When less melanin is produced, gray hair occurs; how much melanin the body produces is determined by genetics.
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A small amount of melanin results in blue eyes, while a medium amount means green or hazel eyes, and those with a lot of melanin are likely to have brown eyes.
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Both IPD and PPD are simply affecting your existing melanin.
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"There was less need for all that melanin," Heiting said.
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Melanin is not, at first sight, an obvious battery ingredient.
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Narrator: The more melanin you have, the darker your skin.
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I'm so grateful for the KTZ and Magic & Melanin team.
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Our bodies create two types of melanin called eumelanin and pheomelanin.
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Albino animals, in contrast, carry a mutation that inhibits melanin expression.
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First, bleach lightens the hair (melanin is removed from the shaft).
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I follow Melanin Goddess — she's from Senegal, and I think she's amazing.
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It's dipped in melanin, marinated with cellulite, and covered in stretch marks.
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"As a baby develops, more melanin accumulates in the iris," said Heiting.
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"Melanin" is the first time Nyong'o has been featured on a single.
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Her company, Magic & Melanin, organizes experiences for groups traveling in West Africa.
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"They're more noticeable since there is more melanin in their body," she says.
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Your genes determine how much melanin is in the cells in your iris.
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There are no links between melanin and intellect, physical abilities or creative skills.
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Albinism is a genetic condition that disrupts normal production of the melanin pigment.
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The mutation causes melanin, a dark pigment, to express itself as black fur.
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It would be to easy to start a line of melanin makeup. Easy!
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In the early 1960s he had drawn a black superhero named Captain Melanin.
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The more melanin you have, the darker your eyes, hair, and skin are.
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Surprisingly, people find carotenoid coloration more attractive than melanin coloration from sun exposure.
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Melanin-producing cells, called melanocytes, create not one, but two classes of melanin—pheomelanins, which produces yellow and red hair and all the pink parts of your body like your lips and your genitals, and eumelanin, which produces the darker colors.
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For people sans freckles, melanin is produced evenly throughout the skin, the video notes.
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Her blog, Melanin & Honey, focuses on Black women and non-men's experiences in Omaha.
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Blue and brown eyes both contain the same brown melanin used in this study.
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Tanning is due to the production of extra melanin pigment induced by UVA rays.
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On top of that, being a normal ingredient of bodies, melanin is not toxic.
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Besides advocating for the melanin-deficient, the site also appears to be strictly heteronormative.
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Of note: the Meitu app removes nearly all traces of melanin from ones skin.
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After lots of people objected, Adidas pulled the shoe, maybe because it lacked melanin.
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Darker hair also contains more melanin, which cocaine binds to, experts told the Associated Press.
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And when an overflow of melanin occurs, it's damn near impossible to pick a favorite.
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But as it happened, I adopted a similar attitude toward melanin as my white friends.
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There are benefits to melanin, but protection from skin cancer is not one of them.
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Melanin determines how light or dark skin appears; hemoglobin influences rosiness, and carotene influences yellowness.
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The common denominator for murderous proclivities in the former mayor's mind was coded in melanin.
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Leucism is not albinism, however: Animals with albinism produce no melanin throughout their entire bodies.
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" Singh assured her viewers that she will "throw some melanin up in your late night.
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L'Oréal's version of a lightening cream, called White Perfect, features a trademarked ingredient called 'Melanin-Vanish'.
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One characteristic of melanomas is the presence in them of particles of melanin, a dark pigment.
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There are no links between how much melanin someone has in their skin and their culture.
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If so, then melanin or something like it might find itself in very heavy demand indeed.
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There are plenty of ways to test the outer limits of one's melanin on the island.
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At these groups like Brown Girls Climb or Melanin Base Camp, I don't have to explain.
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"We're like a Woody Allen movie, with melanin," says Khalil, as the camera records it all.
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"The absence of melanin makes gray hair drier, more porous and less malleable," Mr. Gray said.
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The additional melanin protects against photo-aging and cancer, and the skin generally has greater elasticity.
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Trenou-Wells says that heritage discovery is only part of her motivation behind starting Magic & Melanin.
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So of course I would get vitiligo — a purely cosmetic condition that eats up my melanin.
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No boo needed... but whenever he decides to show up, I'll be ready with my melanin poppin'.
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Dark-skinned people need much longer exposure because of the higher levels of the protective pigment melanin.
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Click here to view original GIFThese cells were engineered to express melanin when in contact with calcium.
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Its sensors measure skin hydration, redness, and melanin and deliver wavelengths of LED light to the skin.
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But, when you've got melanin, special care must be taken to protect your skin when you shave.
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But she believed it was time for white people to reckon with their ugly fixation on melanin.
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After all, surplus melanin is all it takes to make one an enemy combatant in their reality.
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For the color red, the version of melanin is pheomelanin, and for the color black it's eumelanin.
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"It's an interaction between the amount of melanin and the architecture of the iris itself," added Heiting.
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Cannily placed bumps on its cuticle channel incident light toward melanin-rich patches primed to absorb it.
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"I wanted to make a point, that I am comfortable with my Melanin and roots," she wrote.
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Some TikTokers began discussing a Melanin Mansion for black creators, noting that Hype House is predominately white.
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Some TikTokers began discussing a Melanin Mansion for black creators, noting that Hype House is predominately white.
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They had lost their pigmentation, a result of the immune system's attacking the cells that make melanin.
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It's definitely humbling to see the excitement behind the Black Panther film and the whole melanin movement.
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This time, they're trying bold hues like magenta and fuchsia, which somehow makes melanin look even more magnificent.
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The condition—which describes a lack of melanin production—is passed down genetically from parents to their offspring.
