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Mo’Nique and Steve Harvey‘s highly anticipated sit-down aired on Wednesday. And, just as many of you suspected, things got a little tense. The Academy Award winner appeared on Harvey’s eponymous talk show to discuss her controversial treatment in Hollywood. Mo’Nique has claimed she was blackballed by the industry after she refused to campaign for the […]
Spike Lee is shocked by Liam Neeson‘s confession that he looked to beat up a random black person after he learned that his friend was raped. In an interview on The Andrew Marr Show, Lee said he had no idea why Neeson felt compelled to share that particular story. “What a crazy, bizarre world we […]
Jerry Lorenzo isn’t a fan of Gucci’s recent controversial “Balaclava” sweater, a turtleneck that has a design resembling blackface. The fashion designer spoke with TMZ and said he would “never wear that” item. He then compared the situation to a popular scene from the 1995 film Casino, where a character has to fire a family […]
Michelle Rodriguez has apologized for her comments in defense of Liam Neeson, in which she claimed the actor could not be racist given how he kissed Viola Davis in ‘Widows.’ “To my friends and colleagues and my fans and community: I want to deeply apologize for my recent choice of words and poor use of example,” Rodriguez […]
T.I. and Soulja Boy are encouraging fans to follow in Spike Lee’s footsteps by boycotting Gucci. The Atlanta rapper shared a series of Instagram posts Friday night blasting the Italian label over its recent blackface scandal. As previously reported, Gucci caught heat this week for a black sweater design that evoked racist imagery. The since-discontinued piece was widely criticized for […]
Spike Lee said he will no longer wear Prada or Gucci until the fashion houses “hire some black designers.” The Oscar-nominated director made the announcement via Instagram on Friday in light of the labels’ blackface controversies. Prada received backlash less than two months ago for an accessories collection that featured a dark-colored monkey with bright red, […]
Earlier this week, Virginia’s Attorney General Mark Herring admitted to wearing blackface almost 40 years ago while he was undergrad. “In 1980, when I was a 19-year-old undergraduate in college, some friends suggested we attend a party dressed like rappers we listened to at the time, like Kurtis Blow, and perform a song,” he wrote in […]
Jussie Smollett performed Saturday at West Hollywood’s Troubadour in his first public appearance since being assaulted in Chicago earlier in the week. The Empire star addressed the attack as he held back tears in front of the supportive audience. “The most important thing that I can say is to keep it simple and say thank […]
Virginia governor Ralph Northam, despite his party calling for his resignation, said that he will not step down Saturday and denied being photographed in blackface or in Ku Klux Klan robes in the photo that appeared in his medical school yearbook. Northam, a Democrat, apologized for the photos on Friday, explicitly acknowledging his involvement. However, a day later […]
Bill Maher added another entry to the list of his wildly racist television comments. Maher made a reference to Popeyes chicken during a talk with Congressman Will Hurd, the congressional Republican who represents a district on the U.S.-Mexico border. The remark came during a heated discussion of why Hurd, who is African-American and a former […]
