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February 7, 2020

Prada to Agrees to Promote Diversity Within Company After Blackface Controversy
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Luxury fashion brand Prada will work to better promote diversity and
cultural sensitivity following massive backlash for selling merchandise
that resembled blackface. In 2018, civil rights attorney Chinyere Ezie
uploaded a photo on social media that showed the window display of a New
York City Prada store filled with figurines that she described as
"racist and denigrating blackface imagery." This is her speaking at a
press conference in New York City following news of the historic
settlement Thursday.

Chinyere Ezie: "Our voices, our outrage, our demands for dignified
treatment can and will change the world."



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