What Americans Think about Poverty and How to Reduce It
The 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty attracted little attention in 2015, and the 20th anniversary of welfare ...
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Offhand Comments Can Expose Underlying Racism, UW Study Finds
Blatant racism is easy to identify — a shouted racial slur, a white supremacist rally, or the open discrimination, segregation ...
I Don’t Think I Am Racist
Donald Trump during the 2016 Presidential Campaign I can’t be a racist. Some of my best friends are African American. ...
What “Bachelor in Paradise” Can Teach Us About Working With Young Black Men
We need to look to the history of Black men in the United States in order to understand the seriousness ...
What are the Implications Behind Racial Colorblindness?
People who claim they “don’t see race” when they evaluate others may think they all have similar beliefs about racial ...
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 ...
Social Work Professor’s Research Shows Implicit Bias by Institutions
Dr. Susan McCarter, Associate Professor of Social Work, UNC Charlotte CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Susan McCarter has spent the last 20 ...
The Conversation You Need to Have With Your Children Right Now
ABC's Hit Show Blackish Tackles Police Brutality Today our screens overflow with chaos and hate. It’s hard not to feel ...
White Nationalism and The Co-Opting of Fear
It used to be easy. The label of racist, sexist, or homophobic was a silencer on the weapon of the ...
New Mobile Justice App: Because Freedom Can’t Protect Itself
It is no secret that police brutality exists and is often targeted towards minority groups particularly African American and Latino ...
Observations of a Danish Social Worker on Social Work Practice in the United States
I was working as a social worker in Denmark for some at a highly specialised university hospital until I moved ...
What Racists and Child Rape Apologists Have in Common
I remember interviewing two women back to back for a federal research project. Both women were black. They were mother ...
Co-opting Fear to Influence Policy Making and Political Discourse
The challenge in American race relations is both historically complex and steeped in a flawed rhetoric. However, there is also ...
Another Church Massacre Averted Due to Off Duty Officer in Service
Press Statement and photo released by Bishop Orrin K. Pullings On yesterday evening, after teaching and a special prayer meeting for ...
What is Identity Anyway?
If you’ve read about Caitlyn Jenner, Rachel Dolezal, or just about any story of social importance lately, you have heard ...
Why Co-opting Transracial in the Case of Rachel Dolezal is Problematic
Rachel Dolezal, a leader of the Human Rights Education Institute, stands in front of a mural she painted at the ...
America Sent the First Man to the Moon, but Can’t Track Police Killings
I started writing this article at a time when hundreds of people were taking to the streets to protest the ...
School of Social Welfare Striving to Maintain Oppression
UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare Teach-In Berkeley, CA – A contingent of 60 graduate students led a teach-in and ...
Solidarity for Racial Justice and Non-violence
As a group of students, staff, and faculty at the University of Utah College of Social Work, we join our ...
White Coats for Black Lives Launch National Organization on MLK Day
Upon matriculating in medical school, students recite the Hippocratic Oath, declaring their commitment to promoting the health and well-being of ...
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