The recent debate over Beyoncé’s appearance at the Los Angeles premiere of her new film has made one thing clear: even a cultural icon can’t escape the legacy of racism and colorism in America. The ...
Skin lightening, also called whitening or bleaching, is a multibillion-dollar industry with products that can damage the skin and that, researchers say, promote a dangerous message about beauty and ...
LOS ANGELES — Jonnae Thompson has felt for a long time that her dark brown skin and natural hair have made finding work in Hollywood especially hard. “It’s like this negative connotation,” said the 37 ...
Last week, a trailer for Netflix’s upcoming Western The Harder They Fall dropped— a film Indiewire described as “the biggest, poppiest, and most star-studded Black Western ever made.” It has a stellar ...
In this op-ed, Tiffany Onyejiaka explores how colorism causes a lack of representation for all forms of Black beauty in Hollywood. The range of young female blackness displayed on the big screen does ...
While checking out the Instagram page of fashion site FashionBombDaily this past weekend, I came across a photo of Yara Shahidi, bedecked in a poofy pink gown at the Marie Claire “Fresh Faces” party ...
On the topic of colorism, model and activist Yves Mathieu summarized its impact like this: “Sometimes it is our own people that make us feel smallest and put us in this mental place that we should not ...
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