode, Tyra crossed the fin...

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Blackface, Eh?: Canada's Racialist Vernacular

Adebe DeRango-Adem | Posted 05.25.2011

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White people painting themselves "Black" for entertainment or shock value actively erases its minstrel roots. Canada's racist history has been buried by making blackface revivals possible.

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The Deep Wounds of Black-Facism

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Spurred by a recent debacle on Australian television program "Hey Hey It's Saturday," black-face people worldwide are stepping forward and demanding they be treated with the respect and equality they deserve.

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I Have a Nightmare

Greg Saunders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Racial Politics, Obama Racism, Racism, Racist, Fiscal Conservativsm, Birthers, Thomas Edison, Rush Limbaugh, Tea Parties, Henry Ford, Blackface, The Bible, Michelle Obama, Nicola Tesla, Matt Drudge, Glenn Beck, Politics News

In the last two years, Republicans have been so angry they've had to invent new ways to be racist. Racism no longer comes in degrees of offensiveness, but in flavors of hate speech.

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PC Whiners Aside, Downey Jr. Deserves His Oscar Nod

John Ridley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tropic Thunder, The Academy Awards, Academy Award Nominees, Oscar Nominations, The Oscars, Blackface, Robert Downey Jr, Oscar Nominees, Entertainment News

On the heels of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announcing the nominees for their 81st shindig, there were the usual nontroversies over who was named and who was ignored.

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Blackface In Goodman Theatre Production Ignites Controversy

Chicago Sun-Times | Hedy Weiss | Posted 05.25.2011

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A play at the Goodman Theatre that features a white actress in blackface is sparking controversy. Late Wednesday afternoon, hours before the opening ...

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Inside Hollywood Jokes Kill Tropic Thunder

Sergio Mims | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hollywood is a place so insular and self-centered that it's convinced that everyone else on the planet is as enraptured as they are about themselves and the going-ons behind the scenes.

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SNL's Non-Black Obama Wears Honeyface, Not Blackface

New York Magazine | Bennett Marcus | Posted 05.25.2011

Lorne Michaels took some heat for picking Venezuelan-Japanese cast member Fred Armisen to play Barack Obama when Saturday Night Live returned to the a...

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