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Jun 2, 2021 · Actor and comedian Ellie Kemper was crowned 1999 Queen of Love and Beauty at the "Veiled Prophet Ball" in St. Louis, Missouri. The ball is affiliated with an organization that has a racist...
Jun 7, 2021 · On Monday, Kemper took to Instagram to issue a statement about the scandal, denouncing the Veiled Prophet organization—which hosts the debutante ball—as a group with an “unquestionably racist,...
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Many celebrities, including "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" castmateTituss Burgess, supported Kemper's apology by both sharing her post andoffering positive messages. Burgess shared Kemper's full apology on his own Instagramaccount writing: "I love my Ellie, Oh, & P.S. Next time, just ask me, I’ll tell ya what to do." Other stars likeMindy Kaling, Kati...
The Veiled Prophet Organization, which originated in the late 1800s as a group of wealthy business owners in St. Louis, still holds an annual debutante event called the Veiled Prophet Ball, in which the daughter of one of the group's members is crowned queen by a "Veiled Prophet," a secret member who wears white robes and a white veil covering his ...
The Veiled Prophet, co-founded in the late 1800s by former Confederate officer Alonzo Slayback, originated as a response from St. Louis' business elite to the 1877 general strike, historian Thomas Spencerwrote in his 2000 book, "The St. Louis Veiled Prophet Celebration: Power on Parade, 1877-1995." He added that members viewed it as a public celebr...
The organization only welcomed its first Black members in 1979, years after protests from civil rights group Action Committee to Improve Opportunities for Negroes (ACTION) and activists including Percy Green, according to St. Louis' Cultural Resources Office. The event was also forced to move locations after an ACTION lawsuit alleged the city was c...
Jun 3, 2021 · Misinformation crossed with caustic jokes gave birth to “Ellie Kemper is a KKK Princess,” which, while attention-grabbing, is not a true statement—obscuring a necessary critique of...
Jun 7, 2021 · Actor Ellie Kemper was called a 'KKK princess' for winning a debutante crown back in 1999. Now she has apologized after last week's online outcry.
Jun 2, 2021 · Twitter users have been quick to paint actor Ellie Kemper as racist after her never-secret teenage involvement in an elite society’s celebration in St. Louis, Mo., recently resurfaced online....
Jun 7, 2021 · After being branded a “KKK princess” in a media firestorm last week, Kemper released a statement Monday, saying that she should have known better than to attend the historically “racist” Veiled...
