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 ...

This article is a continuation of last week’s story that looked at the evolution of human skin color. To review, the first humans had light skin that was covered in hair all over their bodies. These ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The realities of our nation are harsh, but I truly hope young people, particularly those of color, are now ...

(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 ...

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.