How Discrimination Hurts Health and Personal Wellbeing
Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the United States has used the force of nationwide laws to prohibit discriminatory ...
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A Practical Guide on How to Confront Hate
Tina Kempin Reuter, Ph.D., director of the UAB Institute for Human Rights Photo Credit: UAB In the wake of violent ...
Black and Blue: Injustice Is Battering Us All
It is starting to feel like a domestic war is brewing. People are taking sides, dividing up into camps. Facebook ...
Honoring South African Youth Month through Social Work and Entrepreneurship
June is a special month to salute civil and human liberties -- from Juneteenth, the oldest known celebration commemorating the ...
Muhammad Ali: More than His Boxing Legacy
Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr, (later known as Muhammad Ali), was a professional boxer, American Olympian, heavyweight champion and philanthropist who ...
Potential Positive Consequences of Appointing a New Supreme Court Justice
On February 13, 2016, Chief Justice Antonin Scalia died leaving a vacant seat on the Supreme Court of the United ...
Five African American Pioneers in Social Service
Dorothy Height with President Obama With Black History Month coming to a close, it is important to recognize the contributions ...
The Struggle For American Indian Voting Rights in South Dakota
In places as isolated as Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations, these satellite offices are essential to making voting a possibility ...
Are Social Workers Helping Inmates Rot in Solitary Confinement?
As I wrote in a article several weeks ago, there are about 25,000 people held in solitary confinement in supermax prison ...
Freedom Winter: The Failure of Truth to Keep Black Men Breathing
Like much of our nation’s civil rights history, the experiences of freedom summer of 1964 can be and have been ...
A Monster At The Heart Of British Policing
I have postponed writing this piece for several months now. However as more stories emerge on an almost daily basis, ...
Do People with Disabilities Have the Right to Marry and Cohabit?
The right to marriage and cohabitation as persons with disabilities are not always granted or respected in society. I learned ...
Recidivism: Reducing Non-Compliance or Victim Blaming?
Court-mandated outpatient treatment in New York State, known as Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT), is a program designed to compel outpatient ...
NC NAACP Responds to The Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014
DURHAM - While the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP appreciates the fact that a bipartisan effort has been ...
ENDA Passes Senate
By Rachel L. West, MSW, LMSW It has been nearly 20 years in the making, but last night ENDA (S. ...
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What Feelings Are In Your Heart: An Art Therapy Exercise for Kids
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Ending the Therapeutic Relationship: Creative Termination Activities
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Ethical Dilemmas Facing Mental Health Social Workers
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Life After Addiction Treatment: How to Fill the Void During Recovery
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Why Work Requirements Will Not Improve Medicaid
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