In many countries, skin color can influence who is afforded the most opportunities within a society. Yaba Blay, a political science professor at North Carolina Central University, talks to host Krys Boyd about the social hierarchies associated with skin tone – and how skin bleaching, hair relaxing and other treatments are used by men and women facing discrimination.
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