Angelina Jolie (opens in new tab) is opening up about how racial issues have affected her daughter Zahara's post-surgery care.

In a new article in Time magazine (opens in new tab), Jolie interviewed Malone Mukwende (opens in new tab), a medical student who is working to change the way medical practices approach symptoms and illnesses for nonwhite patients. As Jolie notes in the article, Mukwende, 21, began the project after realizing that "almost all of the images and data used in its teaching were based on studies of white patients."

Mukwende's work resonates with Jolly in a very personal way. This was especially true last year when her black 16-year-old daughter Zahara (opens in new tab) underwent surgery.

"I have children from different backgrounds, and I know that when I had a rash that everyone gets, it looked very different depending on the color of their skin. But when I looked at the medical records, white skin was always the standard," Jolie explained in an interview. Recently, my daughter Zahra, whom I adopted from Ethiopia, had surgery, and afterwards the nurse told me to call her when her skin 'turned pink.'"

Mukwende responded that experiences like the one Jolie described were something he "started noticing very early on" and that it inspired his work.

"Almost the entirety of medicine is taught that way," he explained. 'I've done it that way for many years, and I still do it after all these years, so it doesn't seem like a problem. But as you have just indicated, it is a very problematic statement for some people.