Virginia’s governor has managed to step in it big time with spasmodic apologies, denials, retractions, and pin-balling responses to a photo on his medical school yearbook page. The photo depicts someone in blackface standing next to someone in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood. In any day and time,...
Blackface Scandal Spotlights Deeply Embedded Racism in US
When Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam refused to resign last week, he did so in the shadow of a Capitol built by a founding father and a slave owner, in the former seat of the Confederacy still wrestling with what to do about statues that honor those who fought to preserve...
NBC Cancels Megyn Kelly's Show After Blackface Controversy
NEW YORK — Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News Channel personality who made a rocky transition to softer morning news at NBC, has been ousted from her "Today" program after her controversial on-air comments about blackface. '"Megyn Kelly Today' is not returning," NBC News said in a statement Friday. The...
Megyn Kelly Remains Absent From Show, NBC Future in Doubt
NEW YORK — Megyn Kelly remains absent from her NBC morning show while the company acknowledged on the "Today" show that her future with the network is in doubt. A report Friday on the "Today" show cited a source familiar with the situation as saying NBC News and Kelly are...