...Chinyere Ezie, a lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights, said the monkey-like figures appeared to use "blackface imagery" in a public Facebook post on Thursday. "Today after returning to NYC after a very emotional visit to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture including an exhibit on blackface, I walked past Prada's Soho storefront only to be confronted with the very same racist and denigrating #blackface imagery," Ezie wrote. ...

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