Civil rights protests and the disparities revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic propelled a movement toward racial equity in 2020. Major corporations began to acknowledge that traditional diversity goals ...

It's often instructive to compare entries in older and newer versions of Black's Law Dictionary—and on subjects I work on, the older ones are usually better. An example is the entry for equity.

“Equity” comes from a Latin root meaning “fair” or ”equal.” It’s legal history started in 15th century English equity courts. “Equity” might seem like the latest buzzword when it comes to ...

If you believe that the usefulness of a definition is proportional to its simplicity and inversely proportional to its length, then the field of DEI has a clear problem. While the concept of diversity ...

Let us clear up some misconceptions on what DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is and is not. Languages are a funny thing, aren’t they? And I don’t mean funny ha-ha, I mean funny interesting. To ...

Pursuing equity—however it’s defined—has become a rallying cry for K-12 educators and advocates alike. More than half of America’s 50 million students today are nonwhite, and a growing number of them ...

Simply put, equity describes an investor's direct ownership interest in an asset, excluding all other claims. A familiar example is home equity, which is the value of your home after you subtract ...