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D.C. performance artist Sheldon Scott has hulled rice by hand for so long this week that his fingerprints are wearing off. He’ll do the grueling work for a few days. His enslaved ancestors on the South Carolina coast did it for years.

Italian fashion house Gucci announced a major push Friday to step up diversity hiring as part of a long-term plan to build cultural awareness at the luxury fashion company following an uproar over an $890 sweater that resembled blackface. Gucci also said it will hire a global director for diversity and inclusion, a newly created role that will be based...

Gucci’s creative director broke his silence Tuesday over an $890 sweater that resembled blackface, saying racism was never his intention.

A poll worker was issued a citation for assault by contact Tuesday after an altercation with a voter at a Houston, Texas polling place. Rolanda Anthony said Juanita Barnes, a poll worker, became aggressive when Anthony tried to cast her ballot. “Perhaps if I put on my blackface makeup today you would be able to comprehend what I’m saying,” Barnes...

In his latest move as a performance artist, Shia LeBeouf is joining forces with Vice and hitchhiking around the United States in the name of art, with his #TakeMeAnywhere project.