Social Justice

The number of children living in extreme poverty—on $2.00 or less per person per day in a household—grew significantly from...

Like much of our nation’s civil rights history, the experiences of freedom summer of 1964 can be and have been...

By Irene M. Ota, College of Social Work and Irene H. Yoon, College of Education The unfolding events in Ferguson,...

AP Photo/Jeff Roberson The police walk toward a man with his hands raised Monday in Ferguson. I watched intently the...

As a Social Worker, I am committed to social justice. However, as I have always been on the frontline doing...

For certain subsections of society, it happens so often that its occurrence becomes commonplace such as the realities for those...

“Everybody in the Mississippi Delta was a racist, white or black. Racism was built into our bones. It is a...

By the time Norma L. McCorvey was 21, she had abused drugs and was on her third child. While carrying...

Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe is the latest in a long line of sports "stars" to come out as gay in...

A study just released in the United Kingdom, talks about repeat families within the child welfare system. Researchers from Manchester...

Recently, I have become involved in researching, understanding, and advocating against any corporate involvement in Alberta Education's curriculum redesign. As...

The end of session should be approaching soon. The evidence? The large volume of bills that were gutted, amended, and...

The Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis and the Financial Social Work Initiative at the University...

The arrest of 12 and 13 year old boys for aggravated robbery and murder respectively in West Auckland a couple of weeks...

Legislators are still going back and forth on an adjournment date, but our latest predictions are that legislators will go...

The Canadian Harm Reduction Network is a virtual meeting place for individuals and organizations committed to reducing the social, health...

I was never a good student. I didn't get along with many of my teachers and didn't take the majority...

In the wake of austerity, there appears to be a resurgence of a social work movement to address the increasing...

The Southern Coalition for Social Justice  (SCSJ) is a nonprofit dedicated to the expansion of civil rights located in Durham,...