For decades, whitewashing has taken a diverse, multicultural world and tried to paint it one color. The picture has never been particularly pretty. “The world is black, the world is white.” ...

As applied to entertainment, whitewashing generally refers to the practice of casting White actors in non-White roles in order to appeal to larger audiences, at the expense of diverse representation.

This process in home sales is commonly referred to as “whitewashing,” when families of color neutralize their home to show that a white family could have lived there. All of this is done in ...

The whitewashing and erasure of Indigenous histories is not unique to this holiday, but it is, perhaps, one of the most ironic instances of indigenous mass murder in service of white European ...

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During a House Armed Services Committee hearing held on June 12, 2025, Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland shames Secretary of ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., is none too happy with the mainstream media's reaction to Vice President Kamala Harris taking the reins as the presumptive Democratic Party nominee since President Biden ...

Former Microsoft employee, Ibtihal Aboussad accuses UN of whitewashing tech companies’ role in enabling Israel’s AI-assisted ...

Re: “Don’t tell me to forget this pain — This generation must stand up against efforts to whitewash America’s history," by Peter Johnson, Sunday Opinion. Re: “ICE is seizing our lawful ...

When historians, creators, and storytellers do this, they’re guilty of whitewashing, in modern vernacular. According to one ...