Social Justice

When it comes to leading change and creating social movements, particularly when it involves people on the margins of society,...

Unfair Campaign Many of us watched, in utter astonishment, at the unfolding story of Rachel Dolezal and her misrepresentation of...

Failing to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, erasing the State's earned income tax credits for low wage working,...

Foster care alumni abandoned by the educational system often become the inmates at youth detention centers and adult prisons across...

“Stigma is a five dollar word for a two dollar concept. It’s prejudice.” Stigma, a set of negative stereotypes tied...

Obama Family leading the 50th Anniversary March- Photo Credit Whitehouse.gov   President Barack Obama, in what may be his most...

UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare Teach-In Berkeley, CA – A contingent of 60 graduate students led a teach-in and...

Dorothy Height with President Obama With Black History Month coming to a close, it is important to recognize the contributions...

Dr. Lawrence M. Berger is the 12th director of the venerable Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University...

As a group of students, staff, and faculty at the University of Utah College of Social Work, we join our...

New York- Many in the New York social work community honored the reclaiming of Dr. King’s legacy, also known as the...

Upon matriculating in medical school, students recite the Hippocratic Oath, declaring their commitment to promoting the health and well-being of...

President Ronald Reagan signing law establishing a national holiday for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as his widow Coretta Scott...

It has taken a great amount of time for me to process what has happened over the past several weeks...

Everything I say below has been said before, but I want to make it clear that mine is yet another...

In 2013, Florida lawmakers chose to implement the Normalcy Act; a law that requires their state government to allow foster...

These days it seems like there's an app for everything. If I can map my daily jog, surely I should...

In places as isolated as Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations, these satellite offices are essential to making voting a possibility...

A mother finds herself in a domestically violent relationship and she has children. Child Protective Services (CPS) becomes involved and...

Photo Courtesy Panoramio.com Sometimes social workers ask me how they can connect Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or spatial analysis to...