Bon Apptit Top Editor Adam Rapoport Resigns After Brownface Photo, Outcry From Staffers

The editor-in-chief of Bon Apptit magazine has stepped down after a photo of him wearing brownface resurfaced and several of the magazines few staffers of color publicly called on him to resign as a reckoning on diversity, inclusion and representation sweeps the media industry.

Adam Rapoport announced his exit Monday after freelance food journalist Tammie Teclemariam unearthed a 2013 Instagram photo of him wearing brownface for Halloween and perpetuating negative stereotypes about Latinx people.

I do not know why Adam Rapoport simply doesnt write about Puerto Rican food for @bonappetit himself!!! https://t.co/rW0k5tjMoS pic.twitter.com/odZnFLz2gd

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I do not know why Adam Rapoport simply doesnt write about Puerto Rican food for @bonappetit himself!!! https://t.co/rW0k5tjMoS pic.twitter.com/odZnFLz2gd
chez tammie (@tammieetc) June 8, 2020

In an Instagram post Monday night, Rapoport apologized for the extremely ill-conceived photo and for his blind spots as an editor.

I am stepping down as editor-in-chief of Bon Apptit to reflect on the work that I need to do as a human being and to allow BA to get to a better place, he said, adding that the publications staff and readers all deserve better. The staff has been working hard to evolve the brand in a positive, more diverse direction. I will do all I can to support that work, but I am not the one to lead that work. I am deeply sorry for my failings and to the position in which I put the editors of BA.

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