Frances Cress Welsing, American psychiatrist and author (born 1935)

Frances Luella Cress Welsing was an American psychiatrist and well-known proponent of the pseudo-scientific melanin theory. Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism , offered her interpretation of what she described as the origins of white supremacy culture. She was the author of The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors (1991).

January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 363 days remain until the end of the year.