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Colgate has announced a review of its toothpaste brand Darlie, which once featured a smiling White man in blackface ... was sold using the racial epithet Darkie until its name was changed in ...
Colgate purchased 50% of the toothpaste brand, originally named Darkie, for $50 million in 1985 ... Darlie’s name and logo—which once featured a smiling man in blackface—continue to draw ...
Some readers may be familiar with “Darlie,” a toothpaste brand popular in parts of Asia, which features a smiling black minstrel in a top hat as the logo. It used to be called “Darkie”; at ...
Colgate said June 18 that it would “review and evolve” top-selling Chinese toothpaste brand Darlie, which once featured a smiling man in blackface and whose name (originally Darkie ...
It’s a remnant of a time not too long ago when Darlie was known in English as Darkie, and the Darlie Man was a grinning blackface minstrel. Kelley Loper, director of the University of Hong Kong ...
The song off the former Tunnel Rats hip-hop collective member’s fifth solo album Crooked, “Darkie” is a politically-driven, masterfully-written analysis of cultural beauty standards.
Fighting to End 'Darkie Day' in Cornwall, England Matt Pengelly of the BBC reports on a festival called "Darkie Day" in Cornwall, England. It's a centuries-old tradition in which townspeople dress ...