Prada withdraws luxury trinkets over blackface controversy

NEW YORK (AP) — Prada is no longer selling a line of accessories and displays following complaints they featured blackface-style imagery.
The controversy began last week when a New Yorker complained in a viral Facebook posting after walking past a Prada boutique in Manhattan’s SoHo district and noticing what she described as a “racist and denigrating” caricature in the storefront.
The Italian fashion house had recently launched a series of luxury keychains and trinkets, i