{"id":50150,"date":"2016-11-24T01:28:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T01:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50150"},"modified":"2016-11-24T01:28:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T01:28:13","slug":"black-u-k-beauty-magazine-accidentally-put-a-white-model-on-its-cover-apologies-followed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50150","title":{"rendered":"Black U.K. beauty magazine accidentally put a white model on its cover. Apologies followed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2016\/11\/23\/black-u-k-beauty-magazine-accidentally-put-a-white-model-on-its-cover-apologies-followed\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Black U.K. beauty magazine accidentally put a white model on its cover. Apologies followed.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2016-11-22<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/travismandrews\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Travis M. Andrews<\/strong><\/a>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2016\/11\/23\/black-u-k-beauty-magazine-accidentally-put-a-white-model-on-its-cover-apologies-followed\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/15037141_1251880868191569_788769938362895362_n.jpg?oh=50395c2a9d8e702b06898803efc9edc8&amp;oe=58B2E2AD\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darth_bador\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Bador<\/a> is a white woman. She is not, therefore, a black woman. Normally, that wouldn\u2019t be news worth reporting, mostly because it isn\u2019t news.<\/p>\n<p>But her race came into play recently due to the new cover of <em>Blackhair<\/em> magazine, a British glossy that bills itself\u00a0as \u201can international bi-monthly magazine for the style conscious black woman. Packed with 100\u2019s of hair inspirations, fashion, lifestyle and celebrity interviews, we are one of the leading publications for women of colour in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Europe\" target=\"_blank\">Europe<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The magazine, which generally if not always features black or mixed-race models, used her photograph for the cover of its December\/January issue. The editors have admitted they didn\u2019t know she was white&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;According to Blackhair\u2019s editor, Keysha Davis, who wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blackhairmags\/photos\/a.150577958321871.31247.144216155624718\/1257613690951620\/?type=3\" target=\"_blank\">note on the magazine\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>, the publication runs photographs they receive from PR companies and salons. They specifically request that these photographs be of black or mixed-race women&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2016\/11\/23\/black-u-k-beauty-magazine-accidentally-put-a-white-model-on-its-cover-apologies-followed\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black U.K. beauty magazine accidentally put a white model on its cover. Apologies followed. The Washington Post 2016-11-22 Travis M. Andrews, Staff Writer Emily Bador is a white woman. She is not, therefore, a black woman. Normally, that wouldn\u2019t be news worth reporting, mostly because it isn\u2019t news. But her race came into play recently [&hellip;]<\/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":[25480,25479,25489,2875,25488,25487,2581],"class_list":["post-50150","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-keysha-davis","tag-the-washington-post","tag-travis-andrews","tag-travis-m-andrews","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50150","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=50150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50151,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50150\/revisions\/50151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}