Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jodie Turner-Smith opened up about how raising her biracial daughter has given her space to heal from experiences with colorism.

Have you ever had a judgy thought about your skin tone or someone else’s? Or saw a movie that seemed to shine more of a spotlight on actors with lighter skin? Colorism is skin-tone discrimination that ...

This piece was co-authored by Diane-Jo Bart-Plange, a doctoral candidate studying colorism, racism, and stereotyping at the University of Virginia in the Department of Psychology. In 2018, actress and ...

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When rapper and producer André 3000 performed at Lollapalooza back in 2014, he wore a black jumpsuit embossed with seven bold words: "Across cultures, darker people suffer most. Why?" Since then, the ...

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Someone recently sent me a viral reel of a Black man explaining why he quit therapy: His therapist had never heard of colorism. He shared that his relationship with his darker-skinned brother had been ...

When we talk about colorism in the United States, it’s typically through a Black American gaze, which we all know is not the collective Black perspective. Directed by Daniel Etim Effiong, the ...

Growing up as a first-gen teen in Queens during the '90s, my Black Dominican immigrant mother would routinely say things to me like, "Tu saliste perfecta, saliste mas clara que yo, pero arreglate esa ...

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 ...