I was sitting at a lunch table in 10th grade when an amber-skinned boy told me that I was the darkest girl he would go for. I remember being annoyed by his assessment that I had barely made the cut ...

Black people have no problem speaking about the discrimination and oppression from outside, external forces. But when it comes to the discrimination perpetuated within the community, like colorism, ...

Keke Palmer is hot off a very entertaining press tour for her latest film, Jordan Peele’s Nope, and is shutting down anyone trying to analyze or take away from her decades of success. Over the weekend ...

Experts and people of color weigh in on the long-term effects of colorism. "She's pretty for a dark-skin girl" is an unfortunate saying that many Black women have heard at some point in their lifetime ...

The "Nope" star, 28, hit back on comparisons of her career to Zendaya's after a tweet gained attention over the weekend discussing Hollywood's issue with colorism – discrimination against people of ...

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"Baby, THIS, is Keke Palmer," the multi-hyphenate proclaimed. By Kyle Denis Keke Palmer has been dominating social media with clips from various press appearances in support of her starring turn in ...

OPINION: When it comes to solving problems like colorism, our collective healing would go a lot further if we honored the specificity of each other’s experiences I was sitting at a lunch table in 10th ...

Keke Palmer says the comparisons between herself and Zendaya are “a great example of colorism.” After a now-viral tweet noted that the actresses “were both child-stars, but their mainstream popularity ...

Keke Palmer reminded her followers of her “incomparable” career on Sunday after social media conversation comparing her to Zendaya spiked over the weekend. On Saturday, a series of tweets between ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...