By Mel Wilson, NASW Senior Policy Advisor Juneteenth, now a federal holiday, recognizes the day in 1865 when the last remaining enslaved people in Galveston, Texas were set free by Union troops—two whole years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves...
It’s more than a holiday – it’s a call to remember, reflect, and act
What sex are you? The answer to that question was assigned to you at birth. You did not choose it, and the answer shapes much of the course of your life.
By Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA America, seemingly suddenly, finds itself in the middle of the most existentially threatening crisis of racism and intolerance since the events leading up to and including the Civil War. As was the case over 160 years ago, the present-day...
Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent disorders for Black young adults (ages 18 to 29) in the United States. Additionally, some Black young adults who have had encounters, directly or indirectly, with police may experience “police contact anxiety” (PCA)...
The brutal death of Tyre Nichols is a stark reality that the promise of police reform in the wake of George Floyd’s death was at best a fleeting notion.
NASW-SC) is strongly against the proposed House Bill 3515, aka the “Entrepreneur Freedom Act.” The purpose of this bill is to do away with licensure for social workers and other professions in South Carolina.
These catastrophes have now become commonplace. During 2022, there have been 617 mass shootings.