Delta Airlines is being sued on allegations of mistreating a disabled passenger by not providing reasonable accommodations for him to board and exit the plane. Baraka...
By Shoshannah Sayers, Deputy Director The North Carolina General Assemby recently passed a new set of voting rules that will disenfranchise an estimated 319,000 North Carolina...
If you take a drive up Hamilton between Saginaw Street and the Flint River, you could never tell that there once stood the largest employer in...
by Logan Keziah Why It Matters? Water, covers almost 3/4ths of our planet, so then why is it so precious and why is everyone so worried...
by Logan Keziah Yesterday a 15 year old boy, Tamar Boggs, and a friend rescued a kidnapped 5 year old girl in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. After hearing...
by Dr. Michael Wright The Zimmerman Verdict is not about RACE. It cannot be, and You cannot allow it to be. My point? Let’s begin by...
by Jeffrey Lee Last Thursday, House Republicans in their latest controversial vote removed the food stamp program from the farm bill. For as long as I...
The Supreme Court struck a blow to efforts preventing racial discrimination in voting as a result of Shelby v Holder coming before the high court. In...
As I scanned newspaper opinions on the recent US Supreme Court’s decision to strike down section 4 of Voting Rights Act of 1965, political columnist George...
A jolt was sent through the LGBT blogosphere when the groundbreaking lesbian blogger, Pam Spaulding, “blogmistress” of Pam’s House Blend, announced this week that after 9 years...
The United State’s system of health care continues it’s progression in providing all-inclusive services since the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. Monday, July 1st ,...
by Michael Morgan There have been some recent law enforcement moves meant to retrieve information coming from the Internet in order to prosecute people. A US...
In the wake of austerity, there appears to be a resurgence of a social work movement to address the increasing inequities being forced upon vulnerable populations....
Community organizing is even more critical after the United States Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a key provision from the Voting Rights Act of...
Since the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, a national conversation has begun on the horrors of human trafficking. However, the majority of this attention has...
by Jeffrey Lee Gun violence in America became a hot topic of discussion in our country when Adam Lanza committed the unthinkable. This single act placed...
Recently, I had the opportunity to talk with Social Work Professor Crystal Hayes about her disclosure of being sexual abused as a child in an op-ed...
On June 3, 2013, more than 150 people were arrested at the North Carolina’s State Legislature on what has been deemed “Moral Mondays”. Citizens from around...
by Vilissa Thompson It finally happened: someone has taken the time to track the usage of hate speech (which includes slurs and derogatory terms) on Twitter....
Social Work is the professional activity of helping individuals, groups, or communities enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning and creating societal conditions favorable to...
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A recent study by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers provides evidence that CD4+ T lymphocytes — immune system cells also known...
Although extreme poverty in the United States is low by global standards, the U.S. has the worst index of health...
Recently, I had the opportunity to give a webinar on disability cultural competence to social service workers, but was met...
Pediatric neurologist Jane Tavyev, MD, has advice for parents looking to help their children learn social skills after pandemic isolation....
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