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 made her feel “weird.” Her mom suggested that next time she hand over the brown crayon, “because our skin color’s brown.” Bellen had another idea....

Many say the point of the event was to make people uncomfortable and bring about change.

Tmara Lanier has sued Harvard in an attempt to reclaim photos of her ancestors as slaves.