Vitiligo causes light or white patches to form on the skin. It can affect anyone but is often more noticeable in Black people and those with darker skin tones. This can lead to other issues, such ...

The abundance in Black skin of melanin, the pigment that gives skin its color, offers protection from damaging ultraviolet rays. That makes Black people less likely than white people to get ...

The abundance in Black skin of melanin, the pigment that gives skin its color, offers protection from damaging ultraviolet rays. That makes Black people less likely than white people to get ...

“I still get people telling me things,” she told Curry, her eyes tearing up. Vitiligo is not painful. Because it robs the skin of its protective melanin, victims have to wear SPF-100 sunscreen ...

Elizabeth Atkins is one of four female authors of the new book Other People's Skin, which explores issues of colorism — perceptions based on skin tone — within the African-American community.

For Black people, surviving skin cancer begins with knowing what to look for—and where. Hint: It often shows up where the sun doesn’t shine.

Once a person has been diagnosed with seborrheic dermatitis, they can begin treatment. There have been few studies on ideal treatments for seborrheic dermatitis on darker skin compared with white ...

The study also found that when these textbooks depicted skin cancer, they used a white model patient and only showed examples of melanomas on light skin. Louie said that Black Americans are three ...