Why The Met Is Finally Putting An End To Using 'Blackface'

After 124 years, The Metropolitan Opera is finally getting rid of blackface. Starting Monday, The Met will stop using makeup to darken white actors’ skin in their production of “Otello.” The opera, based on William Shakespeare’s "Othello,” stars a black general as a lead character, but the actor cast to play this role is white. HuffPost Live host Josh Zepps asked Naomi André, an editor at ‘Blackness In Opera,’ why didn’t they cast a black actor to play the role in the first pla...