Sentences with phrase «in blackface»

The cartoonist who drew an image of Clinton in blackface, which was tweeted — and then deleted — by a pastor who is a Trump supporter, is standing by his caricature.

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.

Earlier this year, for a costume party to celebrate Purim, Hikind dressed in blackface.

If you wouldn't cast someone in Blackface, don't bother casting in Transface!

One of the leading actors in the play performs in blackface.

Within a year, Charles Lindbergh would cross the ocean in his monoplane, and a white man in blackface would speak from the screen of a motion picture show.

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

Recently a blogger created a mini-controversy in the Lieberman - Lamont race by a posting picture of Lieberman in blackface.

The councilman blasted the assemblyman over his appearance in blackface at a party in 2013.

Mayor De Blasio donor and admitted briber Jona Rechnitz claims he didn't know it was wrong to attend a party in blackface — because he didn't even know what blackface...

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 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.»

C. Thomas really doesn't look ethnic at all though, he just looks like a guy in blackface.

The house is full of revelers in blackface, eating watermelon and filling their cups from a «Purple Drank» fountain.

He rolls out snapshots (presumably from Facebook posts) of actual students from college campuses posing in blackface and afro wigs.

Val Kilmer appears as a philosopher / animal wrangler, Giovanni Ribisi appears as a pallid rebel gunned down at a bus stop, Ed Harris appears as a ghost in blackface — then there's Chris Penn, Daryl Hannah, Fred Ward, Christian Slater, Cheech Marin, Laura Elena Harring...

Now they share the prospect of being stereotyped by white classmates cavorting around in blackface dressed as pimps and gangstas, and as icons like President Obama and Aunt Jemima.

But is it once again Modernism in blackface?

was a musical art performance piece featuring a band of superman clad musicians with fake bulging muscles in blackface (and redface).

In what was intended as a pointed social satire, Vereen performed the famous show tune «Waiting for Robert E. Lee» in blackface during the first act, then sang the mournful song «Nobody» while removing the blackface during the second.

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.

Thomas read aloud the tag for a Maxwell House ad from the 1920s, where two butlers in blackface serve an immensely satisfied middle - aged white woman coffee.

I just don't think we should paint our kids in blackface if it offends and hurts people.»

For some bizarre reason, I performed ballet to Send in the Clowns, while another girl lip - synced in blackface.

How many times have there been people in blackface in the media being hauled over the coals of late?

Hell, I reckon most people would remember the Hey Hey It's Saturday reaction of Harry Connick Jr, to a Red Faces skit done in blackface.

To add insult to injury, Wilson screened The Birth of a Nation — which glorifies the Ku Klux Klan and portrays actors in blackface, among its other racist offenses — in the White House and subsequently praised the film for being «so terribly true.»

It's very faithful to the original short story, down to its liberal use of the n - word (as it is Russia, the cook character is played by someone in blackface).

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.

In this video a young man in blackface, stylishly attired in tailcoat and bowtie, and a drawing of a piano stool become partners in crime as they carry out the «murder» of a baby grand.

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

The mayor's former big - bucks campaign donor and self - described» friend» Jona Rechnitz once dressed up in blackface, evidence of which could...

Pastor Mark Burns, an African - American supporter of Donald Trump who has been defending the candidate's recent outreach to minority voters in the media, tweeted a cartoon of Hillary Clinton in blackface, mocking her outreach to black voters.

in blackface that was posted by a blogger who has been an influential promoter of challenger Ned Lamont.

The mayor's former big - bucks campaign donor and self - described» friend» Jona Rechnitz once dressed up in blackface, evidence of which could soon be presented at the bribery trial of former union head Norman Seabrook, sources tell The Post.

Well this is just stupidly racist: Numero cast 16 - year - old white model Ondria Hardin in an editorial called «African Queen» and um, «styled» her in blackface for the shoot.

Ending with «Bogey Gocart» in blackface, it truly leaves no stone unturned.

In the first known movie version, from 1903, the aging, potbellied Tom is played by a white actor in blackface, and black actors playing slaves dance merrily at the beginning of each scene.

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.