A dark part of Black history showed enslavers spent thousands on fancy girls, light-skinned enslaved women who served as sex laborers.
Visualize a black woman – glazed with a lustrous, creamy complexion à la Dorothy Dandridge – owning the sidewalk with her vibrant Ankara-esque fashion, natural curls popping out of her colorful head wrap, and her Africa-shaped earrings dangling beautifully from her ears. What a sight to see, isn’t it? Most people – well, if they’re […]
The fact that colorism is still very much a global cultural practice, as feminist author Alice Walker once said, is both sad but not shocking at all. In the April issue of InStyle, Fashion and Beauty Editor-at-Large Kahlana Barfield Brown opened up about how as a dark-skinned woman she learned to love herself, even when colorism reared […]
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