It is imperative for organizations to support diversity and acknowledge individuals’ differences in order to foster better morale, promote creativity and innovations, improve decision making, and ...

Three years ago, Dr. Shilo Tippett was wheeled into a St. Charles operating room, where she was scheduled to have a hysterectomy. “Everyone,” her doctor announced to the surgical team, “she wants to ...

While Hanukkah is not the most significant of Jewish holidays, its timing near Christmas makes it more noticeable to most non-Jewish Americans. This year Christmas falls during Hanukkah, the Jewish ...

Pope John Paul II’s Message for the 91st World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2005, made public today, insists on the duty of Christians to aid migrants in their struggle to integrate and to actively ...

William Robertson receives funding from The Wenner-Gren Foundation. Even among medical providers who practice some form of cultural competency – an awareness of and respect for differences across ...

When a doctor doesn't look an Asian-American patient in the eye, that might be seen as a sign of respect. But making eye contact is encouraged with black patients, according to the American Academy of ...

In the realm of multicultural team management, understanding and respecting cultural differences is paramount. Leaders must first recognize that each team member brings a unique perspective shaped by ...

The sister of Dexter Adams still finds it “difficult” thinking back to how his braid was cut and discarded last year in the garbage of an Edmonton hospital room. Kathy Charette says the ordeal has ...