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It's also common for people to get something called hyper-pigmentation during pregnancy due to increased melanin deposits.
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That's a period-factual detail, but couldn't Harriet's role be more than that one-sentence, melanin-focused description?
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"They think that since you have melanin in your skin, that's all the defense you need," Tang says.
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When babies are born, their eyes may sometimes appear blue early on, while their melanin is still forming.
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"As hair grays, something happens that causes this gene to produce even lower levels of melanin," Adhikari said.
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Two years later she established Melanin Base Camp, an online community for people of color in adventure sports.
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Darkness caused by excess brown pigment (melanin) can be faded with topical products or in-office chemical peels.
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"Vitamin C can reduce dark spots by minimizing the formation of excess melanin in the skin," Travis says.
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The science on green light isn't as solid, but in theory, it targets melanocytes, discouraging excess melanin production.
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It's super hot but I bear the heat because I need a tan, my melanin needs a recharge.
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At this free celebration of natural hair and black beauty, I basked in the sea of multigenerational melanin.
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The body attacks its own melanocytes, the cells that produce melanin, resulting in white patches on the body.
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At the end of the day, we're just talking about a certain amount of melanin in one's skin.
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In response, Dr. Oxman and her group have been experimenting with melanin, the natural pigment found in all six of what biologists call "the kingdoms of life" (plants, minerals, animals, bacteria and fungi); melanin is also a biomarker of evolution because it has been around since the time of the dinosaurs.
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Here's what we do know: Freckles are tiny areas of our skin made up of high concentrations of melanin.
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Humans need melanin because of its photoprotective properties that help to shield us from UV rays and free-radicals.
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This particular gene tells our cells how to make a specific protein that's involved in the production of melanin.
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Kratos, the blade wielding Spartan star of the God of War games with more grudges than melanin, is back.
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It's normal for people to experience all kinds of skin changes during pregnancy, due to fluctuating melanin-producing hormones.
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When exposed to the sun, the body produces more melanin to absorb harmful UV rays and protect skin cells.
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S-Skin is a teardrop-shaped scanner that analyzes redness, melanin levels and hydration using a built-in LED.
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The 10-minute walk serves to get my melanin levels back to Caribbean standards after a dreadful winter season.
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Until recently though, no one had tried melanin, the pigment that darkens skin and protects it against ultraviolet light.
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If melanin were to leak out of an implanted medical device, it would simply be mopped up by enzymes.
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Albinism is a genetic skin condition, present at birth, in which individuals lack the pigment melanin in their skin.
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"It's due to the amount of collagen and melanin in the skin," says skin specialist and aesthetician Bianca Estelle.
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Melanin is a sticky pigment produced by your skin that works like sunscreen, protecting the skin from UV rays.
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As a natural defense mechanism against UV rays, the body amps up melanin production, which results in brown spots.
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The amount of melanin in my skin is neither necessary nor sufficient for this: It's not a magic formula.
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There's an overpowering whiteness to the ad, with just a sprinkling of melanin here and there in the crowd scenes.
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This gene tells melanocytes to produce its namesake protein, which in turn regulates melanocyte functions like the production of melanin.
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Also, as much as we love Queen Bey, she is not the sole proprietor of the caramel range of melanin.
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The absence of melanin, which gives our skin, hair, and eyes their color, makes albino animals white with pink eyes.
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Skin-lightening creams often aim to interrupt the production of melanin or just improve the general health of the skin.
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" More significantly, the acclaimed sound mixer still considers his career to be limited by what he calls "the melanin factor.
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Previous studies have been able to distinguish different kinds of melanin and get a good idea of the animal's coloration.
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Eye color at birthHuman eye color is determined by a pigment called melanin, which is secreted by cells called melanocytes.
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Mercury, which inhibits the melanin that causes skin pigmentation, is one of the top ten chemicals of public health concern.
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Melanin-heavy skin is good at attracting algal spores, convincing them to settle out of the water onto the dark surface.
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For example, Zhao said, certain acids work particularly well for hyperpigmentation in African-American and Asian skin that has high melanin.
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"In mammals and other animals there are two types of melanin, the brownish black eumelanin and the reddish pheomelanin," Bergmann said.
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The researchers' plan was to use their spasers to do something similar to CTCs, with the spasers substituting for melanin particles.
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These traits come mainly from the way one gene controls the production of melanin, the pigments behind skin and hair color.
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To do so, the researchers had to map the chemical elements associated with the pigment melanin—the dominant pigment in animals.
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Autoimmune diseases happen when someone's immune system attacks parts of their body, like Soto's body attacks the melanin in her skin.
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Even better, she's making strides for her fellow melanin goddesses all over the world with her passionate Instagram posts and interviews.
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"The fungi collected at the accident site had more melanin than the fungi collected from outside the exclusion zone," Venkat said.
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Of course, nothing about adrenaline or DNA expression should be unique to people with high levels of melanin in their skin.
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Melanin is a pigment produced by the cells in our skin, eyes, and hair, and is responsible for giving them, well, pigment.
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Unlike freckles, lentigines appear on some people because their skin simply contains more melanocytes, which are the skin cells that produce melanin.
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That clarifying function, paired with the fact that it reduces melanin production in the skin, works to even out the overall complexion.
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Most skin-lightening treatments target the skin's ability to produce pigment, or melanin, which gives your skin, hair and eyes their color.
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Everyone has about the same number of cells to make melanin but how much you actually produce is down to your genes.
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By varying the thickness of the shell the researchers could change the density of the melanin and create a variety of colors.
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Not only that, the fermentation process produces kojic acid, an antioxidant that can penetrate down past the dermis to limit melanin production.
