By Authors: Hoge, Hayes, Hostetter, Fisher, Watson, Yearwood, Plummer, Barbera, & Washington “The key to moving forward is what we do with our discomfort. We can...
Picture a small office with three employees: Jake, a white man; Anita, a Latina woman whose husband lost his job a year ago; and Crystal, a black...
Dickinson student Leda Fisher asks the question “Should White Boys Still be Allowed to Talk?” in her opinion piece in the college’s daily news publication, The...
A text mining analysis of academic and news articles related to mental health issues in higher education finds that racism, violence and sexual assault are key...
Aldous Huxley said, “The price of liberty, and even common humanity, is eternal vigilance.” Huxley was letting us know that democracy isn’t easy. Democracy doesn’t just...
The 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty attracted little attention in 2015, and the 20th anniversary of welfare reform was barely noticed the following year....
Blatant racism is easy to identify — a shouted racial slur, a white supremacist rally, or the open discrimination, segregation and violence of the pre-civil rights...
I can’t be a racist. Some of my best friends are African American. I work with African Americans every day. As a social worker, I fight...
This season, the “Bachelor” franchise has taken on the topic of race relations in a fairly head-on fashion for mainstream television. For years, the series has been (aptly)...
People who claim they “don’t see race” when they evaluate others may think they all have similar beliefs about racial justice – but they’re very wrong,...
In the wake of violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, Tina Kempin Reuter, director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Institute for Human Rights offers some practical tips...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Susan McCarter has spent the last 20 years researching and talking about disproportionate minority contacts (DMC), or the over-representation of minority youth who...
Today our screens overflow with chaos and hate. It’s hard not to feel overwhelmed and hopeless. Now more than ever, we need to teach our children...
It used to be easy. The label of racist, sexist, or homophobic was a silencer on the weapon of the tongue. When a person stated views...
It is no secret that police brutality exists and is often targeted towards minority groups particularly African American and Latino citizens. Almost daily throughout the country,...
I was working as a social worker in Denmark for some at a highly specialised university hospital until I moved to the United States, and I...
I remember interviewing two women back to back for a federal research project. Both women were black. They were mother and daughter. They told me, a stranger,...
The challenge in American race relations is both historically complex and steeped in a flawed rhetoric. However, there is also another element–a segment of the population...
Press Statement and photo released by Bishop Orrin K. Pullings On yesterday evening, after teaching and a special prayer meeting for our brothers and sisters in Charleston,...
If you’ve read about Caitlyn Jenner, Rachel Dolezal, or just about any story of social importance lately, you have heard a lot about identity. Caitlyn Jenner...
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Conversations about police violence are happening all over the world from the killing of Mr. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Jacob...
We’re all public health nerds now, and many of us have stepped up our games when it comes to washing...
The Tourette Association of America (TAA), the premier national nonprofit organization serving the Tourette Syndrome (TS) and Tic Disorder community,...
On May 15, 2020, Rep. Karen Bass, co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth, and Rep. Gwen Moore will...