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Lisa De Bode

Lisa De Bode is a freelance reporter.

Lisa De Bode is a freelance reporter.

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Activists say it’s time to do away with Le Sauvage, a Belgian festival’s traditional blackface character

In Belgium, people have dressed up in blackface at festivals for decades. But in recent years, a push to end the practice is gaining steam.

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