The Midtown Cultural Alliance in Midtown East Manhattan hosts a second cross-organizational Open House from Thursday, March ...
There are over 150 different cultural observances in 2024. While organizations tend to recognize the traditions of the dominant culture, less attention is generally given to the holidays and ...
UC Davis Professor Beth Rose Middleton Manning, students and community leaders take part in a cultural burn at the Tending and Gathering Garden in Woodland, California in January 2020. (Alysha Beck, ...
Each human culture consists of a unique set of values, beliefs and practices. However, a common thread across cultures is the apparent importance of preserving aspects of those cultures throughout ...
When fire ravages forests, homes and lives, it can be hard to think of it as anything other than terrifying and something to be avoided at all costs. For thousands of years, Native Americans in what ...
In the early 2000s, while I was working as a curriculum designer, cultural competency specialist, trainer, and coach to support HIV/AIDS peer educators (most of whom were themselves living with ...
Cultural Emergency Response, an “ambulance” for the world, is dedicated to saving treasures from all kinds of natural and man-made disasters. By Farah Nayeri On March 11, 2022, the youth library in ...
Cultural appropriation is a hot topic that has gained significant attention in recent years, though it’s been happening for much longer. But what is cultural appropriation exactly? According to ...
Cultural appropriation can be a little tricky to understand. Even if you’re familiar with the term and know it’s something to avoid, you might have some lingering uncertainties as to where the line ...
In the scramble to understand the numerous cultural currents that are constantly running through the United States, one of the most instructive ideas to emerge in recent years has come from political ...
You have heard about the concept on the news and have no doubt seen it in print, prefaced with a hashtag: #CulturalHumility. But what exactly does it mean? Principles of cultural competence are ...