Has Black History Month become too corporate?
"It does bother me the way they think they can repackage Woodson, Washington and Du Bois as a product. ... But we've seen this a number of times."
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"It does bother me the way they think they can repackage Woodson, Washington and Du Bois as a product. ... But we've seen this a number of times."
It’s impossible to ignore the dissonance between performative celebrations of Black history and the dismantling of efforts to make corporate America look more like America.
The product mixed up the images and names of Carter G. Woodson, W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington.
Target will no longer sell a kids' educational item after it wrongly IDed Booker T. Washington, Carter G. Woodson, and W.E.B. Du Bois.
The retail corporation will no longer sell the “Civil Rights Magnetic Learning Activity” after it incorrectly identified Booker T. Washington, […] The post Target pulls product that misidentifies Black historical figures appeared first on TheGrio.