PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — As legend has it, if a person’s skin is darker than a brown paper bag, that person was unwanted in certain — to use the term of the era — Negro circles. Decades ...

Although racial inequality is frequently studied in education, skin tone stratification has received less attention from educational researchers. Inequality by skin tone, also known as colorism, ...

African American English is an umbrella term for the many different and distinctive varieties of English used predominantly by Black Americans, including vernaculars, or the more everyday ...