“It’s very sad,” she said. “Dark skin is not good enough, blackness is not enough. But black is beautiful. Black is good enough. One [skin tone] is not better than the other.” Tweet This ...

In 2006, the University of Georgia did a study that found employers preferred lighter skinned black men to darker ... I’d never considered whether I was beautiful, average looking or otherwise.

Nyong’o herself said she struggled with the dark color of her skin as a teenager, but learned to accept it as beautiful. The turning point for her, she said, was when she was 16 and her parents ...

"You have dark skin and you are beautiful" Salma Ali says she had low self-esteem when she was younger. It's something she thinks a lot of darker-skinned young women experience.

All around me, White America was slowly but surely making a statement that dark skin is beautiful. From Gabrielle Union to Viola Davis. America, who for so long reinforced the idea that beauty was ...

In the black community, skin lightening has always been a controversial ... because to them the lighter you are, the more beautiful you are. While I can’t speak for Nigerians, I can certainly ...

“Mommy, I have dark skin, and you have light skin,” said my 3-year-old daughter recently. I asked her where she learned that? She replied shyly, “my teacher.” As a parent who wants to ...

“She’s my type,” he described. “Definitely like her skin tone. I like dark skin women. She’s beautiful.” To her surprise, the female panelist hadn’t expected to catch the contestant ...

you will teach little dark-skin girls to be free from the shackles of colorism that would have affected them too. And wouldn’t that be a beautiful thing?

I wished for my sister’s skin because it was darker and showed no marks. To me, it was beautiful, and because of her I had come to equate dark skin with a resistance to scars. And yet the ...

Your Black is No Longer Beautiful: The Resurrection of Colorism Another force that contributed to this shift was colorism, ...

Skin experts say people of color still need to wear sunscreen. The melanin in darker skin offers some extra protection from ...