Epiphany, known in Spain as el Día de los Reyes Magos (the Day of the Three Kings) is celebrated with parades all over the country every year on the fifth of January. The stars of these parades are the three kings, known also as the three wise men who brought the newborn Jesus Christ gifts of gold, incense and mehrr: Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar. However, these parades find themselves embroiled in controversy year after year, for one of these Three Wise Men (Balthasar) is depicted as a black man. Yet he is not always portrayed by a black man but rather a white man in facepaint.
After the newscast, we'll be talking to the Coordinator of the Pro-Human Rights Association of Andalucía, Diego Boza, about the persistent use of blackface in local parades all over Spain.
