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Skin Color

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'Light Skin vs. Dark Skin' party highlights black on black bias

Mychal Denzel Smith
OPINION - Colorism remains a taboo topic that is generally swept under the rug...
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'Light Skin vs. Dark Skin' party sparks outrage

Clutch Magazine
CLUTCH - Club promotors in Columbus, Ohio were inspired by twitter hashtags "#teamlightskin" and "#teamdarkskin" and decided to create a party themed around skin tone...
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Lil' Wayne's love of light-skinned women leads to black-lash

Kia Miakka Natisse
OPINION - He's never been hailed as a bastion of moral righteousness, so should we really be surprised he that he's not culturally sensitive and informed?...
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University of Vermont study examines biracial identity

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Racial "passing" still takes place today, University of Vermont sociologist Nikki Khanna reports in a new study, but in different ways...
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'1-drop rule' appears to persist for biracial individuals

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The centuries-old "one-drop rule" assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle Berry...
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Why did Victoria's Secret brand black models 'wild things'?

Kia Miakka Natisse
OPINION - Somewhat mysteriously, all of the ethnic models got to walk the runway in the wild things segment, replete with "tribal" body paint...
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'Hobbit' film light skinned-only casting leaves black mark

Ronda Racha Penrice
OPINION - Let the role be one of a hero or heroine, or, in this case, a hobbit, and it becomes very difficult to place actors of color in these roles...
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Consumer Reports: Kinect motion-senser not 'racist'

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NEW YORK (AP) - GameSpot, a popular video game website, said earlier it found through testing Kinect that its facial recognition camera system did not work properly for some players...
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Skin lightening is serious business in India

Ronda Racha Penrice
OPINION - Given our knowledge of racism in this country, we understand that this market exists in India precisely because of racism...
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Vaseline promotes skin lightening through Facebook app

Lana Schupbach
theGRIO REPORT - The app was developed to promote Vaseline's line of skin lightening creams for men by cashing in on India's notorious preference for lighter skin tones...
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