colorism in hollywood
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‘It’s Been Very Difficult’: Sistas Star Novi Brown Gets Candid About Being a Brown Girl in Hollywood
In a celebrity landscape that increasingly includes stars like Lupita Nyong’o, Viola Davis, Jodie Turner-Smith, Yvonne Orji, KiKi Layne, Danai Gurira and more, it can easy to convince yourself that we’re moving into a post-colorism era in Hollywood…and like the farce that was “post-racial,” you’d be wrong. That’s the point actress Novi Brown, who stars…
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Light-Skinned Black Actress Thinks Black Folks’ Criticism of Colorism Is Racism
Actress Alexandra Shipp had a rough day yesterday. A reply to a fan who tweeted to her about a possible movie pairing of her X-Men character Storm with fellow Marvel Comic character Thor led to a discussion on colorism in Hollywood in which Shipp said that 90 percent of the “racism” she experiences is from…