Half black actress Zoe Saldana, who is playing the role of late singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone in an upcoming biopic, is being criticized for donning “blackface” in a new trailer for the movie.
According to a report from Fox16, some students at Arkansas Tech, a university in Russellville, AR, are upset with a fellow student for dressing up in what they deem an offensive costume for a Halloween costume party. The photo shows a sorority
A teenage Floridan who angered Internet users for donning blackface with a Nicki Minaj Halloween costume is being joined by an Alabama school teacher, who also painted up to appear as rapper Kanye West.
Star Trek celebrity and gay marriage activist George Takei told a Phoenix news station Monday that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is a “clown in blackface.” Takei was referring to Thomas’s recent dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges, the 5-4 decision in which the Supreme Court found that there is a “fundamental” right to same-sex marriage in the Constitution. “He is a clown in black face sitting on the Supreme Court. He gets me that angry. He doesn’t belong there,” Takei said.
Last December, the biblically inspired Christian Bale film Exodus: Gods and Kings opened to boycotts for using white actors to play North African and Hebrew characters.
While the act of painting one’s face black for the purposes of entertainment is outdated and considered a cultural impropriety, the world of fashion is condemning one of its own this week for the practice at a major event.
