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A primary school teacher who accidentally showed a film clip containing blackface to a class of Year 5 pupils has been found ...
blackface. I was stunned, but they just smiled, waved and went on their way. I remember thinking: “Go out like that in downtown Durham and you’ll get shot! How can this be real?” Back in our ...
A primary school teacher who accidentally showed a film clip containing blackface to a class of pupils aged nine to 10 has been found to have behaved inappropriately. Grace Whiley played the video of ...
The clarification comes after Harewood took part in a wide-ranging discussion with The Guardian about becoming the new ...
The time when Rob McElhenney’s It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia character Mac crossed all boundaries to make money.
Before the 1830s, when blackface minstrelsy begins formally, African Americans, people whom we today would call African Americans, have been involved in local entertainment. They are the fiddlers ...
In this interview, Cheryl Thompson, author of ‘Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict and Freedom, ...
Cultural historian and Spacing contributor Cheryl Thompson launches her new book, Canada and the Blackface Atlantic, tonight ...
The Mysterious Girl singer, 52, stars as lead character Gary Buckle in crime-comedy, Jafaican, which is set for release later this year. In the film, Gary is tasked with mastering a Caribbean ...
Most people would say this has aged badly, but has it aged badly enough for people to ‘cancel’ it or stop watching it? The answer is probably no, as many viewers still laud it as a great rom-com and a ...
U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler said he was sorry Thursday after the New York Times obtained photos of him wearing blackface about two decades ago at a college Halloween costume party where he dressed as ...
However, Professor Buckland acknowledges that the actual origin of the Bacup practice is "complicated and now irretrievable" ...