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Blackface-coded Halloween costumes can't survive a same-day news cycle

NPR, Aug 26 · read the original

Target pulled a children's costume evoking minstrel-show caricatures after social media backlash, and its stock dropped as much as five percent, a swift financial consequence for a mistake the industry keeps repeating.

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