Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone: Why Skin Color in Hollywood Matters

From the Grio.
The most heated debate in Hollywood is over whether Latina beauty Zoey Saldana should play music legend Nina Simone in an upcoming biopic, despite the actress' lack in physical resemblance. Many black film critics and fans of Simone expressed their outrage with the reported casting of Saldana, who is much lighter in skin tone than the dark skinned Simone.
In her Op-ed for the Grio, Veronica Miller writes about ...

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