North Carolina retirement community apologizes for calendar

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina retirement community has apologized for distributing a calendar that featured a racially tinged caricature of a slave.

WWAY-TV in Wilmington reports the Bradley Creek Health Center at Carolina Bay circulated a community calendar Dec. 1 with a Christmas greeting card from the 1920s. The calendar featured the image of a black woman portrayed as a "mammy," a slave who took care of white children. Dictionary.com notes the term is "disparaging and offensive."

Officials of the community said they weren't aware of the image, adding there was no approval process for the calendar.