On patients of color, the redness of psoriasis skin lesions can appear more subtly and often presents as a purplish-gray or dark brown color, says Dr. Libby. And while the scaliness of these ...

"I was like, 'OK, she's Black. She's going to get it, right?' And so she looked at my skin and was like, 'Eh, I don't think it's psoriasis because it does not look the way that we've been taught ...

When I was seven years old, I started to get itchy, flaky, inflamed skin across 90% of my body. There was no hiding it. I was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis. Psoriasis is a chronic autoimmune ...

Though people don’t often immediately think of psoriasis when they think of skin conditions that affect Black women, it can impact not only Black women’s ability to be comfortable in their ...