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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
One aspect WWE would love fans to ignore is its problematic past use of blackface. It has absolutely no place in society, but there's a case to be made to keep it around instead of erasing its ...
The time when Rob McElhenney’s It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia character Mac crossed all boundaries to make money.
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 ...
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 ...
From CCTV’s Celebrate Together skit, in which actress Lou Naiming in blackface and wearing fake buttocks puts on an accent to play an African mother, to the infamous commercial where a black man ...
Paul Vieira covers Canada for The Wall Street Journal, and is based in Ottawa.