We’ve all heard it. “She’s pretty for a dark skinned girl.”  “She’s light skinned so she must be bougie.”  These are just a few of the absurd, yet frequently dished out comments about color, race and ethnicity perpetuated on a daily basis—on college campuses and beyond. ...

On May 15, First Lady Michelle Obama addressed the Class of 2011 at Spelman College, a historically black college for women in Atlanta that was one of Black Enterprise’s “Top 50 Colleges for African Americans.” Evidence of emotion and excitement about Mrs. Obama’s...