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by Randall Sullivan onNovember 30, 2012
An excerpt from Untouchable traces the King of Pop's focus on music and his skin-color issues.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onMarch 8, 2012
In today's link roundup: Another reason to skip skin bleaching creams. Plus: Bad reaction to slavery-themed atheism billboard.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onApril 11, 2011
And the efforts to stop it seem to be missing the real problem. (Hint: It's not about the chemicals.)
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by Shiwani Srivastava onSeptember 30, 2009
Sammy Sosa’s new vampire complexion is a jarring reminder that, from the Dominican Republic to Dakar to New Delhi, white is still right, yellow is still mellow and if you’re black, get back.
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June 15, 2009
Some folks bleach their skin to avoid being black, some do it as a trend. It's all ridiculous to me.
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