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Ifill, who served as president and director-counsel of the organization from 2012 to 2022, wrote: 'I had been getting a few of these calls, as our work fighting against voter suppression and police brutality was receiving national attention.' 'I don't know the Blake Lively of the red carpet. Or the Met Gala. I never watched Gossip Girl,' wrote Ifill. 'The Blake Lively I know is a philanthropist and a student of our country's most intractable problems.

She and her husband Ryan Reynolds reached out in 2019 to make a contribution to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.' Years after tying the knot, the Deadpool actor branded the wedding 'a giant f*ing mistake' in a 2020 interview after the pair were widely criticised for seemingly glamorising the former plantation where Black slaves suffered and died.  The stunning backdrop to the couple's nuptials has a dark history of slavery, with 'preserved' slave cabins and fields of cotton serving as a constant reminder of the horrors that once took place there.

It is one of America's oldest working plantations. In the 19th century it was owned by Henry and John Horlbeck who were in the brick business, building many of the public spaces in downtown Charleston using brick from the plantation. She added that Lively's 'commitment to filling those gaps—and becoming the most fully informed and prepared citizen - is what I appreciate most about her. Blake is a serious person. She's a risk taker. And she's committed to moving this country forward.

For her children. And for mine.' 'We decided one night to go to the arcade where they were and study 6th grade math I put bronzer all over myself and a Scary Spice 'fro so I think they'd think I was a Black girl, so I could stalk them and my friend dressed up as this goth girl and we literally sat outside their houses,' she shared. All of the parties dispute the allegations against them, but Blake has found herself under intense scrutiny for everything from 'mean girl' behaviour to feuds with other co-stars and her wedding to Ryan Reynolds on a former slave plantation in South Carolina - a move that has repeatedly attracted fierce criticism and for which Reynolds subsequently apologised.

Now it has emerged that she was embroiled in another incidence of impersonating a black woman when she took part in a Saturday Night Live sketch in 2009, entitled 'Virginiaca shops for a beaded skirt'.  The actress, 37, and her husband Ryan Reynolds are currently embroiled in a lawsuit with her It Ends With Us co-star and Online Reading PRE-K Grade Teacher director Justin Baldoni after accusing him of sexual harassment as well as a smear campaign. The director then counter-sued the A-List couple, accusing them of defamation.  Blake has also face criticism by admitting she would wear a 'Scary Spice 'fro' and cover herself in bronzer while 'stalking' boys as a teenager, saying her disguise woulc make them 'think I was a Black girl'.

She noted: 'I'm always curious about the kind of research famous people do before they make that cold call to offer their support. The ones I have remained in relationship with are those who, like Blake, really did their homework.