As a diversity professional and a teacher, uncomfortable conversations are part of my job. Every day is a new opportunity to explore the words and topics that make people feel awkward, to think about ...

Privilege is such a fraught word. People can’t help but pay attention when they hear it. For many, it’s a dirty word and an even worse concept. It usually implies potentially unfair or undeserved ...

As a kid, I remember helping my aunt (also my assistant principal) prepare a bulletin board after school one day. As she squirmed in one of the desks struggling to cut some construction paper, she ...

The plight of Pierre, &c. Up north and down here, &c. 9/11 as ‘inside job,’ &c. Audio By Carbonatix In a column last Friday, I discussed “privilege,” which often means money: “She comes from privilege ...

T he newsletter seemed innocuous. In January, the chief diversity officer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine kicked off her “Monthly Diversity Digest” with a list of nearby events for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feminist scholar and anti-racism educator Peggy McIntosh famously described white privilege as an “invisible weightless knapsack ...

My college class asks what it means to be white in America — but interrogating that question as a black woman in the real world is much harder to do. Credit...Photo illustration by Najeebah Al-Ghadban ...

As much as it is discussed and debated, especially lately, there is remarkably little case law concerning “executive privilege”—the idea that there are at least some internal executive branch ...