I often tell people that when I travel abroad to Europe that I feel more comfortable and welcomed than I do in my home country. This is because Europeans, for the most part, don’t bear the scars and experiences of American racism. Not that racism doesn’t exist in...
House Bill HR 40, calling for reparations, has been introduced to every sitting Congress since 1989—where it has subsequently died in committee. It was only last summer that the 2019 edition of the bill, introduced by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, finally made it all the...
The first Women’s Rights Convention in the US took place in 1848. 75 years later, in 1923, women began the fight for an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The ERA finally passed the House of Representatives and the Senate in 1971 and ‘72 respectively. It then went out for...
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg aside, the vast majority of America’s top CEO’s have a bachelor’s degree. They likely have a graduate degree as well. Where they went to college and what they studied varies. But nearly all launched their path to the executive...
Global communities continue to struggle with the challenge of integrating new populations into their societies. And there are no signs of slowing down. The naïve expectation that cultural groups must or will assimilate and gravitate to the locally dominant cultural...
In his book, The Little Book of Restorative Justice, Howard Zehr, a leader of the Restorative Justice movement, defines it as “a process to involve those who have a stake in a specific offense and collectively identify and address harms, needs, and obligations...to...
Mindfulness is an intense awareness of what you are sensing and feeling in the moment, without interpretation or judgement. On the flip side, unconscious bias could be said to be an intense interpretation or judgement, without awareness of what or even why you are...
Interculturalists around the globe gathered in Belgium in early June for the SIETAR Europa Congress 2019 in Leuven Belgium. Executive Diversity Services President, Elmer Dixon, was once again a presenter at the conference. This year he facilitated a workshop that...
In 1987 Secretary of Labor William Brock commissioned Workforce 2000 to look at emerging population trends in the US as it moved into the 21st century. Language in the report cited that “only 15 percent of the new entrants to the labor force over the next 13 years...