Sometimes, it’s just so much easier to explain something with a picture. This is the most commonly used graphic in the world of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) to explain the difference between ...

You might see the terms “equality” and “equity” used interchangeably, especially around conversations promoting fairness when it comes to human rights issues (like gender, race, sexual orientation) or ...

The words equality and equity often get used interchangeably, but they have quite different meanings. Equality is an objective term — it means just what it implies and there is little room for debate.

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” – Audre Lorde With the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on Affirmative Action, I am ...

I was recently asked to give the keynote address for a youth leadership conference. In the invitation, they informed me that the conference theme was inequality and that I had only 10 minutes to speak ...

On a recent episode of his cable television program, Bill Maher asked Bernie Sanders to explain the difference between equality and equity, and the long-winded senator was at an unusual loss for words ...

For the past year, the discussion of DEI within UNC System institutions has been a major topic of conversation. Rumors of removal circulated all last year, until Wednesday when the Board of Governors ...

Three people of different heights stand on identical crates to watch a baseball game from beyond the outfield wall. As the two tallest spectators gaze contentedly over the fence, the shortest slumps ...

It would have been easy for Harvard President Claudine Gay to cite Carol Swain’s scholarship in her own work (“Claudine Gay and My Scholarship,” op-ed, Dec. 18), but Ms. Gay decided not to. She ...