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

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 ...

(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 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 ...