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 ...

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 ...

When you see a chocolate-complexioned actress on TV in a complex and sexualized role, clap for that woman and whoever cast her, Viola Davis argues, because dark-brown women have to contend with the ...

I was sitting at a lunch table in 10th grade when an amber-skinned boy told me that I was the darkest girl he would go for. I remember being annoyed by his assessment that I had barely made the cut ...

"In trying to paint a mosaic of this community, we fell short," Lin-Manuel Miranda said in a statement Ashley Boucher is a former writer/reporter at PEOPLE. She left PEOPLE in 2021. Lin-Manuel Miranda ...

When engaging in the nuanced discussions of colorism, we must strive to understand the root cause and origins of colorism and how it is still used as a tool to divide groups that already experience ...

Viola Davis shared her experience dealing with colorism and microaggressions throughout her career. During the Kering Women In Motion conversation at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Davis said she was ...

The "Nope" star, 28, hit back on comparisons of her career to Zendaya's after a tweet gained attention over the weekend discussing Hollywood's issue with colorism – discrimination against people of ...

“So I’m not even being considered to audition for a role because I am ‘too dark’,” tweeted actress Imani Hakim. The former “Everybody Hates Chris” star took to Twitter in mid-July to express her ...

“I want Asian women to be seen as a force to reckon with.” Having loved makeup her entire life, Yu Chen Shih has never felt accepted by the industry's standard of beauty. After years of struggling to ...