BBC OS Conversations: Colourism

BBC OS Conversations: Colourism

The issue of colourism was highlighted in a recent BBC news report about a Nigerian woman who bleached the skin of her six young children leaving them with discoloured skin, burns and scars. It is a form of racism where light skin is more highly valued than dark skin amongst people of the same ethnic group. In our conversations, we hear from women who share experiences of colourism in India including Chandana who has faced colourism from an early age. We also bring together two black women who work in the fashion and beauty industry, where appearance is everything. Beauty journalist, Ateh, shares her experiences of colourism with Nyakim, a Sudanese-American model known as Queen of the Dark after her naturally dark skin tone.

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Israel’s Unrwa ban

Israel’s Unrwa ban

What will it mean for Palestinians if Israel bans Unrwa, the UN agency that provides vital aid and essential services to millions of refugees in Gaza and the West Bank? The proposals have drawn widesp...

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BBC Trending: Passport bros

BBC Trending: Passport bros

Dating in Medellín, Colombia is being promoted to foreign men on YouTube, TikTok and other social media platforms. Lots of the videos, in English and Spanish, contain misogynistic language and suggest...

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Assignment: Death marches - uncovering the truth beneath the soil

Assignment: Death marches - uncovering the truth beneath the soil

How a town in Poland – once in Germany - is discovering its troubling past.Eighty years ago Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi extermination camp. Over 1.1 million people, ma...

21 Tammi 202529min

In the Studio: Michael Visocchi

In the Studio: Michael Visocchi

In an old schoolroom in the Scottish Highlands, sculptor Michael Visocchi is working on Commensalis, a huge work that will be installed thousands of miles away, in Grytviken, an abandoned whaling stat...

20 Tammi 202526min

The Coming Storm: Inauguration

The Coming Storm: Inauguration

America through the looking glass, a world where nothing is as it seems. Gabriel Gatehouse follows a cast of characters who have propelled Trump into the White House – twice. Many of them are now set ...

19 Tammi 202526min

The Fifth Floor: IVF and me

The Fifth Floor: IVF and me

When BBC Mundo journalist Ana Maria Roura found out she couldn't get pregnant, she decided to turn the camera on herself and document her struggle to become a parent through in vitro fertilisation, or...

18 Tammi 202526min

BBC OS Conversations: Living through the Los Angeles fires

BBC OS Conversations: Living through the Los Angeles fires

Vast areas of Los Angeles have been destroyed since these fires began on 7 January. Thousands of homes and businesses have been lost, and tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate. We h...

18 Tammi 202523min

Heart and Soul: Kaddish - why we pray for the dead

Heart and Soul: Kaddish - why we pray for the dead

Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor, once told Michael Goldfarb of people going to their deaths at Auschwitz asking who will say Kaddish for me? Kaddish is the Jewish prayer for the...

17 Tammi 202526min

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