Color struck: black people who are more interested in color than in…morality, sense of humor, or being a human.

That is how Dr. Philip M. Royster, professor of African-American studies and director of the African American Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, defines the decades-old term.

She remembers exactly how she felt that night. She looked in the mirror and wanted to cry. It was November of 2006, and Laquisha Jones had just cut off all her hair. But that’s how it had to work since she’d decided to go natural.

Listening to the media, it would seem that the entire continent of Africa is in a state of complete desperation. However, my recent stay in the rural Sand Sloot, South Africa proved otherwise. There is another side of South Africa, a side that is often overshadowed by stories of AIDS, orphans, and political corruption.