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Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o is writing a children’s picture book about “colorism,” a term for favorable treatment given to people with lighter skin, based on her own childhood.
The book, Sulwe, is due in January 2019, according to the publisher, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
Sulwe is a 5-year-old girl from Kenya coming to terms with her dark skin. Nyong’o, 34, said in a statement that the book would draw on her own experiences of being “taunted” about her skin.
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