General Article Blackness is not a costume

Topic Selected: Challenging Racism
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The President of the University of Birmingham Christian Union, Ben McNeely, was recently caught ‘blacking up’ to fit a ‘Caribbean’ theme for a fancy dress party. BEMA, the Birmingham Ethnic Minorities Association, found the photograph posted on Facebook (it was later deleted by McNeely) and fortu...

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