
News
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.

News
theGRIO REPORT – A new website has launched allowing African American visitors to determine if they are perceived as light-skin or dark-skinned…

Entertainment
theGRIO REPORT – Lupita Nyong’o visited Sesame Street recently to have a quick conversation with Elmo about skin.


Entertainment Opinion
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…

Entertainment Opinion Lifestyle
OPINION – Lupita Nyongo has slayed stereotypes, not only about the beauty of dark African skin, but intelligence and femininity as well…

Politics
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.