The highly-anticipated movie “The Woman King” was released in theaters today. It stars Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award winner Viola Davis and numerous other darker skin Black women actors. The ...

While dark-skinned Black women have been on TV for decades, they have rarely been centered the way Viola Davis was centered as legal savant Annalise Keating, Oprah notwithstanding.

While the fix to this issue seems to be fairly simple—hiring more dark-skinned girls and women in nuanced and leading roles—I’m not sure what more it’ll take to get the Hollywood machine ...

I love African American women, but I just don’t like my skin complexion. My complexion, we too gutter.” He doubled down on his comments during an interview with Essence.

It took me years to verbalize what the women in my family and I had endured for centuries: an anti-Black world that sees dark skin as undesirable under the tenets of colorism and texturism.

Why Are Dark-Skinned Black Girls Being Erased in TV and Film? With the increase of lighter-toned and/or bi-racial actresses taking centerstage over the years, one may ask whether or not equal ...

Despite the fact that there is nothing about this woman’s image that triggers negative emotions (not counting the ...

British Vogue is making a major statement in the fashion world with its February issue by featuring nine stunning dark-skinned African models on the cover.

A majority of Black women reported using skin lightening products, with some admitting that they didn’t know the products contained harmful ingredients like hydroquinone, according to a survey ...