Sentence examples for dark girls from inspiring English sources

The women in Dark Girls discuss the role melanin has played in their lives.

And "Dark Girls," from Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry, focuses on dark-skinned black women and the ways in which they are judged by their appearance.

"They had nothing but light girls, they didn't have any real dark girls there at the time," Ms. Harris said in the Harlem documentary.

Dark Girls, a 2011 documentary by American film-makers Bill Duke and D Channsin Berry, sought to rip the lid off colourism.

Framed by complicated purple and yellow blossoms, and a thousand shades of green, dark girls wrapped in exotic colours bathed babies at the water's edge.

Researching the book, she said, She went to high schools in Washington and read articles in Essence and in Vibe, she heard young black men say "the dark girls are O.K., the light-skinned girls are pretty".

"Young dark-skinned girls are still facing this horrible burden," Duke says.

"It was not uncommon for dark-skinned girls to be vilified and teased and called names like 'blick', which means 'blacker than black'".

She was also a dark-haired, dark-skinned girl surrounded by girls who, as she tells it, were all blond-haired and blue-eyed.

In one case, she said, a guest propositioned her, saying, "I see a pretty dark girl.

Ms. Boone will also be heard in Langston Hughes and Ricky Ian Gordon's "Song for a Dark Girl".