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Any injury to those cells, and they'll start pumping out melanin which will stain the skin, which is why less is more.
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The more melanin inside the iris, the more light is absorbed, meaning less light is reflected out, leaving the iris appearing brown.
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Many doctors believe that exposure to high levels of heat could trigger melanin production, which could lead to melasma and brown spots.
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This is due to the layer of melanin over the blue eye, which can remove some colors of light, according to CatHealth.com.
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When it comes down to it—basic sun-absorbing-melanin-science aside—I just want what feels real in this origin story.
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This gene helps regulate and produce melanin, which gives hair its color, as well as determines the color of eyes and skin.
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Ms. Postell, 26, channeled her emotions into an incisive lyrical illustration of the violence and discrimination that melanin-rich people have suffered.
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The argument is that to work in the service sector, one must have a "good presence," a quality supposedly incompatible with melanin.
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According to Opté, the lights highlight the contrast in skin melanin to detect up to three times more pigmentation than the naked eye.
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Could sea snakes be doing the same thing, using melanin-rich skin as a dumping ground for the pollutants encountered in their surroundings?
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Cleverly, the scientists also engineered the cells to produce a dark pigment, melanin, when they come into contact with especially high calcium concentrations.
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People with albinism - estimated at one in 15,000 Sub-Saharan Africans - lack melanin, which absorbs ultraviolet rays, making their skin and hair white.
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Here's what we do know about ocular melanoma: It's a type of cancer that develops in the melanin-producing cells of the eye.
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Dr. Sobel explains that an effective dark-spot remover should do two things: exfoliate the top layer of skin and inhibit melanin production.
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But more recent research has revealed that the amount of melanin we produce when we tan just isn't enough to outweigh the damage.
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Dr. Kikam explains that the condition is a broad term used to describe darkening of the skin due to the overproduction of melanin.
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Set some of that baby's melanin to working and watch it grow into a strong and responsible steward of the earth, bruh bruh.
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Melanin correlates with darker hues, so the team was able to use the distribution of melanosomes as a guide for reconstructing Psittacosaurus coloration.
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Most blacks have European ancestry and reject Afrocentric dogma that whites are melanin-deficient "ice people," lacking the ability to wholly embrace humanity.
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The mutation affected the OCA2 gene, which codes the protein necessary for producing melanin, which gives our skin, hair and eyes their color.
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That's because in the absence of the optix gene, the butterfly's scales produce melanin, a black pigment, instead of the usual chestnut coloring.
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It can also cause skin lightening by converting melanin to a lighter color and deactivating the enzyme tyrosinase, which helps produce the pigment.
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All the species showed variation in the same area, DNA that appeared to have a role in regulating genes for the pigment melanin.
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We're slowly learning to account for the ways structural racism bolsters the stereotypes attached somewhat arbitrarily to how much melanin someone's skin contains.
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When that happens, an enzyme called polyphenol oxidase, or PPO, triggers a chemical reaction that produces brown-colored melanin within just a few minutes.
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You mean to tell me that the lifestyle/beauty/fashion influencers you include in your projects cannot have over a certain amount of melanin?
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The color is caused by the accumulation of iron and melanin, the pigment in skin, particularly in parts of the body exposed to sun.
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Each of these events look like a powerful sea of melanin, and leave a current so strong every glimpse can't help but go viral.
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It displays Black men being represented in a multi-faceted, melanin filled rainbow, and I'm honored to have co-produced this book with him.
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At that time, she was one of the two "official" princesses whose melanin levels came close to that of my permanent Afro-Latina tan.
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And honestly, it's refreshing as hell to see a Black couple prospering on a show that has reserved romanced for those with less melanin.
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Four to six weeks later, you'd come into the spa for the laser treatment, which further breaks up the melanin and takes 15 minutes.
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And having more natural melanin also means that darker-skinned people tend to develop fewer wrinkles and are less at risk of skin cancer.
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So, maybe you don't necessarily need to fake a tan if you're already blessed with melanin — but everyone can score a good glow up.
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A specific type of melanin called eumelanin creates a dark skin tone; the more eumelanin your body produces, the darker your skin will be.
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Her research shows that just because your melanin is poppin' doesn't mean you're invincible to sunburn and, by extension, its potentially harmful side effects.
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Here be GMOs and dead Indians and food and water as a "secure investment" and an earthquake in Iceland and a discourse on melanin.
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They were examining skin cells in black mice for another project when they noticed macrophages scavenging the melanin released by dying, pigment-making cells.
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Ciara has leveled up once again with the release of her newest work — "Melanin," an empowering single with an inspirational message about self-love.
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It's funny, yet awkward seeing Issa Rae and crew mirror characters in a world that was so clearly melanin-deficient it's uncomfortable to watch now.
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To do so, the device uses a camera that takes 200 images per second to analyze the contrast in melanin and apply the serum accordingly.
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They're often used interchangeably, but the purpose is universal: using products or undergoing procedures to reduce the amount of melanin, or pigment, in the skin.
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Everyone who spends time in the sun without sunscreen is susceptible to sunburn, irritation, and even skin cancer — regardless of how much melanin you have.
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Their research, published Thursday in PLOS Biology, suggests a gene that regulates the natural pigment melanin also keeps our immune system from turning on itself.
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Our skin, eyes, and hair get their color from melanin, which is produced by melanocytes, cells found throughout our skin and various other body parts.
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And white consumers aren't likely to respond to a product that explicitly claims to stifle melanin production, because it's not a real concern for them.
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If you have a lot of melanin, that means your eyes are dark brown, while if you have very little, your eyes will be blue.
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As Veritasium explains, dark hair contains melanin, a pigment that helps protect us from the sun by absorbing many wavelengths of visible and ultraviolet light.
