A high-ranking MTA boss won a 2014 promotion even after his colleagues reported shocking photos of him wearing blackface — and now the agency’s chair is red-faced with outrage. “Wearing blackface is racist,” MTA chair Joe Lhota said Wednesday, speaking at this month’s board meeting. Lhota was responding to a Tuesday expose by NBC News...

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