Chinese State TV’s Lunar New Year Program Features Blackface
It included dancers in African-style costumes and dark face makeup beating drums.
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Beijing (AP) -- Chinese state TV included dancers in blackface portraying Africans in a holiday gala for the second time in three years, prompting criticism online, as Asia welcomed the Year of the Ox with muted festivities amid travel curbs to contain renewed coronavirus outbreaks.