From navigating childhood insecurities as an "ugly duckling" to becoming the first Black face of Lancôme, Lupita Nyong’o’s ...

In a personal essay, writer Mariah Towles addresses how a conversation about skin tone on "Love Island" is reshaping the narrative around colorism.

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 ...

Atlanta-produced independent film celebrating body diversity, challenging colorism, and uplifting Black plus-size ...

For decades, Hollywood has struggled with authentically representing the spectrum of Black womanhood on screen, often defaulting to a narrow, colorist ideal. Lighter-skinned Black actresses have ...

CNN — To explore colorism in Africa, British-Nigerian actress Beverly Naya has produced a documentary on Netflix titled "Skin." Unlike racism, colorism is the discrimination of people based on skin ...

A study of Black Americans is among the first to show how the internalization of negative messages about dark skin tones could be linked to harms to health. Researchers found that Black Americans who ...

Wheatish / Rhea Goveas, Indian American -- Too dark / Miho Iwata, Japanese (Permanent U.S. Resident) -- Sang duc ho / Catherine Ma, Chinese American -- You're so white, you're so pretty / Sambath Meas ...

Shamea Morton has responded to some viewers’ concerns that she may be the victim of colorism on The Real Housewives of ...