Is it offensive — dare we say, appropriation? — for white people to share memes of Black people?

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Naomi Campbell has come to Gucci’s defense after the Italian fashion label sparked outrage by selling a $890 sweater that resembled blackface. “I think it’s ridiculous for people to say they were burning their [Gucci] clothes. Don’t burn your clothes. It wasn’t intentional,” Campbell told The Washington Post. “On a positive note, there’s a silver lining,” she added, noting […]

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — White police officers in a Washington, D.C., suburb have used racist slurs, circulated text messages expressing a desire to “reinstitute lynching” and put a black face and Afro wig on a training dummy, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. Civil rights groups sued Maryland’s Prince George’s County and its […]

An Australian Rules Football (AFL) club had to apologize after three of its players wore full-body blackface to impersonate Venus and Serena Williams, as well as a Kenyan-born AFL player, Aliir Aliir. The photos were taken last week during “Mad Monday,” a celebratory day that marks the end of the AFL season. According to the Huffington […]

When will people learn that dressing in blackface is not a joke? A white professor at Purdue University has not been fired, after posting a photo of herself and a friend in blackface. Lisa Stillman, a professor in the biology department, posted the photo to her Facebook page in 2016. In the photo Stillman and a […]

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DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — Universities are urging students in search of an attention-grabbing costume this Halloween to pass on sombreros, Native American headdresses, and blackface. Those are some of the costumes grabbing the attention of university administrators who are increasingly concerned that certain costumes are becoming flashpoints in campus debates over race and culture. While […]

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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Five members of the women’s soccer team at a private Christian university in Washington state were suspended for one match Wednesday after a social media post surfaced showing them dressed in blackface and afro wigs. Whitworth University, a liberal arts school in Spokane, said in a statement the players were suspended […]

Uh oh. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. has started something. The boxing pro has found love in again, and this time it’s in the form of Bad Medina. We have no clue how long the two have been together, but according to Floyd, the blonde beauty has been in his life for at least five years. So […]

“Dancing With The Stars” alum, Julianne Hough caught heat for wearing black face in an attempt to dress up like Crazy Eyes from the series…