Blackface Coverage

Cumberland school officials investigating after photo of students in blackface posted online

Cumberland County Schools officials said Tuesday that they are investigating after a photo of two students in blackface was posted on social media.

Nooses and blackface: Halloween decorations prompt backlash

NEW YORK -- Depictions of children hanging from nooses were displayed across the street from an elementary school in Brooklyn. An empty noose swung from a home on Long Island. And in Rockland County, New York, three black pumpkins with white eyes, noses and mouths sat on the steps of a small law firm.

Azi Paybarah, New York Times

BRENT STAPLES: How blackface feeds white supremacy

Monday, April 1, 2019 -- The blackface photographs that in January led newly installed Florida Secretary of State Michael Ertel, to resign -- and a similar picture discovered on the medical school yearbook page of Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia -- represent a more troubling aspect of this history. They illustrate how young white men who were destined for careers that gave them profound influence on the lives of African-Americans continued to privately embrace racist caricature long after it became unacceptable to do so in the open.