Welcoming Diversity

Kendal at Oberlin's Racial Equity Forum

Published: February 21, 2024 Since November 2022, when Kendal’s Racial Equity Forum was launched “to examine racism in America to forge a more equitable future,” the resident and staff initiative…

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Celebrating Pride Month and LGBTQ+ Resident Stories - Kendal at Oberlin

Published: June 20, 2023 Pride Month at Kendal at Oberlin began in early June with the life plan community receiving a national designation for being welcoming and equitable toward LGBTQ+…

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Values in Action: Welcoming Diversity

Published: July 27, 2022 Kendal at Oberlin, and Kendal Corporation’s other affiliates are independent and not part of, or sponsored by any religious or social institution, but they were founded…

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Kendal at Oberlin Earns Recognition in Long-Term Care Equality Index (LEI)

Kendal at Oberlin is happy to announce its designation as a "LGBTQ+ Long-Term Care Equality High Performer” in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and SAGE's Long-Term Care Equality Index (LEI).

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Oberlin’s Rich History of Diversity

Published: November 30, 2022   An historical marker at 73 ½ Professor Street in Oberlin describing the 1833 founding of Oberlin College and the surrounding community sets the stage: The…

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Celebrating Black History Month - 2021

Published: February 4, 2021 February has been Black History Month for a long time  –  95 years in fact. But this year the monthlong celebration is especially robust given the…

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Gay and Growing Old

Published: June 1, 2022 While the U.S. census has never measured how many LGBTQ+ people live in America, reports estimate that there are currently around 3 million LGBTQ+  adults over…

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Reading List: Learning About Racial Inequality

Published: June 9, 2020 June 9, 2020 The May 25 death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man at the hands of white police officers in Minneapolis, has prompted libraries,…

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