Kerala’s top bureaucrat Sarada Muraleedharan chose to speak out strongly against those who look down upon dark-skinned people ...

the pigment that gives skin its color, offers protection from damaging ultraviolet rays. That makes Black people less likely than white people to get melanoma, the most dangerous skin cancer.

With a new generation of Thais challenging biases and redefining beauty norms, fair skin's once-unquestioned dominance appears to be fading In Thailand, one of Southeast Asia's most status-conscious ...

The new study showed that the frequency of people with dark skin was still high in parts of Europe until the Copper Age (also known as the Chalcolithic period, which started about 5,000 years ago ...