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Today he sits on the board of directors of Tyme Technologies, which is currently testing a combination therapy that includes melanin, melanotan and tyrosine isomers.
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Sometimes she pauses mid-sentence and looks briefly at the window, as if her melanin is gathering the midday winter sunlight, before continuing her thought.
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Ally told the outlet that her sons still produce melanin, showing some pigment in their skin and hair, but only at about 25 percent capacity.
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In a paper published September 15 in Science, the authors explain how melanin can be bound into "supraballs" to create the colors of the rainbow.
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"It's believed that's how blue eyes came about, but it may just be the de-emphasis on the need for all the melanin," Heiting said.
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The dark feathers — the only ones that were preserved on the fossils — were filled with melanin, the same pigment that colors our hair and skin.
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If you're reared on spicy shit and your body is capable of producing melanin, chances are your spice tolerance is higher than the average Ohioan's.
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Our latest subject, in partnership with eos, Diandra Forrest, is a model with albinism, a genetic condition in which one's skin produces significantly less melanin.
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It's allowed me to be confident with my deep melanin and my dark, glowy skin, loving both the dark tones and the bright, vibrant colors.
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After ruling out several rare forms of cancer, I landed on a plausible diagnosis: vitiligo, a condition wherein parts of the skin stop producing melanin.
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But for those of us with them, melanin will tend to cluster in little clumps that darken whenever we spend a day outside in the sun.
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Until recently, those with more melanin in their skin might have been more visible targets, but assaults on Polish people add another dimension to the story.
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Remarkably, the researchers were able to observe melanosomes—a cellular organelle that synthesizes melanin pigment—inside the feathers, suggesting these creatures had a ginger-brown coloring.
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You see, some members of the Black community have this unannounced theory that, since we're teeming with melanin, we're somehow immune to the sun's damaging effects.
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The critical factor here is melanin, which determines variation in skin tone in humans and plays a big role in the coloring of mammals and birds.
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This in turn enabled researchers to distinguish between the two types of melanin in samples, because there were subtle differences in he concentrations between the two.
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So why is it that when people with a bit more melanin in their skin decide to stage their own reenactments, it's perceived as a threat?
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" From there, hear A Chal's bilingual rhymes in "Fuego," Cities Aviv's progressive hip-hop in "Melanin Drop," and the garage-rock pleasures of Whitney's "The Falls.
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" We got our Ferris Bueller on with "House Party," and Jennifer Beals reminded us of how much melanin she had in "Devil in a Blue Dress.
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Abuot has a of high concentration of melanin in her skin, while Jordan is a black man with white skin as a result of his albinism.
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So, yeah, I'll be back in my community this holiday season at what's being called the Melanin Market, and I'll be buying black all year round.
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Melanin might provide a little more protection against UV damage, but you're mistaken if you think the color of your skin exempts you from needing sun protection.
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Despite the fact that a few recent launches missed the mark, there are products at all price points that look out for the masses blessed with melanin.
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That's why folks from regions with stronger sunlight tend to have darker colored skin—they have more sunlight to deal with, and require a stronger melanin shield.
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Mercury suppresses the production of melanin but it can also damage the kidneys and brain if it is absorbed by the skin and accumulates in the body.
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How it works: The drug "tricks the skin into producing the brown form of the pigment melanin" that, in tests on skin samples, blocked harmful UV rays.
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Based on the melanin pigment in the samples, the researchers determined that the dinosaur's skin had reddish-brown patterns that could have offered it camouflage from predators.
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The first season of the comedy was criticized for featuring barely a drop of melanin over ten episodes, despite being set in the melting pot of NYC.
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But when someone has blue eyes, they have less melanin in their iris, resulting in less light being absorbed and more light reflecting, or scattering, back out.
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Green and hazel eyes are somewhere in the middle, with differing quantities of melanin resulting in different levels of light absorption and therefore different colors reflecting out.
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Another theory conceived by professor Hans Eiberg at the University of Copenhagen was that a mutation once switched off the ability of someone's eye to produce melanin.
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We get a smorgasbord of skin and quills on the tail, and what's more, it has been analyzed for its preserved melanin, revealing its colour and patterns.
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This essentially "switched off" the ability to have brown eyes by limiting the melanin produced in the iris, and "diluting" the eye color from brown to blue.
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And another doll's curly dark hair is swept away from her face to show she has vitiligo, a condition that causes patches of skin to lose melanin.
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Whereas black or Hispanic babies have more melanin to start with and, therefore, are more likely to be born with brown eyes that won&apost change color.
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MITF not only seems to supervise the production of melanin within melanocytes, but also controls genes responsible for releasing interferons, immune proteins that help fight off viral infection.
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Under a scanning electron microscope, she discovered that this film is made of millions of microscopic melanin granules shaped like drug capsules, capped by a thin gelatinous layer.
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There are plenty of queens — including Khoudia Diop and Lupita Nyong'o — who've let us in on the brands and formulas that are a match made in melanin heaven.
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Yet, the addition of Sanaa Lathan, of the iconic Black love story Love & Basketball, was an exciting one, adding some much-needed melanin to the premium cable proceedings.
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Though my skin's melanin protects me from getting sunburned as quickly as my paler friends, it doesn't make me immune — neither from painful burns nor from skin cancer.
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Melanin-rich skin is disproportionately disposed to excess oil, hyperpigmentation, acne and eczema, so thorough research and careful label-reading is key to finding a regimen that works.
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Scientists at the University of Akron in Ohio have developed a way to use a single pigment — melanin — to create a range of usable colors, reports Science News.
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How they did it: The supraballs were made by coating nanoparticles of melanin, the same pigment that colors human skin, in a silica shell and bundling them together.
