What do you get when you search using the phrase “beautiful skin” online? Mostly white, beautiful women.

That’s one reason why a group of Twitter users started the hashtag #FlexinMyComplexion to celebrate darker skin tones. But this is the internet… so of course there was a backlash.

Video journalist: Alvaro A. Ricciardelli

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