You’ve probably heard one. You may have helped craft one. A land acknowledgment is quickly becoming de rigueur among mainstream cultural and arts institutions. An official will stand at a podium and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The dedication of the Obama Presidential Center on Chicago's South Side this past Thursday brought back welcome reminders of the ...

Duke Regan is only four, but he knows every single word of the Acknowledgment of Country. He learnt the words at kindergarten: "I'd like to acknowledge the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation who are ...

Some Indigenous scholars have come to regard the standard land acknowledgment as “hollow” and “not enough.” To better understand how a land acknowledgment should be folded into more comprehensive ...

In the 2019-20 school year, when students at Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University crafted and urged official passage of a statement acknowledging that the school lay on former native lands in Nashville, ...

When freshmen filed into Frost Amphitheater for convocation on Sept. 16, 2025, they heard speeches, performances and welcomes to Stanford. What they didn’t hear — though many wouldn’t have known to ...

Acknowledgment is one of those things that you don’t think about until you notice it’s missing. Last week, I had one of the worst restaurant experiences I can recall. The issue? Lack of acknowledgment ...

Whether it’s at a holiday time, or for an individual’s birthday, work anniversary, or any time.... You can always give the gift of Acknowledgment. It doesn’t matter whether you are the person’s ...