Actress Folake Olowofoyeku speaks openly about her experiences with colorism in Nigeria and Hollywood, sharing candid reflections on beauty standards and representation.

As we celebrate Women’s History Month in March, we must reflect on how colorism has influenced our concepts of beauty as it applies to women. Colorism, grounded in racism, is a discrimination based on ...

A young San Francisco artist's exhibit at the Museum of African Diaspora explores the issues surrounding beauty and skin color within the Black community, and it does so using a medium that was once ...

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Black women may struggle with beauty standards. Source: istockphoto Although most of us have a general understanding of racism, few consider the impact of skin color apart from race. Colorism is a ...

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

These preferences — while not intended to seem harmful — reinforce systematic colorism, which has detrimental psychological consequences. Yet, another fact that remains unobserved is that these biases ...

This piece was co-authored by Diane-Jo Bart-Plange, a doctoral candidate studying colorism, racism, and stereotyping at the University of Virginia in the Department of Psychology. In 2018, actress and ...