Azealia Banks Defends Skin Bleaching, Says It Doesn’t Negate Her Past Comments About ‘Blackness in America’

by Adelle Platon

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Rapper Azealia Banks admitted to lightening her skin and defended the process of skin-bleaching. The “212” MC, who was suspended from Twitter following her controversial remarks on race in May, took to a 21-minute Facebook livestream while riding her bike on Friday (July 1).