This weekend a Marvel executive announced that the X-Men characters would be recast, including Alexandra Shipp's Light Skinned Storm.

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In the spirit of Dark Phoenix (also known as X-Men: Dark Phoenix, in theaters now), one of the movie’s stars, Alexandra Shipp, has solicited an amazing array of influential women taking their respective industries by storm to show their fierce side. Curated specifically for two of the hottest digital kingdoms on the net, Bossip and MadameNoire, the […]

Shipp was dragged on social media after she responded to a report that actress KiKi Layne was vying for her role in "X-Men" as Storm.

If you're waiting for Alex to step aside when it comes to certain roles to let darker Black women shine as Amandla Stenberg did, she says it's not going to happen.