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Black Lives Matter, so it is time to talk about colourism.

The recent murder of George Floyd has raised many questions about the role of celebrities and companies with regards to social justice. Colourism is the ‘preferential treatment of lighter-skinned individuals compared with their darker-skinned counterparts’. Whilst people of colour will suffer from institutional racism, darker skin individuals tend to be further discriminated due to how …