This year we saw multiple publications and television shows paint white models in brown paint for feature fashion spreads. America’s Next Top Model even took a plunge into the blackface craze by having models pose as other races. Then also Rihanna’s spread in Italian Vogue border-lined on controversial because they definitely darkened her skin and put some sambo style make up on her. Is blackface becoming the new “it” thing? Should someone be standing up to these shenanigans and cry out for it to stop? Tell us what you think of “The Year of Blackface”
