Unexamined power and privilege can harm our ability to create social good and improve society. Those effects can be particularly acute in philanthropy, when individuals who have power and privilege ...
Power is defined as the ability to direct and influence behavior, events, and allocation of resources. Privilege is a form of societal power. Specifically, privilege is a form of unearned power that ...
Perhaps you read a recent article in The New York Times that detailed a controversy at Smith College involving many of the hot-button issues of our time: race, class, power and privilege. It is a ...
Decolonize my syllabus, decolonize my curriculum, decolonize my classroom—for some time now, the term “decolonization” has been the buzzword around campus, as students and certain faculty demand ...
Sometime between the publications of the Starr Report and the Access Hollywood recordings, Americans decided that we don’t care about the character of our statesmen. This is an error, but it’s ...
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 ...
The College Curriculum Council approved a new curricular designation, “Race, Power and Privilege,” which will be implemented for courses beginning in the Summer 2022 term, according to a March 16 ...
For hundreds of years, Black men have been trying to figure out how to stay alive in this country. Black mothers and fathers have struggled for generations with the knowledge that even if their ...
The authors state "Discovery may be limited or precluded, however, when it implicates an applicable privilege. One such privilege is the legislative privilege, which protects lawmakers against ...
Last month, I saw a post on Instagram for St. Patrick’s Day where an influencer was talking about all the things she does to create her own luck, which boiled down to one thing: hard work. One of her ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about gender and diversity in the emerging world. Earlier this year, assets accumulated by U.S. foundations-organizations ...