Dr. Dwandalyn Reece ’85, curator of music and performing arts at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, appeared on ±·±Ê¸é’²õÌýAll Things ConsideredÌýandÌý— the practice of white performers using black makeup on their faces to caricature Black Americans. “The lingering images of blackface and minstrelsy . . . [and] knowing the history and how painful these images were to African Americans, and [how it] set off a way off stereotyping and dehumanizing people based on the color of their skin—those images are tied to a legacy of oppression and slavery and objectifying and devaluing people, said Reece on CBS This Morning.