Mixed-Race Teenager Chosen To Be Joan Of Arc In French Parade; Racists Flip Out
"Mathilde Edey Gamassou was chosen among 250 girls Monday to play Joan for a spring festival marking the victory of the Catholic warrior saint in breaking the English siege of Orléans in 1429. ... But the announcement has been met with a flurry of posts on Twitter and on far-right websites branding her nomination an […]