Students Removed from Catholic School for ‘Blackface’ Awarded $1M by Jury After Seeing What Really Happened
Two former California high school students who were expelled after being accused of wearing “blackface” seven years ago are walking away from a lengthy legal battle with plenty of cash to show for it. The families of…
Two former California high school students who were expelled after being accused of wearing “blackface” seven years ago are walking away from a lengthy legal battle with plenty of cash to show for it.
The families of the two students sued their San Francisco-area Catholic high school, which expelled them without hearing their side of the story in 2020 when an image posted online showed them donning dark coloring on their faces.
The coloring ended up being a sediment mask for acne prevention and treatment, but that did not stop the teens from being hit with “blackface” allegations.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the offending image was taken in 2017 but circulated online in May 2020 during the country’s wave of racial unrest after George Floyd died in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department.
The former students, whose names were given as AH and HH in the Lawsuit, were offered two options by St. Francis High School in Mountain View when the image sparked outrage on