A former Raffles Institute (RI) student has apologised after a group blackface photo that was taken in 2016 resurfaced and went viral on social media, in the wake of the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests in the US.

11 RI students were featured in the insensitive photo that was taken in 2016 – the same year that a Chinese actor wearing blackface in a local television drama sparked outrage. RI’s own in-house publication ran an article written by a student about how offensive blackface is.