{"id":825485,"date":"2026-08-25T16:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825485\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T16:18:08","slug":"target-apologizes-pulls-halloween-costume-criticized-as-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825485\/","title":{"rendered":"Target apologizes, pulls Halloween costume criticized as racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"HXUICD3NFNDOLG5JYZ3ANLGQ4M\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Target has pulled a Halloween costume from shelves after critics said it evoked blackface and minstrel shows.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"Z4ENAI2EVVGDJD6PC6BG6POWTQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The costume, which was marketed as the \u201cKids\u2019 Glows under Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween Costume Bodysuit,\u201d prompted backlash on social media, with commentators saying its design resembled racist caricatures. The image for the $25 product, which has been removed from Target\u2019s website, depicted a Black child in an orange and black outfit with a ruffled collar, black gloves and a face covering mimicking an exaggerated, wide smile. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Target has pulled a Halloween costume from shelves after critics said it evoked blackface and minstrel shows. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-825485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}