Blackface

We may be praising Indian-American actress Mindy Kaling for breaking barriers as a woman of color in Hollywood, but it’s her older and estranged brother’s antics that has many shaking their heads. Vijay Chokal-Ingam made headlines last week after he claimed he posed as an African-American man to get into medical school back in 1998 […]

After being hospitalized last week to receive treatment for diabetes, Mumia Abu-Jamal has returned to prison. The 60-year-old, who was convicted of killing a cop in Philadelphia 34 years ago, spent two days in the ICU after passing out. He returned to the State Correctional Institution-Mahanoy on Wednesday. Although he was well enough to return […]

A white mayoral candidate in Oklahoma who performed in drag and blackface as a character named “Pollyester Kotton” is now apologizing for what he categorized as “satire.” Bill Helton, a hair dresser currently serving as Elk City’s commissioner, told KFOR that he meant no harm when he created Kotton (yep, with a K); a character inspired […]

White Man Wears Blackface In Order To Rob Bank, And He’s Not The First To Do It… For the second time in two weeks, a Cedar Rapids bank becomes the target of armed robbery. Police say a man walked into the Guaranty Bank Branch on Jacolyn Drive Northwest around 10 o’clock Monday morning. The robber […]

Podcast Download The New Orleans Recovery School District will soon have converted all of the schools under their jurisdiction over to charter schools. Patrick Dobard, superintendent of the Louisiana Recovery School District and education advocate Karren Harper Royal joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to talk about school choice and the future of the public system in […]

A Michigan teacher was was suspended after conducting a lesson on blackface. Dr. Jelani Cobb and Dr. Amy Yeboh joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to discuss the suspension and attitudes towards blackface in modern America. Be sure to listen to “NewsOne Now” with Roland Martin, weekdays at 7 a.m. EST and watch at 9 a.m. EST on TV One. 

In the year 2014, it takes a special kind of stupid to not know that blackface is offensive, but one Kentucky pastor is claiming just that. Assistant Pastor Joseph Pickens of Clay Mill Road Baptist Church in Lexington painted his face Black to portray the A-Team’s “Mr. T” at his church’s National Young Fundamentalist Conference. “They […]

Haribo is removing blackfaced licorice from production, following customer complaints that the candy was racist in nature, The Local reports. SEE ALSO: Female Inmates Sexually Abused At Ala. Prison The German candy-making company said the candy was designed to represent a captain’s worldwide trip. It was originally sold in their Skipper Mix packets. “I understand the criticism […]

Elle France beauty editor Jeanne Deroo (pictured right) is apologizing for wearing a costume emulating Solange Knowles (pictured) while in blackface, according to the International Business Times. SEE ALSO: Black Town Mayor Racially Abuses Cops After DUI Arrest [VIDEO] Deroo donned the costume, complete with Afro, for a private party late last month. When she […]

Updated: 8:48 P.M. ET, 11/1/13: It has been brought to NewsOne’s attention that the picture above began circulating in April of this year: Why white girls should not be trusted with fake tan pic.twitter.com/577DiyfpEH — harriet (@0mghaat) April 28, 2013 Though the deluge of racist statements below were made by @dopebieber, as well as her […]

You’d think that folks would know by now that donning Blackface in YouTube videos will not go down well, but one fraternity in California clearly didn’t get the memo. RELATED: Will.I.Am Arrives To The MTV Video Music Awards In “Blackface” NBC 4 Los Angeles reports that several members from Lambda Theta Delta, an Asian-American fraternity […]

In something straight from the “this-is-too-foolish-to-be-offensive files,” we take a look at two college girls who had quite the time during a recent homemade spa treatment. SEE ALSO: Papa Joe Jackson Suffers Stroke University of Minnesota Duluth students Rachel Cooper and Jessica Heid (both pictured) decided the dark facial masks they’d put on made them […]