At first glance, the notion of being colorblind -- or "not seeing race"-- seems like a good thing. Relatedly, the idea of a "melting pot" society -- where we all become one -- looks like a wonderful ...

I was excited to come to Columbia after following many of my future classmates on Instagram over the summer before my first semester. From their posts, it seemed that Columbia students were ready to ...

There’s an uncomfortable scenario that keeps coming up in my journey as an entrepreneur in community media. I’ll be in a business meeting with someone and suddenly the tone shifts. They’ll say ...

In 1852, botanist Francis Guthrie noticed something peculiar as he was coloring a map of counties in England. Despite the counties’ meandering shapes and varied configurations, four colors were all he ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. Knowing that I am not a big fan of pie charts, a reader sent me a link to an ...

No matter how hard I try, I can never change my skin color. That’s true for every human on earth. If you stereotype me because I’m a brown-skinned man from Morocco, you reduce me to my skin ...

Color perception is an ancient and active philosophical problem. It’s an instance of the wider category of sensory perception, but since the color spectrum fits on a single line (unlike, say, touch ...

Last month, a nonprofit think tank published a study about the black experience in corporate America, and the results were what one might expect. Black professionals largely feel invisible, receive ...