Skin Color

Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
theGrio REPORT – In a powerful short film titled “Yellow Fever,” Ng’endo Mukii, a Kenyan artist and filmmaker, sets out to expose the troubling messages portrayed by the media about skin color. She wanted to find a way to express the near self-loathing that many women of color experience.
/ March 30, 2015
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
theGRIO REPORT – A new website has launched allowing African American visitors to determine if they are perceived as light-skin or dark-skinned…
/ December 10, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
theGRIO REPORT – Lupita Nyong’o visited Sesame Street recently to have a quick conversation with Elmo about skin.
/ September 17, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
OPINION – Do we think we’re not good enough that when we land on a major magazine cover, we need to be cynical about how we got there?…
/ April 24, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
OPINION – My joy over Nyong’o’s latest cover has nothing with needing the approval of a mainstream (read: white) magazine to recognize black is obviously beautiful…
/ April 23, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
OPINION – Lupita Nyongo has slayed stereotypes, not only about the beauty of dark African skin, but intelligence and femininity as well…
/ March 3, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
theGRIO REPORT – Fox News host Tucker Carlson joined Alex Jones’ radio show last Friday and claimed the Democratic Party is the new Ku Klux Klan and that the government is responsible of a kind of reverse racism.
/ March 3, 2014