They explained, “These are all dark-skinned actors playing Africans, and I feel like it would have just been off to see me as a bi-racial American with a Nigerian accent just pretending that I ...

Actor Mithun Chakraborty, in his first speech after receiving the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, recalled his struggles as a dark-skinned actor. The 75-year-old actor was emotional and asked young actors ...

It's always outrageous to hear stories about how our favorite beloved Black actors were and still are treated when it comes to film sets. Some have struggled with proper lighting for deeper hues ...

Failing to do this right reduces Black actors to their skin color, rather than allowing them to inhabit a character that makes sense in its entirety. Steve Toussaint as Lord Corlys Velaryon, ...

Back then, people said that dark-skinned actors wouldn’t survive in the film industry and advised me to go back home. I prayed to God, asking if he could change my skin color, but he couldn’t.

There is a long history of Black actors and faces being over or underexposed on screen, a combination of how cameras and celluloid have been geared toward whiteness over Black skin. But “The ...

Few today would question a Black man cast as Shakespeare’s Moor in Othello, but it wasn’t always like that. There are likely many reasons fair-skinned men always got the role, one being a ...

In the movie Shaft, Richard Roundtree gave life to an alchemy of arrogance and attitude, confidence and charisma, swagger and sexuality never-before-seen on screen in a dark-skinned African ...