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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BRIDGEWATER — When residents Beth Ann and Kevin Bligh wanted to find a way to help others, they thought of crayons, color pencils and markers. They began sending boxes of Crayola drawing supplies with ...

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 ...

(NEW YORK) — Thanks to Crayola, children of many different backgrounds can have access to crayons that are reflective of their own skin tone. The handicraft company announced its “Colors of the World” ...

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.