light-skinned
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The videos show a light-skinned man wearing dark clothing, a medical mask, beanie, and at times gloves and a cross-body bag.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025
“Blood Knot,” the breakthrough play in which he found his voice as a dramatist, is about two brothers from the same mother, one dark-skinned, the other light-skinned.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2025
Morton’s privileged but stifling youth in a wealthy, light-skinned New Orleans family is sketched in a series of numbers that efficiently establish the expectations of the Creole class and his rebellions against it.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2024
The video shows Mr. Mathurin getting in the face of a shorter, light-skinned man who was standing by the apartment complex’s stairwell.
From Washington Times • Nov. 1, 2023
Ophie had been anxious before, the kind of feeling she sometimes got when Miss Anders—the nice, light-skinned teacher from up north—gave them a timed test.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
