Nollywood-born actress Folake Olowofoyeku has sparked an important conversation about colorism and deeply ingrained beauty ...

"We were keeping it real,” Martin Lawrence says in response to colorism critiques claiming his jokes towards Tichina Arnold ...

“Mean Girls” star Avantika is speaking out about colorism in India and the negative perceptions of darker-skinned women from South India. In an interview with Cosmopolitan, the 19-year-old actor, who ...

LOS ANGELES — Jonnae Thompson has felt for a long time that her dark brown skin and natural hair have made finding work in Hollywood especially hard. “It’s like this negative connotation,” said the 37 ...

People who are conventionally attractive are often treated differently — treated better — than people who aren't. That's "pretty privilege." And when pretty privilege is based on Eurocentric beauty ...

Colorism is a word that might not get as much attention as racism, but its impact runs deep, especially within Latino ...

While denying claims about "colorist" jokes about her 'Martin' character "Pam," actress Tichina Arnold alleged that her best friend and former castmate Tisha Campbell experienced “reverse colorism." ...

Erika Alexander, the actress known for her roles on “The Cosby Show” and most notably “Living Single” is making an interesting claim about the latter show and other popular sitcoms from the 90s. And ...

“My grandparents were West Indian. We really didn’t have an issue with color, per se, more so with class.” – Jada “There was a little bit of it with my grandmother. They were from Barbados and she ...

Amara La Negra Says Joining 'Love & Hip Hop' Was An Opportunity To Talk About Colorism ESSENCE spoke to La Negra about beauty and fashion during a behind-the-scenes video for her profile in the ...

The global skin-lightening industry generates billions of dollars annually by exploiting insecurities rooted in centuries of colonial conditioning, creating a toxic legacy of skin bleaching that ...

“Mean Girls” star Avantika is speaking out about colorism in India and the negative perceptions of darker-skinned women from South India. In an interview with Cosmopolitan, the 19-year-old actor, who ...