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For instance, the gene IRF4, which was associated with graying hair, is also involved in the production of melanin, the pigment that determines hair, skin, and eye color.
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It all comes down to the presence of the pigment melanin, also found in skin and hair, within your eye's iris -- the colored part that surrounds the pupil.
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You're also more likely to develop vitiligo, a condition in which some of your melanin cells stop working properly which leaves you with patches of skin without pigment.
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Sure, we all know the Superman's origin story, plucked straight from a 1930s bygone era—the same period that would present a desert walking Jesus as melanin deficient.
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The production of melanin tends to slow down around six months of age, but your baby&aposs eye color can continue to change for up to a year.
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There's a curious wrinkle in specifically why this increased shedding occurs in the stripeless, urban animals, and it helps illustrate just how advantageous this pollution-binding melanin must be.
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Because tanning increases the amount of melanin in your skin (making it a bit darker), "we used to think tanning was good and burning was bad," says Dr. Stein.
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We even have some darker melanin called neuromelanin in our brains—but that flavor isn't made by your skin's melanocyte cells, and isn't important for skin or hair color.
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A steady stream of indelible pop culture moments celebrating blackness has led some to proclaim February 33 the best #BlackHistoryMonth ever, with a melanin rainbow fistbump emoji for emphasis.
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The researchers determined that, in addition to being flush with the dark pigment melanin, the superblack body parts in both the birds and the spiders had an unusual microstructure.
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An injectable tan Another manufacturer turned to a photoprotective substance closer to home, a hormone our bodies release in response to UV radiation in order to stimulate melanin production.
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The condition, which results from genetic anomalies that block or limit an enzyme needed to produce the pigment melanin, is linked to several vision flaws and sensitivity to light.
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Side effects can include bleeding and swelling, and because tattoo-removal lasers also may target some of the melanin under the skin, darker-skinned people may experience skin-lightening.
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"So at this point in time, we are no longer going to let them utilize our melanin and utilize our ethnicities and backgrounds," Jiggetts said, according to the Daily Orange.
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Pieces on blonde, acid yellow and gold are nestled within the yellow family, for instance, while under the black subheading, the secrets of kohl, obsidian, ink and melanin are divulged.
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In some rare cases, melanin (a pigment that gives color to skin) manages to retain its organic nature over long timescales, revealing dull pigments of browns, blacks, and muddy reds.
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"I was greeted by two Caucasian women and a [Delta] flight attendant," Denmark recounted in a post on Melanin in Medicine, a blog about the experiences of doctors of color.
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The 10-month-old resident of Melbourne, Australia, was born without melanin in his skin, giving him a pure white coat, bright blue eyes, and an extreme sensitivity to sunlight.
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Just like Black women run the gamut from fair to deep, the shades of brown are equally nuanced, but there's a shade that'll look good on all levels of melanin.
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If the cast was more diverse beyond the neglected Luke and Moira, then June's transformation into a melanin-seeking missile might blend in with the background, but it's just not.
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The unofficial end of summer is Labor Day, when everyone guzzles their last beach beers and prepares for a melanin-less autumn full of work, school, and other adult obligations.
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Akihiro Yamanaka, a neuroscientist at Nagoya University in Japan, and his team stumbled across the cells, known as melanin-concentrating hormone, or M.C.H., neurons, while studying sleep regulation in mice.
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Perhaps the most common skin-care myth in the Black community is that, because we have more melanin than those with lighter skin, we're somehow impervious to the sun's harmful rays.
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According to iColour, the balm — which is applied to the skin underneath the eye, not directly in the eye — works "by inhibiting melanin production," thereby changing your eye color over time.
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Then, you'd use a topical ointment with kojic acid (which research has shown is safe in quantities under 1% for leave-on products) to break up the melanin in your skin.
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"As the melanin [in the hair] absorbs laser energy, the hair heats up to over 100 degrees Celsius, causing it to burn and vaporizing the water it contains," explains the narrator.
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Heterochromia occurs when a specific gene prevents melanin from reaching one of the eyes during development, causing one of the eyes to change to green, yellow, or brown, according to CatHealth.com.
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If I had a little more of my mother's melanin in me, though, I could see how this lack of diversity in avatars would hit me on an emotional level, too.
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The team thinks that melanin, the same dark pigment we have in our skin, helps to shield the fungi from harmful radiation and helps convert that radiation into a food source.
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In those cases, a chemical peel designed for the eye area, like the Glytone Enerpeel Eye and Lip peel, will fade excess melanin, generally in four treatments spaced a week apart.
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So, Washington would be asked to play a multitude of melanin-blessed ladies that evening (FLOTUS Obama had no regular impersonator since Maya Rudolph left in 2007) — sometimes in the same sketch.
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To show you how to do the trend four insanely cool ways, makeup artist Caitlin Wooters teamed up with Khoudia Diop, or Melanin Goddess, as she's known to her devoted Instagram fans.
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Regardless of how much melanin we have in our skin, we can develop UV-induced skin cancers and we will all eventually see the signs of photo-induced aging in the mirror.
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After years of racial myopia, our presence has seemingly been magnified, our melanin on display in split-leg gowns on red carpets, or trussed up in a suit and tie on stages.
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I've seen the they're-friends-but-are-they-really trope on TV often enough to not be triggered by it, but seeing a melanin-dosed version made it that much more personal.
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She is among the Ghanaians who have albinism, a recessive condition that drastically reduces the amount of melanin in the skin and can lead to problems like vision loss and skin cancer.
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We also showed that the gene IRF4 is involved in the greying of hair by helping to regulate the production and storage of melanin, the pigment that determines hair, skin and eye color.
