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Born Everette Lynn Harris in Flint, Mich., he quit his job at IBM in his mid-30s and sold his first novel, Invisible Life, out of the trunk of his car to beauty salons and bookstores. A source of inspiration for black gay men, his once forbidden stories about their...
Though it still remains somewhat of a taboo to discuss, the skin-color barrier has historically been just as daunting for people of color as the racial barrier. A 2004 study showing that light-skinned immigrants in the U.S. earn more money on average than darker-skinned immigrants confirmed what...
A tall, striking, confident, chiseled, brown-skinned beauty, she has forever changed how America defines beautiful.
In doing so, Sims made it possible for brown girls everywhere to embrace their inner black beauty. We all know that junior high can be rough, but just imagine being a nearly 6-ft.-tall girl with both braces and glasses growing up in a place like Texas, where fellow...
Read TIME's 1969 article "Black Look in Beauty."