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What makes him stand out is that he is an albino. He says around the age of five or six he started asking his parents why he looked different. “They explained I was African-American but my skin ...
Recently theGrio sat down with a successful African-American analyst for the state of Michigan, Marlon Brown, who discusses life as an albino. The genetic condition is lack of pigmentation of the ...
Since then Rosemere, 31, has had two more albino children as well as three black kids. Here's how skin colour can change through generations. So stark is the difference between Rosemere and three ...
She is a woman of color deprived of pigment. As a black albino woman, Sara Crawford-Jones confounds strangers for not fitting neatly on the color wheel of race. "Why do you look like that?" ...
With their albino skin, working in the hot sun was dangerous ... But Harriet Muse, a poor and powerless black woman, stood up to them and took her sons home. It was, says Macy, a remarkable ...
But for two albino African American brothers in the early 1900s, the circus ran away with them. In her new book Truevine, journalist Beth Macy tells the story of George and Willie Muse ...