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The six-minute video is dusted with images of melanin-rich people doing everything from gyrating to picking their hair -- all juxtaposed with famous works that largely reflect a white, European-elitist history.
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Dylan falls in love a lot, and Lovesick doesn't try to kid us that all his romantic history was mysteriously absent of melanin (like, say...well, a lot of shows we could name).
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Her balmy voice bounced through an auditorium packed with people whose skin glowed with the depth of different shades of melanin and whose dyed afros in varying textures bobbed along to the music.
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Anal bleaching is a non-medical procedure that involves topically applying a "blend of acids" to your skin which lessen the melanocytes, the melanin-forming cells that give your skin color, Gordon says.
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She is also busy with other projects: Melanin Base Camp, through funding from a Kickstarter campaign, is finishing a short film called "Titan Project" about Sabrina Chapman, a black climber who is Canadian.
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Because the runner didn't commit any felonies, she's able to share a really sweet detente with Jazz, where they agree they just want the same romantic opportunities as their female friends with less melanin.
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I'm particularly fascinated by the way she achieves such an exquisite intensity and range of melanin tones in a medium that has, for most of its history, been antagonistic to black and brown skin.
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While scientists have known how hair turns gray for a while—over time, humans produce less of a pigment called melanin which provides the color—there's been no evidence to explain why it happens.
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The cast of HBO's Insecure also hosted a brunch for a melanin-filled group of friends, journalists, and influencers on Saturday that was, as its creator and star Issa Rae would say, hella lit.
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In fact, up to 16 genes are thought to play a role in the amount of melanin in someone's eye, implying that the eye color trait does not follow the traditional rules of inheritance.
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It doesn't matter what your nationality is, how much melanin you have, whether you tan or burn, whether you prefer the beach or the pool — if you have skin, you need to wear sunscreen.
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This allowed their white male counterparts to continue to climb higher than was logistically possible for anyone who dared enter polite society with a uterus or a higher degree of melanin in their skin.
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At this point, it should be pretty clear our descent into nostalgia-flavored TV could already use a little — or a lot — more melanin, whether Bill Cosby dented his co-stars bank accounts or not.
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Family medicine doctor Ashley Denmark, DO similarly wrote in the blog Melanin in Medicine that the flight attendant asked two white nurses to offer a passenger medical assistance even though protocol is to enlist doctors.
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If you are black, Latinx, South Asian, or any other ethnicity that hoards that blessed melanin, here are some things you should know—before walking into any dermatologist's office—about what makes your skin different.
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Patches of darker skin on the face and around the nipples: Your body starts producing more melanin pigments that cause certain parts of your body to darken, including the skin around your eyes and nose.
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People with darker skin tone are also more at risk of vitamin D deficiency as melanin slows down skin production of vitamin D. It is estimated that about a billion peopleare deficient in the vitamin.
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Magic & Melanin — my immersion travel organization that creates ways for humans of African descent to know and return home — invites travelers to spend two weeks in Togo, Ghana and Benin and reconnect with their roots.
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If you're telling a specific story, and then you drop a person who happens to have more melanin in their skin in the middle of that story, you can't help but identify with the person.
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While both albinism and leucism share a defining lack of melanin, they differ in that vertebrates with leucism will only exhibit a partial lack of pigmentation and will retain the colored cells in their eyes.
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Instead, people of color have roots there as much as they do in the low-income neighborhoods, Texas football towns, or alienating suburbs most television teens with a certain level of melanin are usually relegated to.
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By studying the flattened carcass under an electron microscope, the study's authors, led by molecular paleobiologist Jakob Vinther of Bristol University, were able to identify patterns of "melanosomes," which are cellular carriers of the pigment melanin.
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Albinism, a genetic condition known to affect at least 8 bear species, prevents the body from producing a the normal amount of melanin – a chemical that affects the pigmentation of an animal's eyes, hair and skin.
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While high levels of melanin -- in eyes, hair, and skin -- help protect people in hotter climates, like Africa, from UV radiation, the need for the protective pigment decreases as people move to locations with less sun.
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The silver lining The name of the hair color thief is IRF4, a gene that probably acts like a cog in the machine in a cellular process that churns out melanin pigment in the hair follicle.
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The battery Dr Bettinger has come up with has a melanin cathode, an anode of sodium titanium phosphate, which is also non-toxic, and an aqueous electrolyte that can be charged with any soluble cation desired.
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The words for "octopus" (polvo) and "people" (povo) are similar in Brazilian Portuguese, and melanin is responsible for giving both mammals their coloring — the black color of octopus ink and the color variations in human skin.
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Image: Jakob Vinther, University of BristolThe researchers were able to discern the colors and shading of the dinosaur by analyzing the fossil's "melanosomes"—small structures that carry melanin pigments of the feathers and skin of many animals.
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The study: The team used a color meter to read the level of melanin in the inner-arm skin of more than 2,000 people from Ethiopia, Tanzania and Botswana and sequenced genes from almost 93,600 of them.
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"Everyone has melanin in the iris of their eye, and the amount that they have determines their eye color," said Dr. Gary Heiting, a licensed optometrist and senior editor of the eye care website All About Vision.
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"Black don't crack" is a succinct way of saying that higher concentrations of melanin provide more protection against the physical signs of aging that result from UV rays breaking down collagen and elastin, causing sagging and wrinkles.
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Leffell said that anything that turns on the body's pigmentation pathway makes him nervous, since the cells that produce melanin are also the ones that become cancerous in melanoma, a rare but dangerous form of skin cancer.
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There are just over a million sworn law enforcement officers in the United States, each existing and working somewhere on the ethical spectrum between Barney Miller and a T-800 Terminator with a melanin-based-targeting system.
