Dr. Ronald Hall’s professional career began as a clinical social worker. Subsequent to numerous clinical observations, Dr. Hall incorporated the notion of skin color, among people of color, as a critical dynamic of mental health.
Having written his dissertation on skin color, in 1990 Dr. Hall testified as expert witness to America’s first skin color discrimination case between African Americans: Morrow vs. IRS. Dr. Hall later devised the Bleaching Syndrome to explain discrimination among people of color.
Dr. Hall’s has lectured on skin color both locally and internationally including by invitation a member of the U.S. Congress and Oxford University, in Oxford, England. His most recent lecture event took place in Suriname, South America in November of 2010 where he was the keynote for a medical convention devoted to skin color. There Dr. Hall advised an organization of European doctors on the Bleaching Syndrome.
Dr. Hall’s publication works includes over 10 books on skin color and over 100 papers on same. He has been sought out for skin color commentary vis-à-vis Justice Clarence Thomas and President Barack Obama via TIME magazine and Oprah Winfrey via The Color Complex. His previous book is titled: An Historical Analysis of Skin Color Discrimination in America (2010). His forthcoming is titled: The Melanin Millennium (2012).
