Watch This. ‘Light Girls.’ Amber Rose Reveals Her Family Didn’t Attend Her Wedding to Wiz Khalifa Because He’s Black.

Amber Rose
(Image Credit: US Magazine.)


Like quite a few black women I’ve been on the fence about the Bill Duke documentary airing tonight on OWN, Light Girls. Will a documentary that promises to show the “other side” of colorism acknowledge the nuances and complications that privilege can add to this conversation?

In this compelling clip, model Amber Rose talks about how she was pressured to “pass” as young girl, and how her family skipped out on her wedding to Wiz Khalifa because she was marrying a black man.