Although the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, it took more than two years for the news to reach Texas, which was still under Confederate control during the Civil War…
Inclusity Partnership with Hancock County Helps to Grow a ‘Community of Belonging’ Ohio
At Inclusity, we strongly believe in the power of inclusive communities – that's why we were excited to support Hancock County and its IDE efforts through culture assessment, consultation, and inclusion training! Inclusity conducted a series of interviews and focus...
Norman Borlaug (1914-2009)
In the United States today, the idea of “famine” is something we tend to associate with fiction and the distant past, not our own lives. News stories warn us of housing troubles, poverty and homelessness, but not of nationwide food shortages that endanger human lives....
Harvey Kurtzman (1924-1993)
It’s a sad irony of life that many people who spend their careers making others laugh have little to laugh about themselves. In recent decades many comedians have publicly discussed their struggles with depression, but the relationship between professional humor and...
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)
When we discuss the various kinds of adversity that our Achievers have had to overcome in their lives, we run the risk of overlooking one considerable advantage that many of them had in common: that of living in a society where individual rights were respected and...
Miguel Ondetti (1930-2004)
Not all the harmful prejudices that hold us back from mutual respect and cooperation are based on visually apparent traits like race or sex. The fine gradations of polite society have given most of us an abundance of criteria that we use to judge people based on their...
Don’t Miss a Connection
Inclusity starts each inclusion training session with a “connection.” This is more than just a euphemism for those (sometimes-corny) ice breaker activities that add levity to a workshop, if little substance. Often our connection exercises ask participants to...
Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927)
The turn of the 20th century was the first great era of female emancipation in the United States. For the first time in centuries, public figures encouraged women to wear clothing that facilitated movement, take healthy exercise regularly, and involve themselves in...
Ludwig Guttmann (1899-1980)
One of the greatest, yet least remarked-upon advances made by the medical profession in the 20th century was the widespread adoption of physical therapy as a means of soothing pain, rebuilding muscular strength and restoring confidence to people with disabilities. At...
Maria Callas (1923-1977)
Most of us are familiar with Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Ugly Duckling, in which a baby bird is born into a family of ducks who mock him for being ugly and clumsy, only to realize when he has grown into adulthood that he is not a duck at all, but a...
Charles and Julia Hall and Paul Héroult (1863-1914, 1859-1926, 1863-1914)
When we consider the visible Elements of Individuality that lead us to either respect others and take them seriously, or disregard them and their ideas, one that often goes overlooked is age, both apparent and real. In modern American society, as in most societies...
Louis Braille (1809-1852)
One of the greatest underappreciated advantages that most of us possess is access to the written words of others. Alphabets, printing and widespread literacy combine to let us experience times, places and sentiments other than our own and face our daily problems with...
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