Black U.K. beauty magazine accidentally put a white model on its cover. Apologies followed.Posted in Articles, Arts, Media Archive, Passing, United Kingdom on 2016-11-24 01:28Z by Steven |
Black U.K. beauty magazine accidentally put a white model on its cover. Apologies followed.
The Washington Post
2016-11-22
Travis M. Andrews, Staff Writer
Emily Bador is a white woman. She is not, therefore, a black woman. Normally, that wouldn’t be news worth reporting, mostly because it isn’t news.
But her race came into play recently due to the new cover of Blackhair magazine, a British glossy that bills itself as “an international bi-monthly magazine for the style conscious black woman. Packed with 100’s of hair inspirations, fashion, lifestyle and celebrity interviews, we are one of the leading publications for women of colour in Europe.”
The magazine, which generally if not always features black or mixed-race models, used her photograph for the cover of its December/January issue. The editors have admitted they didn’t know she was white…
…According to Blackhair’s editor, Keysha Davis, who wrote a note on the magazine’s Facebook page, the publication runs photographs they receive from PR companies and salons. They specifically request that these photographs be of black or mixed-race women…
Read the entire article here.