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Fashion Institute Suspends Two Top Officials After ‘Racist’ Fashion Show

The Fashion Institute of Technology has suspended two top academic officials after they hosted a fashion show that many found offensive and racist, reported the New York Post. During the show, a recent graduate had his models wear oversized red lips and “monkey” ears. The two officials suspended are Jonathan Kyle Farmer, chair of the […]

February 24, 2020

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Tom Wolfe, Pioneering Journalist and Novelist, Dies at 88

Tom Wolfe, the influential writer whose unconventional, exuberant prose laid the foundation for so-called New Journalism and fueled his best-sellers The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities, has died. He was 88. Lynn Nesbit, Wolfe’s agent, told the Associated Press that Wolfe died of an infection Monday in a hospital in Manhattan. Wolfe’s […]

May 16, 2018