This year marks the 100th anniversary of Band-Aid. One appealing feature has always been the product's flesh-tone finish. But whose flesh tone? Just this year, manufacturer Johnson & Johnson decided ...

A skin-colored crayon could turn out to be just about any hue, since the world is made up of diverse shades of people. That’s exactly the point that Bellen Woodard was trying to make to her classmates ...

EASTON, Fa. – For years, children were forced to use odd colors when coloring people’s skin. Now, Crayola is releasing a new box of crayons to help kids get things right and advance inclusion. The ...

In 2019, Victor Casale got a cryptic email from Crayola asking him to work with the company on a secret project. The cosmetic chemist’s mind immediately jumped to that single pinkish crayon that has ...

Bellen Woodard was in third grade when she came home with a question. "My friends, they always called the peach crayon the skin-colored crayon," she recalled. Why? She handed over the crayon but it ...

One little girl's frustration with accurately coloring a self-portrait has helped start a local fundraising effort to provide new multicultural skin-tone crayons for Lee County schools. The GoFundMe ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The Duke Energy Foundation and New Albany Floyd County (NAFC) Schools teamed up to create a more equitable experience for students of color. On Monday, every NAFC pre-school ...

Marnie Gray’s Lake Stevens home is packed with school supplies — crayons and markers, construction paper, picture books, even bandages. A close look shows something noteworthy about all those items.

The classic “I Am Stuck On Band-Aid” commercials showed just how starkly old-fashioned beige bandages stick out on darker skin. Johnson & Johnson Ah, Twitter — where some of the worst ideas reach ...

Just a few years before the pandemic swept the globe, people were struck with yellow fever thanks to Crayola and a little color called Dandelion. The Dandelion crayon might be gone, but it's not ...