getty A group of people can only be as strong and healthy as the culture in which they live. Likewise, your team will only be as strong and healthy as the culture they work in. Culture is a set of shared mindsets, values, goals, practices, and rules that the members of a society use to…
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For a variety of reasons, men in the United States report poorer health than women. Beliefs about masculinity and manhood that are deeply rooted in culture and supported by society play a role in shaping behavioral patterns in ways that have serious consequences for men’s health, according to the National Library of Medicine. Traditionally, men…
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By the standards of contemporary activist campaigns, it was an unremarkable press release. Color of Change, a racial justice group, fired off a statement last week demanding that companies stop funding politicians who restrict women’s access to abortions. Color of Change is far from the first progressive organisation to accuse businesses of hypocrisy for enabling…
(CNN) — Fatmata Binta has lived in many places throughout her life, but no matter where she is, food is always her home. Her passion for cooking began when she was just five years old. Born in Sierra Leone, West Africa, Binta grew up learning the customs of the Fulani people — one of the…
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As a holiday, Juneteenth comes around just once a year, but the Black experience deserves to be recognized and to be celebrated all year long. The Hue Society is a community-based organization dedicated to doing just that — specifically in the wine space. Founded in 2017, the Hue Society was created to increase Black, brown,…
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Allen Yamin, the council’s Communications Officer, recently wrote a research paper on the detriments of car culture in the United States and the benefits that public transportation offers. Here is the paper: In 2019, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety reported that “Over the course of the year, Americans collectively spent 70 billion hours behind…
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Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts. The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (opens in new tab) goes a step further, defining culture as shared patterns of behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs and understanding that are learned by socialization….
Mary Rice Hasson works with the Ethics and Public Policy Center and is co-founder of the Person Identity Project, an initiative that equips parents and faith-based institutions to counter gender ideology and promote the truth of the human person. She is a practicing Catholic, an attorney and mother of seven children. She frequently speaks on…
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Upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin told his fellow citizens that it had produced “a Republic, if you can keep it.” His answer contained a warning that still resonates. The continued success of America’s journey depends on our ability to settle our domestic political disagreements through dialogue rather than force. But recent trends are…
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Knowing the historical shame attached to fatness and Blackness, how could anyone look at me and think: “wow, fat, Black women have it easier?” The world has very decided views on Black women. Actually, what the world has is a set of inherent stereotypes and biases that people desperately cling to in order to maintain…
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