Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jodie Turner-Smith opened up about how raising her biracial daughter has given her space to heal from experiences with colorism.

In a personal essay, writer Mariah Towles addresses how a conversation about skin tone on "Love Island" is reshaping the ...

Prejudicial discrimination that favors lighter shades of skin. Colorism, more generally, is the social preference for lighter skin, often experienced among people from a similar ethnic group. Black ...

This story was originally published on npr.org. On the Monday after the release of In the Heights, its creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda posted not a congratulatory note but an apology. Over the weekend, ...

When looking to create a more equitable workplace, it is imperative to interrogate the different ways that our systems and structures contribute to marginalization. One important aspect of the ...

In an interview with Ebony to promote his new book, Racism: From the Eyes of A Child, Mathew Knowles revealed just how much colorism affected him and the Black community. In the interview, Knowles ...

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"In trying to paint a mosaic of this community, we fell short," Lin-Manuel Miranda said in a statement Ashley Boucher is a former writer/reporter at PEOPLE. She left PEOPLE in 2021. Lin-Manuel Miranda ...

"Let that stage be your stepping stone, not your tombstone." That's Uncle Clifford's number-one rule at The Pynk, a strip club off exit 2-9 in the fictional town of Chucalissa, MS, that serves as the ...

Jodie Turner-Smith opened up about how raising her biracial daughter has given her space to heal from experiences with colorism. Being a dark-skinned woman, her reality in the world will be notably ...