“Adventure travel is a lot like a boys club,” says Evita Robinson, founder of Nomadness Travel Tribe, an online community for travelers of color. “Actually, it’s a lot like a white boys club.” Take a peek at the marketing materials for most major outdoor sporting brands or travel brochures, and the […]

Children’s book publishers have come a long way in addressing disparities in representation, but kid lit still remains disproportionately white. Estimates suggest, for example, that only about 30% of books for young children published in the last two decades or so feature Black characters. Fortunately, there has been a flowering […]

Arden Pala wrote his first book when he was 8. Now at 11, he just published his third book, titled “The Adventures of Noah’s Flying Car Through Mexico.” The book is part of a series that celebrates diversity as it explores different countries around the world — the beauty of […]

Just weeks into COVID-19-spurred school and workplace closures last March, I began noticing a worrying trend. Upwardly mobile professionals across my social media networks were opting to pause their careers. They were overwhelmed by the new demands of their work lives and home lives. The majority of those working parents were […]