by Deona Hooper, MSW Today, the United States Senate finally confirmed Chuck Hagel as the US Defense Secretary with a 58 to 41 vote after a...
by Deona Hooper, MSW One year ago, Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman while walking home from the store with a bag of...
By Deona Hooper, MSW University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has spawned a flurry of media attention after reports that a UNC rape victim is...
by Deona Hooper, MSW First Lady, Michelle Obama with some assistance from Jack Nicholas announced the winner for Best Picture at the Academy Awards 2013. At...
By: Rachel L. MSW, LMSW VAWA Passes US Senate On Tuesday, the Senate passed a bill to re-authorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) of 1994...
by Deona Hooper, MSW Oscar Pistorius, Olympic athlete known as the Blade Runner, is sitting in a South African jail awaiting a hearing after being arrested...
by Deona Hooper, MSW Former Mayor of Savannah, Georgia, Otis Johnson, will be kicking off a new lecture series hosted by Manpower Development Corp (MDC) in...
by Deona Hooper, MSW In case you missed it, Senator Dick Durbin, Democratic from Illinois, gave Wayne LaPierre the good, the bad, and the ugly in...
by Deona Hooper, MSW A media sandstorm was unleashed after Lance Armstrong did his tell all interview with Oprah on her cable network channel OWN this...
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By: Rachel L. MSW, LMSW For the first time in eighteen years, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was allowed to expire. While everyone was focusing...
by Deona Hooper, MSW Another mass shooting occurred today in Newtown, Connecticut taking the lives of 20 children and 8 adults including the principal, but how...
by Jose Raul Gonzalez, BSW Student Last Tuesday’s election losses for Republicans have been an embarrassment and their Mitt Romney “self-deportation” immigration solution. Hispanic voters, the largest...
A bill which suggests 10 years in prison for living with someone of the same sex, 10 years in prison for supporting the idea of a...
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....