Cat Shavon Addison on Instagram: "Judy Garland’s blackface scene in Everybody Sing (1938) shows how minstrelsy was still treated as normal in Hollywood. Garland was a teenager under MGM’s control with little agency, forced into roles by the studio system. While common for its time, the performance was rooted in racist stereotypes that cannot be excused. Historians stress that the issue lies less with Garland’s intent and more with Hollywood’s exploitation and normalization of racism in entertain

Caught Live on Instagram: "Before hashtags and press conferences, there was Shirley Temple quietly putting it on the record. In her 1988 memoir Child Star and later interviews, the former box-office phenomenon described what she faced as a girl working in 1930s–40s Hollywood: powerful men who treated access to a child performer as entitlement. She recalled studio “meetings” where an executive asked her mother for “favors” in exchange for roles, and an infamous audition as a young teen at MGM whe