Light Girls

Bill Dukes’ Light Girls, the follow-up to his 2011 documentary Dark Girls, aired on OWN last night, and Twitter and Facebook users wasted no time…

Although Amber Rose filed for divorce from her husband, rapper Wiz Khalifa, back in September, she’s had some harsh memories from her actual wedding with…

Amber Rose may have a loving attitude towards black men, but that doesn’t mean her family shares the same feeling. If you missed it, Monday night, during an interview for “Light Girls,” the follow-up to OWN’s documentary “Dark Girls,” Rose opened up about how colorism and racism within her family and the black community affected […]

Although Amber Rose filed for divorce from her husband, rapper Wiz Khalifa, back in September, she’s had some harsh memories from her actual wedding with…

As the nation celebrates Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 86th birthday, we are immersed in an intensive, often divisive, conversation about race in America.  Sixty years after King marched through the streets, like he did in Selma and cities throughout the South, we find ourselves still on the streets battling many of these same […]

Colorism apparently isn’t limited to dark-skinned women. The prejudice, which is a form of discrimination that happens to women with darker skin from those of the same race, actually affected light-skinned actress Raven-Symoné, who confessed to trying to darken her skin during her time on the classic sitcom “That’s So Raven.” “When I had my […]

The conversation about colorism in the Black community is far from over. Bill Duke’s “Dark Girls” is a documentary that addressed colorism–a topic that needed…

The conversation about colorism in the Black community is far from over. Bill Duke’s “Dark Girls” is a documentary that addressed colorism–a topic that needed…