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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated November 30, 2023
Was it blackface or not? That is the issue in question after a California middle school student at Muirlands Middle School was suspended “for wearing black face paint on his cheeks, chin and under his eyes at a high school football game.” The school claims it “was a mimicking of blackface, or painting one’s face in dark, exaggerated makeup to mock or
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