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Video: Is the VW Super Bowl Ad ‘Blackface With Voices’?

Video: Is the VW Super Bowl Ad ‘Blackface With Voices’?

Nondiverse marketing and ad agency come up with an ad featuring an inanely happy white guy with a Jamaican accent. Is it offensive?

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Asians, Chop Those Vegetables! Women, Serve Those Men! The Baloney Meter Returns!

Asians, Chop Those Vegetables! Women, Serve Those Men! The Baloney Meter Returns!

American Airlines rebranding attempt is a throwback to 1960s era stereotypes. Remember the “Baloney Meter”? It’s back.

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Purposely Inaccurate Billboards Terrorize Poor Blacks & Latinos

Purposely Inaccurate Billboards Terrorize Poor Blacks & Latinos

This swing state’s politicians have a new way to suppress voter rights.

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3 Ways to Avoid Racist Ads Like Ashton Kutcher’s for Popchips

3 Ways to Avoid Racist Ads Like Ashton Kutcher’s for Popchips

Diversity management is the key to preventing multicultural missteps like this week’s fiasco—a video of Ashton Kutcher in “brown face” portraying an Indian as part of an ad campaign to sell Popchips.

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Lowe’s Muslim Publicity Gaffe Serves as Case Study of What Not to Do

Lowe’s Muslim Publicity Gaffe Serves as Case Study of What Not to Do

Lowe’s publicity nightmare continues after being the only major advertiser to pull its advertising from TLC’s “All-American Muslim” reality show.

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Should I Quit? My Boss Wants to Exclude Blacks From Ads

Should I Quit? My Boss Wants to Exclude Blacks From Ads

If the president of your company told you not to include African Americans in advertising, would you quit? Here’s what the White Guy advises.

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