America's talking about Black Betty Posters -- just ask American Urban Radio Networks! 

AURN Host and Senior Producer Betty Lee interviews Black Betty CEO Robyne Robinson about her controversial website that has folks talking about skin color and the history of advertising in America.

Black Betty Posters is a website that explores the complexity of beauty, race and the power of ad design. Ms. Robinson created the site after stumbling upon a box of vintage cosmetics labels in a retro gift store. One of the labels featured a woman with one half of her face shaded and sad, the other fair and happy. The product was called Lucky Brown Brightening Cream.

It made her think about color issues in her own family – for years, Robinson’s mother was called ‘Black Betty’, because she was darker than some of her other fair-skinned siblings. She also recalled many incidents throughout her life where people used skin color to put each other down.

Robinson researched the various companies that produced the labels – what she discovered led to an amazing website that’s got people fired up and talking about issues with deep roots in the Black community, and an opportunity to document another part of the African-American experience.

You can catch this interview on AURN’s ‘Surfin the Net’, which is fed to urban radio stations across the country. AURN currently provides over 200 weekly programs to more than 300 affiliate radio stations. American Urban Radio Networks is the only African-American owned network radio company.