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...African Americans have privately known for years: that there are benefits simply for being a minority who is fairer. Traditionally, "beauty barriers" have almost exclusively been broken by lighter-skinned blacks - from the earliest black sex symbols such as Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge to the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams. This is why Sims was such a revelation: a beautiful black woman who was - from her skin tone to her hair texture - truly and quintessentially black. She opened the runway door for others, including role model Michelle Obama and the other supermodel Naomi - Campbell - to catwalk through...
...tall, striking, confident, chiseled, brown-skinned beauty, she has forever changed how America defines beautiful...
Read "The Mystery of Borderline Personality Disorder." Read "America's Medicated Army...
Author Kurt Andersen's new book, Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America, examines the economic, political and cultural opportunities to be found in the wake of the financial crises. In this excerpt, the third of five pieces to appear on TIME.com, he explains why he thinks Baby Boomer culture should change to reflect the urgency of modern life...
...from musicians, movie stars and other youth icons. Late-night TV hosts lampoon Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney as punch lines while MTV throws support to left-leaning causes like gay marriage. But hundreds of young people with a different perspective are flocking to Washington, D.C., for the Young America's Foundation's 31st annual National Conservative Student Conference, which begins Aug. 4. One of them is Lauren Scirocco, a rising senior at Ramapo College of New Jersey. The 21-year-old tells TIME why it's hard to be a conservative in college classrooms, why Palin frightens Democrats...