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Eight black women discuss the politics of skin tone

2019 · 6 min · English

Eight black women sit together and talk plainly about how lighter or darker skin has shaped their dating lives, careers and standing within their own community. It is an unfiltered conversation about colorism that rarely gets this much room to breathe on camera.

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Why it's free: Free on The Guardian's own channel; The Guardian made it.