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 ...

Sarah Tishkoff Of the University of Pennsylvania led a collaborative team of researchers who have discovered key insights into the molecular basis of skin color differences among Africans. “There’s so ...

What is color-correcting makeup? “Color-correcting with makeup begins with color theory,” explains Elisa Flowers, a makeup artist based in New York City. “It starts with the rainbow color wheel that ...

(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 ...

The first Europeans looked dramatically different to many of the fair skinned populations that live there today. In fact, new ...

It is an unfortunate fact that skin color dictates alot more than how a person looks. This is especially true for countries such as the United States, where skin color is used to define race and ...

The impact of skin color in the lives of Latinos across the United States is huge. The impact of skin color in the lives of Latinos across the United States is huge. It impacts the ability to move ...

"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 ...