Aboriginal women are all too familiar with this phrase. In her new documentary, Sasha Sarago investigates the racism behind it. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] I was 11 years old when my best friend’s sister approached me at her birthday party. She asked me what my nationality was; when I told her, she replied, “You’re too pretty to […]
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The Color Fetish | The New Yorker
Of constant fascination for me are the ways in which literature employs skin color to reveal character or drive narrative—especially if the fictional main character is white (which is almost always the case). Whether it is the horror of one drop of the mystical “black” blood, or signs of innate white superiority, or of deranged […]
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Lupita Nyong’o On Why Her New Children’s Book Is The Tribute To Melanin Magic She Needed | xoNecole
The Hollywood starlet transformed her negative self-image into a positive one.
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‘I’m either too black or not black enough’: One teenager’s experience | BBC News
Aries Brown, BBC News Illustration by Debie Loizou. [Reuters], Featured Image [dropcap]This[/dropcap] article was written by Aries Brown, an 18-year-old African-American student at an international school in eastern Europe. It was originally written for her school newspaper, and has been reprinted with her permission, and that of her school. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Coming here for my […]
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Why we asked 27 black women to speak out on taboo of colorism | The Guardian
Guardian US’s new series will explore the discrimination based on skin complexion that exists within the black community
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