A new study reveals that Black women are more likely than white women to die from even the most treatable types of breast cancer. Published Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the ...

The truth is that life is hard on dark skinned women and not everyone can deal with the discrimination that comes from being several tones away from what’s widely acceptable. The Nigerian obsession ...

Centuries of racism, along with the harmful strong Black woman stereotype — that Black women are more resilient and inherently stronger than white women — have had catastrophic effects on the ...

No company has had greater success peddling this message across Asia, Africa and the Middle East than Unilever’s Fair & Lovely brand, which sells millions of tubes of skin-lightening cream ...

For Black women, the process of maintaining their hair can be fraught. To tame texture or curls, many women spend long hours in a stylist’s chair or subject their hair to harsh chemical relaxers to ...

Seborrheic dermatitis is a form of eczema that affects more than 10 million people and causes flakiness, itching, irritation, ...

Healthy Black women with low risk factors were far more likely to get C-sections than white women with similar medical histories, a large new study found. By Sarah Kliff Obstetricians are more ...

This is especially significant for African American women, who are poised to suffer the worst outcomes of six-week abortion bans in places like Georgia and Texas, since Black women account for an ...

But for many Americans, particularly Black women, the reality is more sobering: the future may not be as financially secure as we hope. A new survey by BlackRock reveals a stark truth—most ...

Most people desire fairer skin, a preference that is particularly common among women. However, this obsession often leads to the use of skin lightening creams, and many fall prey to products laden ...