Throughout history, transgender people of color have had a place of honor in many indigenous cultures around the world. The reverberations of these colonial beliefs are still felt today. In just the ...

The opinions expressed herein are the guests' alone and have not been reviewed by a WebMD physician. Women of color have special concerns when it comes to protecting the health and beauty of skin and ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As a novice teacher in 1999, I was grateful to have a colleague across the hall who was also new ...

Growing up Latina in a white community in upstate New York, Katie Caster did not have a teacher of color until high school, and she didn’t have a teacher who looked like her until she started college.

(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 ...