Sentences with phrase «blackface on»

In a case that made national headlines, Walters and two others were initially suspended after riding in blackface on a float adorned with buckets of fried chicken and watermelons and labeled «Black to the Future: Broad Channel 2098.»

Not exact matches

A singer, in blackface, then performs «Swanee» on stage while the loving couple sings along.

Yesterday, when Jane Hamsher of firedoglake posted a picture on Huffington Post of Joe Lieberman photoshopped into wearing blackface, she was trying to make a point about what she sees as his hypocritical attempts to reach out to black voters.

Last week, for instance, Joe Lieberman called on his Democratic primary opponent, Ned Lamont, to denounce one of his supporters who posted on the HuffingtonPost a doctored picture of the Connecticut senator in blackface.

In his statement on the costume, Mr. Camara described it as «insensitive,» compared it to the «blackface minstrel show» and demanded an apology.

Extra features on this non-SE include: a comprehensive commentary by director Hoblit and co-screenwriter Billy Ray, with the occasional comment from Bruce Willis sandwiched in; another yak - track from producer David Foster, who concentrates on the film's background in WWII history; ten deleted scenes (in 16x9) that reveal that an even more structurally and politically complex film lies on the cutting room floor, with elective commentary from Ray and Hoblit — they're especially sorry to see go, as am I, a bit in which the American soldiers entertain their German captors by donning blackface; a 4 - part photo gallery — see Bruce make serious expressions for «The Poster Shoot»; and trailers for Hart's War, Windtalkers, and the TV shows «Jeremiah» and «Stargate SG - 1».

Using high - quality film stills and boxed sections focusing on major themes and personalities, Lace takes the reader through the early blackface actors, the servant roles so prevalent in Depression - era cinema, the broadened awareness of African Americans following WWII, the blaxploitation films of the 1960s, and the impact of Spike Lee's 1989 film, Do the Right Thing.

She doesn't have her glasses on the first time she watches it so is startled when she realizes that Astaire performs a solo dance referred to as the «Bojangles of Harlem» in blackface.

If someone makes a decent 2D platformer where you play as Mario who runs around with his dick out and jumps on blackface goombas... it's really a moot point if the game was completely free on a free site.

Finally, Edgar Arceneaux was profiled on Season 8 of ART21 and during the documentary, he explained his interest in a controversial performance by Broadway veteran Ben Vereen in which he appeared in blackface at President Ronald Reagan's 1981 inaugural celebration.

What the text does not mention as alarming is that a white artist's variation of blackface, even on a wax replica, is no show of racial solidarity.

In one telling scene, the New York artist is shown wearing blackface while chatting amiably with an older gent on a park bench in the Sixième.

In the exhibition Bootleg Baby, content - rich icons such as Moors, Black Power figures, consumer logos, blackface children, cheap signage, graffiti, and celebrities are layered one upon another in paintings that are stacked and hinged on the walls as charms.

Perhaps paradoxically, she often achieves this through unabashedly excessive detail, like in One Day and Back Then (Standing), where her character stands in a field of sea reeds in blackface, looking out at us, wearing all black (including stiletto boots), ready for a night out on the town.

At this event, Vereen, who had recently won a Tony Award for his performance in Pippin, staged a musical number in homage to the trailblazing vaudeville performer Bert Williams, who, because of racist laws dictating who could appear on stage, always performed in blackface.

Vereen controversially appeared in blackface, and, due to the racially charged nature of the performance, it was never aired on television.

Faisal Kutty mentions a lecture on Muslim «blackface» in Orientalism by Dr. Ariel Salzmann, on «the use of denigrating Muslim stereotypes in quotidian Western European culture.»

* According to the results of an investigation by a law firm hired by the University of Oregon, law professor Nancy Shurtz committed «discriminatory harassment» by wearing a blackface costume on Halloween, in violation of the school's anti-discrimination policies.

I'm a little late to the Nic Naitanui «blackface» debate, but it's been playing on my mind for days, so I need to get it off my chest.

was part of the witty banter), or «Mind Your Language» these days because they're recognised as being on the nose, we should be reaching that point with blackface.