Throughout 2026, the United States plans to commemorate and celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The opening stanza to that founding document: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their creator, with certain inalienable rights.” Yet, at the […]

A Scottish colleague asked us, “Why is everything being blamed on DEI and Black people?” Our answer: race has always been a tool of United States politics. This skin-color caste system was first developed in the colonies and then globally marketed to rationalize and justify intentional deep divisions in a society that proclaimed its belief […]

May 26, 2020: The First Conversation Five years ago in May, the woman on the left called the woman on the right. It was the day after the murder of George Floyd. On that day, a conversation on race began between two long-term friends (20+ years) who had never much talked about race until that […]

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What is your familiarity with the terms, "blood quantum" and "one-drop rule?"

We took the Antiracist Style Indicator (ASI) when we first began writing The Business of Race in June 2020. We didn’t know what we didn’t know. So we took a first step and then another step. Then another. Shortly into our journey, those steps led us to the ASI. And learning about redlining. The origins […]

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As organizational development consultants we know how failing to name what needs naming derails any business endeavor. That’s a certain outcome if euphemisms are applied to race talk and race work. In your business spaces we encourage you to use direct, constructive language to name what must be named, without shaming or blaming. Shared context […]

How often have we stumbled our way through a new project with cross-functional team members who use their own siloed jargon or have no context for what has come before? In business, when developing a new product, implementing new systems, or creating alignment around a marketing or investment strategy, you will get nowhere without a […]