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Skin Color

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Why do we care if Jesus was black?

Mashaun D. Simon
theGRIO REPORT - It is the age old question that has generated years and years of debate. But according to most scholars, the answer is not a difficult one...
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Has the cosmetic industry embraced color?

Kunbi Tinuoye
theGRIO REPORT - Today, it's not uncommon for black celebs to land lucrative ad campaigns promoting beauty products...
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Mixed race people ranked ahead of blacks socially

Jay Scott Smith
theGRIO REPORT - A recent study shows that people of mixed race are placed below Whites socially, but ahead of blacks, adding more fuel to the fire...
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Are Michael Jackson's kids colorless?

Ronda Racha Penrice
OPINION - In the past, ample comments have been made regarding the genetic unlikelihood that these three kids are Michael Jackson's spawn...
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Slideshow: African American albino celebrities

Amber Leon
SLIDESHOW - There are a handful of well-known African American's in pop culture that have the genetic condition known as Albinism...
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Confessions of an African-American albino

Kunbi Tinuoye
theGRIO REPORT - Marlon Brown is not alone. Albinism is a rare, genetically inherited condition that affects roughly 17,000 in the United States...
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Cain invokes race on Social Security, gays

theGrio
theGRIO REPORT - Herman Cain's political incorrectness can be a double-edged sword...
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Is Paula Patton not 'black enough' for you?

Clutch Magazine
OPINION - Can we critique Paula Patton's acting skills? Most definitely, but to say she shouldn't play any role -- in a 'black' film -- simply because she 'sounds' white is amazingly stupid...
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Vybz Kartel launches skin bleaching product line

Clutch Magazine
OPINION - Kartel -- who, ironically, was recently charged with conspiracy to commit murder-- is gearing up to release a line of skin care products targeted to men, which includes various body and skin brightening creams...
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The racial politics behind 'Planet of the Apes'

Mychal Denzel Smith
OPINION - In a way, it's the 'post-racial' version of 'Planet of the Apes' in the same way America has experienced this idea of post-racialism...
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