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 ...
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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 ...
Why I Can’t Breathe
In this age of personal responsibility and expressive individualism we are witnessing a rare expression of solidarity from athletes who ...
The Underlying Racism and Inequality Behind Ferguson
It has taken a great amount of time for me to process what has happened over the past several weeks ...
Why the Grand Jury Decision in Ferguson Will Continue to Lead to Violence
Everything I say below has been said before, but I want to make it clear that mine is yet another ...
The Trayvon Martin Case Foreshadowed An Increase in Police Homicides of Minorities
With the recent decisions of no indictment involving the police officers responsible for the deaths of Mike Brown, Eric Garner, ...
What Happens When You Actually Read the Grand Jury Testimony
As a Social Worker who works in East Harlem with students who hail from all different ethnic backgrounds the current ...
Teaching for Change
Why are you a teacher, and what is the point of doing the job you do? Teachers really need to ...
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 ...
After #Ferguson: Taking a Stand in Governance
In the wake of #Ferguson, we can all agree that something needs to be done. I think we can all ...
Top 5 Reasons Social Work is Failing
Airing live on CSPAN, Dr. Steve Perry gave a searing speech on the "The Role of A Social Worker" at the ...
