Skin Color

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May 25, 2011
Supposedly an attempt to present Dove as a company that values cultural diversity, many believe that the ad fell astoundingly…
May 20, 2011
OPINION - Are industry pressures (and perhaps personal insecurities) forcing Beyoncé to go light, bright, and damn near white?...
May 5, 2011
Actress Paula Patton recently appeared on the Chelsea Handler show and the "Jumping the Broom" star dished on why people…
April 11, 2011
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - In the gritty slums of Jamaica, doctors say the skin lightening phenomenon has reached dangerous proportions...
March 14, 2011
Via Media Matters, former Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino called out President Obama and his staff for teasing House Speaker John…
February 25, 2011
OPINION - At my core, I cannot believe that it is healthy for anyone to not fully acknowledge all aspects…
February 23, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - This is not the first time Beyoncé has been at the center of a controversy regarding her…
February 18, 2011
CLUTCH - This week, when pictures of Beyoncé in Los Angeles for the Grammys hit the web, people seemed to…
February 11, 2011
VIDEO - With a mixed race president and most blacks having mixed backgrounds, should this debate even matter?...
February 9, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Michael Fosberg discovered a wholesale change in his racial identity in the time it took to make…
February 8, 2011
OPINION - In America, race has never been a scientific or genealogical designation, but a political and social one...
February 8, 2011
A simple split has become a nasty race war, and now, it's going back to the ugliest time in American…
February 1, 2011
If you recall, last year's cover featured only white women and caused a stir for not including any people of…
January 19, 2011
CLUTCH - "Love the skin you're in". One musician has taken those words to the next level...
January 12, 2011
OPINION - Colorism remains a taboo topic that is generally swept under the rug...
January 11, 2011
CLUTCH - Club promotors in Columbus, Ohio were inspired by twitter hashtags "#teamlightskin" and "#teamdarkskin" and decided to create a…
January 7, 2011
OPINION - He's never been hailed as a bastion of moral righteousness, so should we really be surprised he that…
December 29, 2010
Racial "passing" still takes place today, University of Vermont sociologist Nikki Khanna reports in a new study, but in different…
December 10, 2010
The centuries-old "one-drop rule" assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization…
December 6, 2010
OPINION - Somewhat mysteriously, all of the ethnic models got to walk the runway in the wild things segment, replete…