Spiritual seekers don’t always respect boundaries and processes set by local healers, and many disregard the health risks of the psychedelic brew. This is the difference between cultural appropriation ...

I have long struggled with sharing certain elements of my culture. Whether it is a bindi at Coachella or the art of mehendi turned into summer “henna tattoos,” forms of appropriation, defined as “the ...

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 ...

One of the early stars of cinema, Al Jolson is also one of the most problematic. From an era that gave us the 1915 racist film The Birth of a Nation, a celebration of the Ku Klux Klan featuring White ...

"What respect is being paid to this very Asian drink?" That question was top of mind for Simu Liu on a recent episode of CBC's "Dragons' Den," the Canadian equivalent of "Shark Tank." The owners of a ...