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Mondale Robinson is the founder of the Black Male Voter Project, an organization that uses non-traditional approaches to reach Black men. Robinson is a graduate of Livingstone College, where he received his bachelor’s degree in political science along with a concentration in African and Latin American politics. He is passionate about the expansion of democracy…

Jada Pinkett Smith gathered disgraced YouTube superstar Shane Dawson for an old video where he flagrantly sexualized the actress’ daughter, Willow, when she was a preteen. He is also being pilloried for past instances of using Blackface and the N-word in many of his videos. Dawson, 31, spent 20 minutes apologizing to his 23 million…

The heat beneath comedian and late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has been turned up after he chose to go on vacation instead of apologizing for wearing blackface and saying the N-word in the 1990s. A cacophony of cries calling for ABC to fire the host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” began after it was uncovered…

Reflecting on this White psychology and their obsession with having to don blackface. But don’t get me wrong. From the 1840s creation of the minstrel show, born out of “massa” having his enslaved property perform for his entertainment, I get. I get White folks’ need to demean and see Blacks as ignorant, stupid and as…

Police are searching for a White man who reportedly wore blackface while robbing a bank. The incident occurred at a PNC Bank in Perryville, Maryland, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, according to the Baltimore Sun. Police say the unidentified bank robber, who is a White male, was wearing a white coat and maroon hat and covered…

A White teacher from Milpitas, California who impersonated rapper and activist Common is currently on leave for an undisclosed period of time. The teacher, David Carter, is now admitting he made a “horrible mistake,” but previously had no reservations when placing dark paint on his face to imitate the Chicago-bred artist for Halloween. “I would…

Another White politician has admitted to wearing blackface. Alabama’s Gov. Kay Ivey finally apologized six months after a photo of her wearing blackface in college emerged. In the mid-1960s, Ivey attended Auburn University and participated in a skit called “Cigar Butts” where she wore blackface while crawling on the floor looking for cigar butts. A…

A Hawaiian man who’d been sentenced to life in prison for stabbing three people during a road rage incident tried to make a sociopolitical statement by wearing blackface, Hawaii News Now reports. Mark Char of Oahu, Hawaii, believes that he is being treated unfairly by the American judicial system, and therefore being treated as if…

Homewood-Flossmoor High School students staged a walkout on April 30, 2019, where they protested the lack of action taken against the three White students who paraded around the city in blackface, insulted a young Black woman at her job and shared footage on social media that eventually went viral. The students were spirited and well…

On April 27, 2019, three White students from Homewood-Flossmoor (H-F) High School were seen parading around town in blackface. They shared their antics via social media, along with a video of them harassing a Black girl at a local McDonald’s. Homewood-Flossmoor was in the news in 2018 for sending a letter out to a select…

The racist ways of a White cop was exposed after a photo emerged of him in blackface. The cop, Marcus Collins, served as a police officer at the University of Missouri, according to New York Post. While dressed in blackface, Collins took a selfie of himself. In the photo, Collins is wearing sun glasses, a…

All-time boxing champ Floyd Mayweather had to duck on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, after he was pummeled with insults from celebrities and pop culture fans alike for defiantly — and some say bombastically — supporting Gucci despite the recent uproar over a sweater in its clothing line that resembles blackface. Now that he’s recovered from the…

Add another big name — and a very loud one at that — to the growing list of celebrities who are joining the boycott of Gucci clothes. Rap provocateur 50 Cent, who is famously petty, joined the likes of rapper T.I. and movie director Spike Lee in banishing the famous Italian fashion company from their…

After getting their hides peeled by high-profile critics for the past week, elite Italian fashion designer Gucci, finally broke its silence on the expensive sweater line that resembles blackface. Gucci’s creative director claims that the $900 sweater was meant to pay homage to a deceased entertainment icon and was not intended to resemble blackface or…

Gucci, perhaps one of the most recognizable names in high fashion, is in desperate damage control mode after a disastrous fail during Black History Month. At issue is a pullover sweater that features a cut out for the mouth with big red lips, making the wearer appear in blackface. However, when the images hit social…

Rapper and reality star Waka Flocka dives deeper into the depths of the righteous indignation Blacks feel about the Prada and Gucci blackface scandal erupting this past week. Keep in mind, the Atlanta-based MC is well aware that older white people, at the highest levels of these clothing companies, are signing off on and endorsing…

T.I., Spike Lee and Soulja Boy have all called for the Black community to boycott Gucci following the clothing brand’s blackface controversy. The company faced criticism after selling a sweater that made the wearer appear to be in blackface. The company issued an apology, which T.I. chose to quickly reject. “As a seven figure a…

“The View” co-host Joy Behar is the latest high-profile person to be swept up in the surging “blackface” typhoon. Many conservatives are seeing red because Behar still has a job after she was shown wearing dark makeup to resemble an African queen during a Halloween celebration in the 1970s. The toxic blackface topic has landed…

So far, 2019 has produced a plethora of negative imagery of racial animus across the United States. From a protest held in Washington, D.C., to images of prominent government officials wearing blackface. It would seem that companies would be cognizant of this fact and keep a wary eye out for issues. Apparently, all that failed…

There was a surprise in store for elementary students at Victory Christian School in Carmichael, California, during a school presentation. The students were about to learn about missionary work in Africa and the speaker dressed in traditional African garb. But when she took the stage, she caused outrage from students and later parents because she…