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At least theoretically, the plasmid should sink into his skin, penetrate his skin cells and cause the cells to begin overexpressing the tyrosinase gene, increasing the amount of skin color-causing melanin in that one circle-shaped spot.
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A quick science lesson here: When you use a bleaching agent, it oxidizes the melanin in your hair to make it lighter, and just like oxidation isn't good for your skin, it's not great for your hair, either.
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It's a rare mutation — less than two percent of all white-tailed deer are thought to be leucistic — and the affected creatures are different from albino animals, which entirely lack melanin and have characteristic red or pink eyes.
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Rather than staining the skin with brown pigment, as self-tanners usually work, this drug actually activates the production of the dark form of the skin pigment melanin, which absorbs UV radiation and lessens damage to skin cells.
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It's set in a world where vampires exist — but white vampires, who can't go out in the daytime, are the second-class citizens of the undead, while black vampires, protected by their melanin, can roam during the day.
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On Wednesday, the Iowa congressman tweeted: "Nazi" is injected into Leftist talking points because the worn out & exhausted "racist" is over used & applied to everyone who lacks melanin & who fail to virtue signal at the requisite frequency & decibels.
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Melanocytes respond to light, and since newborns have spent the past several months in the womb, they haven&apost been exposed to much light to trigger melanin production, says Dr. Anne Negrin, an ophthalmologist in Purchase, New York.
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That's why, although Handmaid's Tale season 2 cultivates a strong physical effect — one that pulls your shoulders to your ears as if by magic and brings hands blessed with copious amounts of melanin to white knuckling — you keep watching.
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Animals with albinism -- which results in a lack of melanin, or skin pigment -- are often at greater risk from predators in the wild as they can be spotted more easily and have poorer eyesight, according to the National Geographic.
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The treatment involves an in-office mandelic acid peel, an almond extract-based peel that is purported to break down the melanin in the skin and lighten the area, followed by an at-home treatment of 2100 exfoliant pads.
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Finally, the research team tested trace metal concentrations in dark and light bands in the skins of sea kraits (a close relative) to help verify that it was melanin-loaded skin specifically that was sucking up and holding onto pollutants.
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That's because in space we have less protection against harmful space radiation like cosmic rays, so to counteract that, we may evolve ...Solomon: new types of skin pigments, like the melanin that protects our skin from ultraviolet sunlight on Earth.
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Vibe Tribe Adventures is not the only group looking to get more people of color involved in outdoor activities—Melanin Base Camp, Latino Outdoors, Brothers of Climbing and Brown Girls Climb are all groups looking to make the outdoors accessible to everyone.
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However, I do speak on the systemic problems we encounter due to the nature of white supremacy, and how I have seen them manifest for many melanated (people with melanin-rich skin) non-men who live and work in this small city.
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While the answer is yes for many lasers and skin-care products, having more melanin always means you have to proceed with caution — one wrong turn with a laser can lead to a dark spot that can take months or years to erase.
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My English-Irish parents never explained why I didn't look like them except to say—when pressed—that I was a brown-skinned miracle baby who had inherited her melanin and mixed-race features from ancestors rooted in the very distant past.
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For all of its flaws, and there are a few—uneven pacing, plot holes, ridiculous dialogue—Luke Cage signifies a moment in which black fans, starved and thirsty for representation, are simply ecstatic to see the fantastic come to life, adorned with melanin.
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As she explained the connection between the effects of equatorial sunlight, melanin and skin color and went on to explain how evolutionary change and geography result in various human characteristics, interest blossomed into engagement, and something magical happened: Her students began to learn.
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A team of diverse engineers, scientists, and architects known as Hyphen Labs built functional products that hang on the walls, like sunscreen for high-melanin skin, and a ScatterViz hater-blocking visor you can see out of but others can't see in.
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Mr. Sepuya's photographs have often been categorized as "queer" (that is, within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender cosmos), but they feel more universal to me: Multifarious shades of melanin are represented, and he has included images of women in this show.
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Vibe Tribe Adventures is not the only group looking to get more people of color involved in outdoor activities—Melanin Base Camp, Latino Outdoors, Brothers of Climbing and Brown Girls Climb are all groups looking to make the outdoors accessible to everyone.
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With some estimates putting the number of women in West Africa using lightening cream at 70 percent in some places, officials say they are worried there could be a sharp uptick in skin cancer because these products attack the skin's natural protective melanin.
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If you still have leftover dark spots from long-gone hormonal breakouts or an eczema flareup, it's most likely the result of melanin skin cells that are damaged or inflamed, according to Corey L. Hartman, MD, a dermatologist at Skin Wellness Center in Alabama.
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Biologists lately have identified cases of superblack coloration in birds, spiders and vipers that go far beyond the standard melanin-based pigments of a crow's plumage or a black cat's fur, and vie with lab-grown carbon nanotubes in their structural complexity and power to conquer light.
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As Nicolas Travis, skin expert and founder of skin-care brand Allies of Skin, explains, these environmental "nasties" cause inflammation, which is believed to be at the root of numerous skin issues, including breakouts, a breakdown of collagen, and excess melanin production that leads to dark spots.
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Using these products often requires exposure to hydroquinone and mercury, which are the main ingredients in most skin lightening products and disrupt or suppress the production of melanin, said Dr. Carlos Charles, a dermatologist and the founder of Derma di Colore, a practice in New York.
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SPF Though it may not be top of mind – with winter exhibiting shorter days, meaning less exposure to sunlight, and not to mention the fact that sporting built-in melanin feels like you basically have a superpower against the sun – SPF is a fundamental instrument for protecting the skin.
