For Black History Month, The Root is celebrating blackness in a new series called I Love My Blackness. In the series, we will celebrate black skin, black style, black friendship and black love.
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The first video in this melanin-rich celebration features our readers explaining why they love their black skin.
One of the men featured in the video says it best: “I just think black is gold.”
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