Charles E. Lewis Jr., Ph.D Archive
My summer reading included Renegade for Peace and Justice, the autobiography of California Congresswoman Barbara Lee who represents the 13th Congressional District that includes Berkeley, Oakland and Alameda County. Hers is a remarkable story. She had to overcome enormous challenges—difficulties …
There were a few troubling findings in the survey of the nation’s millennial population recently released by the Institute on Politics (IOP) at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School. C-SPAN’s Washington Journal’s Monday morning segment focused on the fact that …
When you think about it, the concept of “one person, one vote” is relatively new to the American experience. It was not until 1920 that the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified giving women in the United States the …
More than 44 years have passed since President Richard Milhous Nixon declared his “war on drugs.” That battle cry was proclaimed in June 1971 following the tumultuous 1960s that saw the United States transformed in many ways. During the decade, …
Policies that exclude and deny opportunity to specific groups of Americans are always counterproductive. Ultimately, any economic gains that may accrue to one group of people from reduced competition for perceived scarcity of resources will be offset by the lack …
The Congressional Research Institute for Research and Poverty (CRISP) is partnering with the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research to host a congressional briefing on Disrupting the Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline: Juvenile Justice, Race, and Poverty that will focus on Senate …
Watching the proceedings on the floor of the House of Representatives Thursday on the occasion of the election and swearing-in of Rep. Paul Ryan (WI-) as the 54th Speaker of the House, one might be convinced that discord had been …
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is celebrating its 60th anniversary and charting a course for the next sixty years. About 150 “thought leaders” were brought together in a forum Friday to assess progress made by the social work …
The more one learns about our system of criminal justice, the more one must wonder about some of its senseless policies. That the United States incarcerates more of its citizens than any other country in the world is pretty much …
Social Workers from across the nation and the globe will gather in Denver this week for the 61st annual meeting of the Council on Social Work Education under the theme: Social Work on the Frontiers of Change acknowledging that the …
