As we acknowledge our long-term, ingrained bias toward light and away from dark, we need to constantly be aware that ...

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 ...

On February 21, 2025, the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy hosted a compelling presentation at 509 O'Brian Hall. The event featured the Distinguished Speaker Joni Hersch, Cornelius Vanderbilt ...

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-year-old ...

Many groups of people have suffered invidious discrimination in America, and some still do. In addition to people of African descent, women, gays, Latinos, Jews, Muslims, Catholics and many other ...