
According to a report from Fox16, some students at Arkansas Tech, a university in Russellville, AR, are upset with a fellow student for dressing up in what they deem an offensive costume for a Halloween costume party. The photo shows a sorority
by Trent Baker30 Oct 2015, 8:41 AM PST0

A teenage Floridan who angered Internet users for donning blackface with a Nicki Minaj Halloween costume is being joined by an Alabama school teacher, who also painted up to appear as rapper Kanye West.
by Kelli Serio28 Oct 2015, 1:13 PM PST0

Star Trek celebrity and gay marriage activist George Takei told a Phoenix news station Monday that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is a “clown in blackface.” Takei was referring to Thomas’s recent dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges, the 5-4 decision in which the Supreme Court found that there is a “fundamental” right to same-sex marriage in the Constitution. “He is a clown in black face sitting on the Supreme Court. He gets me that angry. He doesn’t belong there,” Takei said.
by Joel B. Pollak2 Jul 2015, 8:17 AM PST0

Last December, the biblically inspired Christian Bale film Exodus: Gods and Kings opened to boycotts for using white actors to play North African and Hebrew characters.
by Kipp Jones17 Jun 2015, 9:05 AM PST0

While the act of painting one’s face black for the purposes of entertainment is outdated and considered a cultural impropriety, the world of fashion is condemning one of its own this week for the practice at a major event.
by Kipp Jones27 Feb 2015, 9:23 AM PST0