Cultural appropriation does not exist. “Cultural appropriation” as described by Susan Scafidi, a law professor at Fordham University, is “taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural ...

Every Halloween, the phrase "cultural appropriation" comes up in conversation — so, what is that? How do we explain it to children? And how can families make sure their Halloween costumes aren't ...

The phrase “cultural appropriation” appears in many forms and many contexts. And the debates surrounding it have swelled periodically, especially in the last 20 years. But what does it really mean, ...

With a new NFL season upon us the trophy hunt begins again; but what about the league’s other trophies, the ones with a dark past that people are more reticent to discuss? Taxidermy conjures up images ...

For many Black people in the U.S., “Juneteenth,” or June 19th, has been a date that acknowledges the compound cultural trauma of generational Black enslavement in America and its extension well beyond ...

As Halloween rapidly approaches, it is time to consider safe trick-and-treating routes for the children, whether the carved pumpkin will have a happy or scary face — and if the costumes to be proudly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gwen Stefani recently came under fire for saying "I'm Japanese" in a new interview. Stefani is just one of many pop stars who have ...

Once calendars are hastily flipped to the months of March and April, predominantly white teenagers of Southern California swarm local salons to get their hair braided into cornrows, while they compile ...

I noted a recent call for a boycott of a show at the Brownsville Museum of Art on the grounds that the featured artist, an Anglo, was appropriating and exploiting Mexican themes, while many ...

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A recent article in The New York Times, “Does the Meaning of a Song Change Depending on Who Wrote It?,” by Esau McCaulley, an assistant professor of the New Testament at Wheaton College, addresses an ...

R.F. Kuang's novel offers a literary exploration of cultural appropriation taken to a new degree. Who is she? R.F. Kuang is an award-winning Chinese American author, known for her best-selling fantasy ...