Brandi Nicole McLeain. Actor 🎭. “Love is my sword and truth is my compass.” -Assata Shakur (link to Dee & Di’s Beauty Shop Premiere @/Lincoln Center 👇🏾)
You looked up a Wikipedia page before reading the book and used fan art as justification when you should’ve googled pictures of “oak brown” and then looked in the mirror.
Amandla Stenberg responds to claims she’s taking roles from dark-skinned Black women. “I would never go after a role that I didn’t feel like was right for me to chase.” and felt she fit Children of Blood and Bone because “my skin tone actually serves the story in supporting the allegory about colorism and oppression.”
i'm afraid the young black girls don't have a young, beautiful, strong, funny, motivated black tv actress to grow up watching like we did with True Jackson VP, That's So Raven, Proud Family, Sister, Sister, etc 🥺