{"id":50115,"date":"2016-11-23T02:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T02:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50115"},"modified":"2016-11-23T13:57:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T13:57:34","slug":"white-model-apologizes-after-her-photo-shows-up-on-blackhair-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50115","title":{"rendered":"White Model Apologizes After Her Photo Shows Up On Blackhair Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

White Model Apologizes After Her Photo Shows Up On <\/strong><\/em>Blackhair<\/strong> Magazine<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Huffington Post<\/a>
\n2016-11-21<\/p>\n

Zeba Blay<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m very sorry this cover was taken away from a black woman,\u201d she wrote.<\/em><\/p>\n

Blackhair\u00a0<\/em>magazine had some explaining to do after mistakenly featuring a white model rocking afro-textured hair on the cover of its latest issue.\u00a0The publication, known for offering hair tips and tricks for black and mixed-race women, was called out by a white model Emily Bador <\/a>who says an old modeling photo of her was used without her permission for the December\/January issue of the mag.<\/p>\n

In an Instagram post<\/a> published on Sunday, Bador shared a photo of the cover, writing in a caption that she \u201cdeeply and sincerely\u201d apologized for the picture. Bador explained to her over 64,000 followers that the image had been taken three or four years ago when she was around 15 years old, before she had learned about the concept of cultural appropriation and the stigma many black women receive for wearing their hair in its natural state…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

White Model Apologizes After Her Photo Shows Up On Blackhair Magazine The Huffington Post 2016-11-21 Zeba Blay \u201cI\u2019m very sorry this cover was taken away from a black woman,\u201d she wrote. Blackhair\u00a0magazine had some explaining to do after mistakenly featuring a white model rocking afro-textured hair on the cover of its latest issue.\u00a0The publication, known […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,6462,10],"tags":[25480,25479,10108,2425,19185],"class_list":["post-50115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-uk","tag-blackhair","tag-emily-bador","tag-huffington-post","tag-the-huffington-post","tag-zeba-blay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50116,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50115\/revisions\/50116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}