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It turns out that the melanin in dark pigeon feathers in urban environments may play a crucial role in binding to, concentrating, and storing toxic trace metals common in city pollution, helping to remove the compounds from inside the body, where they can build up and cause harm.
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Yet with little or no melanin - the pigment that colors eyes, hair and skin, and protects the body from harmful effects of the sun - skin cancer is a bigger threat for albinos in the Pacific region due to the sun and a lack of specialized care, such as dermatologists.
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So enamored of the image and idea of the emotionless, melanin-rich samurai with locs, her interiority becomes a nonfactor; the bad wig becomes the symptom of a greater malady, in which the political, visual weight of a black character is overemphasized while their humanity is under-considered.
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The company focuses on advancing "the type of woman who could readily and easily afford to spend over $2405,233 a year," according to Kaitlyn Borysiewicz, who wrote a critique of The Wing in April 20183 at the Melanin Collective, a website dedicated to women of color that she co-founded.
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We're living in an age where a man with even less sympathetic awareness than he has natural melanin is inching closer to the Presidency, where people who are seen as 'other' are being increasingly demonised, and the intricate stories of 'outsiders' are being swept aside in favour of fear mongering.
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"Other procedures like chemical peels do not have an end point and there is no way of knowing how deep in the skin you are causing an effect," she tells me, adding that chemical peels can cause pigment alteration in patients of color by interfering with their natural pigment—melanin.
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It has anti-inflammatory properties, so it can help with acne; it evens out skin discoloration and hyperpigmentation by inhibiting melanin synthesis through an enzyme; it helps stimulate collagen production, which helps with wrinkles and fine lines; and it brightens, so your skin will look smoother, glowy, energized, and healthy.
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"This soft, pneumatic approach is really cool, because when you think about your gastrointestinal tract and tissues, those also are kind of soft, squishy and compliant, and there's a lot of gas," said Bettinger, who leads a research group at CMU that invented an edible battery made out of melanin last year.
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"I know for a fact that I am beautiful, and what I do know for a fact is that we are spirits, at the end of the day, regardless of how much melanin we have, or how many pimples we have, or how curly or straight our hair is," she told People.
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While conversation about mental illness is still taboo for most communities around the world—and an excess of melanin can also mean an excess of shame and denial surrounding the topic—music has been long known to be a healing agent for both the listeners and for those who have the opportunity to create it.
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When you walk along British streets with plenty of melanin in your skin, people may look to slot you into a box they've already learned to use: dreadlocks tell them Jamaica; a colourful headdress makes them assume Nigeria; jeans, a puffa jacket and a beanie might make them squint further and ask where you're "really" from.
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Because the brand is geared towards darker skin tones (it even claims to be the "melanin experts" in ads) and boasts a huge celebrity roster of women of color, I was excited to connect with the owner Rachel Roff — who, I assumed based on her products and clientele and even the name of her line, was, well, Black.
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While chatting with the 19-year-old via email, she assured that imitating black women was never her intention and that since the accusations of fishing began, she's been hit with what she says are false allegations of getting frequent spray tans, taking melanin hormones, perming her hair, getting a nose job, and having lip injections.
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You, with your lizard brain fueled by fear With the anger that cycles through your body, endlessly searching for a target: You're such easy prey for white collars, who trick you to look the other way… Not at the futures they themselves stole from your children, But (over there!) at those bodies graced with more melanin.
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In recent history, the European north has been populated by a lot of folks with lighter hair and skin and blue eyes—the idea being that from an evolutionary perspective, fairer skin would help humans in colder, darker climes manufacture enough vitamin D, whereas in hotter climes peoples would need more dark melanin to protect them from the sun.
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Another brilliant piece is lenochan's "Melanin Chronicles: 'Everything My Kids Need to Know by Grade 4,'" (2016–present), which consists of an overturned shopping cart that has disgorged its items onto the floor: old leather boxing gloves and head guard, books by Ta-Nehisi Coates and historian Howard Zinn, Premium crackers in a tin, a megaphone, alphabet blocks, an old Ivory Soap package.
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Those who venture beyond her Zazzle site to the store on her personal website will be rewarded with such treasures as a miniature sculpture of an electric chair for $2,000 and a hand-sewn custom Melanin Spectrum Doll™, which comes in five different shades, to reflect the rich, beautiful tapestry of humanity in all of its five different shades.
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YG - "Still Brazy"Torso - "Reflections on a Damaged Life"A Chal - "Fuego"Cities Aviv - "Melanin Drop"Whitney - "The Falls"MeLo-X - "Wasteyout" **World Premiere** Marvel Alexander - "One Hundred Bands" **World Premiere**Marvel Alexander - "Lost My Way" **World Premiere**Marvel Alexander - "Matthew's Prayer" **World Premiere**Marvel Alexander - "Nowhere Fast" **World Premiere**Marvel Alexander - "Oh My Gosh" **World Premiere** Michael Jackson - "Dirty Diana"Pollari - "Special" ft.
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There were books like "From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun," in 1995, about a boy whose mother tells him she is gay; "Miracle's Boys," in 323, about three young brothers in Harlem, which won a Coretta Scott King Award; and "Beneath a Meth Moon," in 2012, winner of an American Library Association "Best Fiction for Young Adults" award, about a teenager's addiction and the fallout of Hurricane Katrina.
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"Glory" (2004) is an oil barrel turned into a tanning bed with fluorescent lights — a dazzling and deadpan comment on oil's links to everything from luxury to melanin and the fossil fuel industry in Africa — and "Spellbound" (2015) is a piano covered with used keys, separated from their locations and purposes, and a video that includes footage of a church in Savannah, Ga., that had breathing holes in its floorboards for escaped slaves hiding there.
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