Experts and people of color weigh in on the long-term effects of colorism. "She's pretty for a dark-skin girl" is an unfortunate saying that many Black women have heard at some point in their ...

WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor Tishkoff asks the students how people classify race, and one immediately puts up his hand. His answer: skin color. “And that’s what I hear at every ...

(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.

People often don’t know exactly what boxes to tick, but they still tick them,” Jablonski pointed out. Research on skin color applies not only to federal surveys or the census but also on a more ...

"They're both of the same [race or ethnicity], but their skin color differs, and people may have different perceptions of them as a result of skin tone," said Trina Jones, a professor of law at ...

Among Africans, some people, such as the Mursi of Ethiopia, have skin that’s almost ebony, while others, such as the Khoe-San, have skin the color of copper. Many dark-skinned East Africans ...

Pulse oximeters are devices usually placed on the tip of the finger and used to measure oxygen levels in the blood, and are typically used on people experiencing ... are skin color, nail polish ...