News From A Colorful Perspective
The show “This Close” is set to open its second season. It begins as one of the main characters, who is deaf, is rushed to the hospital. The episode invites the audience into the frustrating world of a deaf person trying to get his or her point across in a…
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is the most recent high-ranking government official to be outed for wearing blackface in the past. While at Auburn University, she wore coveralls and had “black paint all over her face” while pretending to search for used cigars on the ground in a skit at the…
The Eastern Carver County Schools district, and Chaska High School in particular, can’t seem to get it right. There have been multiple accounts of white students in blackface in the yearbook, at football games and on social media, as well as white students threatening the lives of anyone who attended…
After several months of investigating, it could not be “conclusively” determined that a racist photo on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook page was him. The photo, which first surfaced in February, was of two people – one dressed in a Ku Klux Klan robe and…
Doane University library director at its main campus in Nebraska decided to display photos showing students in blackface. The president is apologizing, meanwhile, a faculty group actually supports the decision to show the photos. “It has been brought to my attention that there was a display outside of our library in the…
A Snapchat video went viral over the weekend showing male teenagers who attend Homewood-Flossmoor High School, in the Chicago metropolitan area, wearing blackface, shouting profanities while driving, and harassing a female cashier at a McDonald’s by making disparaging remarks about Black girls. One of the boy’s mothers tried to defend…
Despite calls for his resignation, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) remains in office, following the revelation of a photo on his medical school yearbook page of a man in blackface and another man dressed in a KKK costume. In less than a week, another Virginia official is coming forward to…
The photo on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook page of a man in blackface and another man dressed in a KKK costume is sparking a national conversation. The racist act of wearing blackface goes back to the mid-19th century. It’s 2019 and Black people still have to explain…
CNN host Don Lemon is calling the switch of Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s stories something straight out of President Trump’s playbook. Lemon referred to Trump’s apology for his “grab ’em by the p***y” comments, and then his later dismissal of it as “locker room talk,” as a prime example. Northam,…
I am the same age as Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. As he was selecting pictures for his medical school yearbook page, I was flying helicopters for the United States Navy. I’m not sure about blackface in Virginia in 1984. I do know I attended flight school not long after, geographically…
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