Throughout history, transgender people of color have had a place of honor in many indigenous cultures around the world. The reverberations of these colonial beliefs are still felt today. In just the ...

Majorities of Latinos say discrimination is worse and getting ahead is harder for Hispanics with darker skin, but about 80 percent see themselves as having lighter skin, a Pew Research Center poll ...

The opinions expressed herein are the guests' alone and have not been reviewed by a WebMD physician. Women of color have special concerns when it comes to protecting the health and beauty of skin and ...

This article is a continuation of last week’s story that looked at the evolution of human skin color. To review, the first humans had light skin that was covered in hair all over their bodies. These ...

Growing up Latina in a white community in upstate New York, Katie Caster did not have a teacher of color until high school, and she didn’t have a teacher who looked like her until she started college.

(Special to The Root) — Skin color is one of our most important biological traits. Its many shades evolved as humans moved far and wide into regions with different intensities of sunlight. Skin color ...