A Prada storefront in Soho removed a controversial display on Friday morning amid mounting backlash that the merchandise featured "racist and denigrating blackface imagery."

The "Pradamalia" product line—which included wallets, earring sets and $500 keychains—elicited growing outrage online on Thursday following a Facebook post by Chinyere Ezie, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Ezie wrote that she encountered the "bewildering examples of their Sambo like imagery" after an emotional visit to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and that she was "shaking with anger." ...

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