Actor Dan Aykroyd has revealed that his “Trading Places” co-star Eddie Murphy didn’t object to the movie’s blackface scene in which Aykroyd’s character donned dark face paint and a rasta wig, while feigning a Jamaican accent.
The Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS) published a video on its official Weibo page, the largest regime-controlled social media site in China, featuring Chinese dancers in brown face paint and turbans pretending to be Indian.
White people posting memes featuring black people may be guilty of “digital blackface,” according to a CNN senior writer who warned against the phenomenon, which he describes as one of the “most insidious forms of contemporary racism.”
Tom Cruise planned to attend the Oscars until he learned Judd Apatow was helping Jimmy “Ratings Poison” Kimmel write the monologue.
A black man says he was manhandled and removed from a February 4 Sarah Silverman concert for wearing blackface.
“The Bachelor” contestant Greer Blitzer found herself under fire and forced to apologize for defending her friend’s blackface costume in resurfaced social media posts.
Cape Town’s annual minstrel carnival resumed Monday after a three-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, with large musical troupes — many in blackface — parading through the center of the city.
After driving the Oscars (and Emmys) to record-low ratings, the Academy has chosen to troll America by rehiring Jimmy Kimmel.
A French restaurant manager was subjected to death threats after a woman in blackface appeared in an online video dancing on the terrace of his establishment last week. The manager of a restaurant in the city of Poitiers filed a complaint
Two so-called diversity activists in Arizona falsely accused a black man of wearing blackface.
Candice Bergen, elected on Wednesday to replace the ousted Erin O’Toole as interim leader of the Canadian Conservative caucus, came out swinging in her debut House of Commons appearance by blasting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for refusing to extend an “olive branch” to Freedom Convoy demonstrators. Bergen began the week by sneering at Trudeau for wearing blackface “more times than he can remember” and demanding he apologize for slandering the demonstrators as racists.
Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine (VA) backtracked on his call for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) to resign over his blackface scandal, telling the Washington Post he is “glad he didn’t listen to me.”
Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe dismissed Governor Ralph Northam’s racist blackface yearbook photos as “a dumb mistake 40 years ago,” after publicly condemning them as “racist, unacceptable, and inexcusable at any age.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been embroiled in another blackface scandal ahead of Monday’s parliamentary elections.
Former “Dancing with the Stars” star Julianne Hough apologized for her 2013 Halloween costume — which included blackface — while addressing backlash over CBS new woke show, “The Activist.”
Former Virginia Democrat Gov. Douglas Wilder lit up former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), current candidate for governor, and current Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) in a Facebook post Tuesday saying, “The People Deserve Answers” from them.
The non-profit organization Slow Factory Foundation is warning white people that they are engaging in a phenomenon known as “digital blackface” by posting memes that feature black people in them.
Two students are suing St. Francis High School in Mountain View, California, alleging that administrators confused their green acne facial treatments with “blackface,” and then forced them out of the school. The lawsuit claims that even after the school’s administrators were informed of the truth, they “continued to defame and scapegoat” the students.
Chinese broadcaster CCTV opened its annual four-hour-long Lunar New Year variety show Friday with a “multicultural” dance performance featuring ethnically Han Chinese performers in black skin paint pretending to be African. The use of blackface prompted global ire, as it was not the first instance of it appearing in the program.
Under the order of Democrat Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was removed from the U.S. Capitol.
An advertisement for a credit card company in Hong Kong has drawn criticism on social media for referencing a popular Internet meme yet featuring a man wearing blackface.
In a surprising accusation from a major Hollywood figure, comedian Chris Rock is holding Democrats responsible for the spread of the coronavirus, saying party leaders “let the pandemic come in” while they were busy pushing the ultimately unsuccessful impeachment of President Donald Trump.
Rocker David Byrne is apologizing for wearing blackface in a Talking Heads promotional video released back in 1984.
After being accused of blackface, actress Alyssa Milano insists that she was instead doing “tanface” for a 2013 parody of “Jersey Shore” star Snooki.
The production company Lionsgate rejected calls on Wednesday to remove a Mad Men episode from the AMC streaming service on the grounds that characters are seen wearing blackface, despite other shows choosing to do in the wake of the Black Lives Matter riots.
A 1988 episode of the classic TV show “The Golden Girls” has been banned from Hulu. The episode involves a gag in which the girls put on mud masks and are mistaken for wearing blackface.
Hollywood and social justice warriors have established a new Woke standard. Now the question remains: will Hollywood purge its own ranks of all actors, directors, producers, agents, managers, film crews, photographers, and hair and makeup artists who have ever worked on a film or TV show that employed racist blackface portrayals?
Jerry Falwell Jr. mocked Gov. Ralph Northam’s (D-VA) racism and now it’s Falwell who’s being accused of racism.
ABC’s late-night host Jimmy Kimmel has issued an apology for performing in blackface nearly two decades ago while appearing on Comedy Central’s The Man Show in which he impersonated black NBA star Karl Malone.
NBCUniversal is removing four “30 Rock” episodes that feature characters in blackface from streaming services and syndication. The episodes will also vanish from iTunes and Google Play and other platforms.
Now that we know that Hollywood sees blackface — all blackface, regardless of intent — as racist, we can only assume Hollywood lauded “Tropic Thunder” with all those accolades with racist intent — to humiliate black people.
There’s a so-called “blackface scandal” in America, but have you noticed that pretty much everyone caught in blackface is a Democrat or a Trump-hating celebrity?
Rather than work it out like adults, everyone, including the Washington Post, publicly drops nukes on everyone else so they can offer up scalps as tokens of featly to the Woke Taliban.
Radio host Howard Stern has released a lengthy statement in response to the resurfacing of a video of him wearing blackface and using the N-word, admitting that the stuff he did in his younger years was “f**king crazy.”
Radio host Howard Stern has become the latest celebrity to come under fire after video clip emerged of him in blackface and repeatedly using the N-word, despite the fact that he had previously denied doing so.
Social media “influencers” are now wearing blackface in an attempt to “show solidarity” with the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of the death of George Floyd, as nationwide protests and riots across the country.
In both cases, the programmes were only recently created, being first broadcast between 17 and 10 years ago.
Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) affirmed his support of protesters who have flocked to the streets demanding racial justice, despite a controversial past stained by last year’s blackface scandal.
Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx defended Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday from complaints that he appeared in “blackface” in a Saturday Night Live sketch in 2000, saying Fallon was doing a Chris Rock impression.
Comedian and performer Jimmy Fallon, host of NBC’s The Tonight Show, became the target of criticism Tuesday after video of him performing in blackface in a Saturday Night Live sketch in 2000 resurfaced, going viral on social media.
