If someone had said that President Donald Trump would make Democrats and left-wing acolytes hate giving native Africans aid and assistance, people would have thought they had lost their minds. But ...

Darker-skinned Hispanics said they experience more discrimination. Hispanics with darker skin report more discrimination and less access to opportunities than those with lighter complexions, according ...

"Our approach involved genome-wide association studies of skin color from more than 1,500 eastern and southern African individuals as well as scanning the genome to identify genetic variants that are ...

Ten presidential campaigns ago, in 1984, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was almost universally described by media and politicians as the first Black man to run a serious major-party campaign for ...

(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 ...

Nina Jablonski was at the helm of researching skin color evolution in the 1990s. Since then, she's worked with other scholars such as Henry Louis Gates Jr. to give young students a chance to ...