Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lot of Americans want to lighten their skin. Skin lightening, also called whitening or bleaching, is a multibillion-dollar ...

The effects of white privilege extend well beyond racial boundaries. A new study from Villanova University found that white job interviewers viewed lighter-skinned blacks and Latinos as more ...

Topher Sanders writes about a new study that confirms that skin tone can affect how harshly black women are punished for a crime: Villanova researchers studied more than 12,000 cases of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When rapper and producer André 3000 performed at Lollapalooza back in 2014, he wore a black jumpsuit embossed with seven bold ...

Editor’s Note: Ronald E. Hall, Ph.D. is a professor at Michigan State University and the author of “The Melanin Millennium.” He has lectured on skin color both domestically and internationally, and ...

Bleach cream, used to lighten the color of one's skin, is a multibillion-dollar industry in the Indian subcontinent. It is also a testament to the sordid legacy of colorism and the damage the ideology ...

Skin lightening, also called whitening or bleaching, is a multibillion-dollar industry with products that can damage the skin and that, researchers say, promote a dangerous message about beauty and ...