MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --Her photos have captured a lot of attention this year and now a Minneapolis model is called "Queen of the Dark." The image that captured so much attention was posted in March on ...
Claim to Fame: Gatwech went viral when she checked an Uber driver for asking whether or not she had ever considered bleaching her immaculate skin. When Nyakim Gatwech immigrated to the United States ...
Nyakim Gatwech is a model from South Sudan living in Minnesota. Recently on Instagram, she shared a story about her dark skin. “I was [asked by] my uber driver the other day… ‘don’t take this ...
In March, Nyakim Gatwech, a Minnesota-based Sudanese model, was sitting in an Uber on her way to a job interview in St. Paul when her driver, who she describes as a “light-skinned black man,” asked if ...
The stigma of colorism has negatively impacted the self-esteem of many young black girls and women. For one model, her dark skin helped her give birth to a thriving modeling career with a net worth of ...
This article originally appeared on HelloGiggles. With more than 130,000 followers on Instagram, South Sudanese model Nyakim Gatwech is using her platform to speak out against oppressive beauty ...
Gatwech, who was targeted in a prominent psychiatrist’s racist tweet, has built a career in the face of industry prejudice “Would he call his wife or his daughter a freak of nature?” wonders Nyakim ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Columbia University.LENS-68/Shutterstock Columbia University's psychiatry chair Dr. Jeffery ...
The head of Columbia University’s psychiatry department put his foot in his mouth and now he has been suspended. Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, who is one of the top psychiatrists in the nation, got Twitter ...