The Real Housewives franchise has become a cultural phenomenon in recent years, with millions of viewers tuning in to watch the drama unfold among aspirational women. However, behind the glitz and ...
Actress Keke Palmer has made it clear that she is not interested in being compared to fellow actress Zendaya. A heated debate about ‘colorism’ found its way on social media after the Nope star’s ...
Jodie Turner-Smith opened up about how raising her biracial daughter has given her space to heal from experiences with colorism. Being a dark-skinned woman, her reality in the world will be notably ...
OPINION: When it comes to solving problems like colorism, our collective healing would go a lot further if we honored the specificity of each other’s experiences I was sitting at a lunch table in 10th ...
Experts and people of color weigh in on the long-term effects of colorism. "She's pretty for a dark-skin girl" is an unfortunate saying that many Black women have heard at some point in their lifetime ...
Colorism, the cousin to racism, plays an active role in Hollywood. Most times mainstream media assumes diversity means casting a few racially ambiguous actors to their films. Unfortunately, the ...
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'Black-ish' explores colorism in a truly "terrifying" episode, writer and executive producer Peter Saji writes for The Hollywood Reporter. By Peter Saji In black parlance, the word “company” loosely ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about Black and neurodivergent identity in the workplace. In the past few years race has been the center of a national ...
In the penultimate episode of Lovecraft Country, Tic, Montrose, and Letitia “Leti” Lewis go back to the night of the Tulsa Race Massacre to retrieve the Book of Names from Tic’s family before it’s ...
Lori L. Tharps is an associate professor of journalism at Temple University and the author of Same Family, Different Colors Skin color matters because we are a visual species and we respond to one ...