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Black Americans rarely get melanoma. When they do, they are far more likely to die of it, and …
On Black skin the pimple lasts a week and the dark mark it leaves can last a year. …
A keloid is a raised scar that keeps growing after a wound has healed, spreading past the edge …
Hives that keep coming back for six weeks or more are chronic urticaria, not an allergy you can …
Vitiligo strikes all skin tones at about the same rate, but the white patches read far louder on …
That flaky, itchy scalp and the dry patches around your nose, eyebrows, or beard are usually seborrheic dermatitis, …
Melasma is the symmetric brown to gray-brown facial patching driven by sun, heat, and hormones. It is more …
Shingles is the chickenpox virus reactivating, and on deeply pigmented skin the blistering rash usually reads as gray, …
Psoriasis on Black skin rarely looks like the bright red, silvery textbook photo, so it gets called eczema, …
Rosacea is not a white-skin disease. It is a chronic inflammatory facial condition that affects Black patients too, …
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