Civil rights protests and the disparities revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic propelled a movement toward racial equity in 2020. Major corporations began to acknowledge that traditional diversity goals ...

Let us clear up some misconceptions on what DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is and is not. Languages are a funny thing, aren’t they? And I don’t mean funny ha-ha, I mean funny interesting. To ...

“Do you know what the trigger word down here is? ‘Equity,’” Joseph Cousins, a minister in Cherokee County, Ga., told me about a year ago. “To me, equity means fairness, compassion, goodness, honesty, ...

Less than a quarter of hospital employees can correctly define health equity, according to a recent study out of Atlanta-based Grady Health System. Researchers, led by Melissa Uehling, an MD/PhD ...

Columbia City Council voted 5-1, with Fifth Ward councilperson Donald Waterman dissenting, to keep the city’s original definition of “equity” in its strategic plan instead of omitting diversity, ...

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