by Charles E Lewis Jr | Jul 3, 2026
Despite troubling policies and actions by the current administration in the White House, social workers should embrace the Declaration of Independence’s yet-unfulfilled aspirations as the nation celebrates 250 years of existence. Public opinion suggests that the...
by Charles E Lewis Jr | Jul 1, 2026
Effective today, July 1, 2026, most incoming MSW students face a new and troubling financial reality. They will no longer be eligible for federal Grad PLUS loans, which many graduate students have relied on to cover the difference between ordinary federal aid and the...
by Charles E Lewis Jr | Jun 16, 2026
What will Democrats do if they regain the levers of governmental power? Where is their governing plan? What policies, programs, and priorities will they pursue during the first two years? This is what Americans are waiting to hear. Yes, we want the MAGA regime reined...
by Charles E Lewis Jr | Jun 9, 2026
From left: CRISP Director Charles Lewis, Jr.; former Congressman Ed Towns; Mayor Karen Bass; National Catholic School of Social Service Dean Jo Ann Regan; and former NASW CEO Angelo McClain at the 2018 CRISP Awards ceremony. Karen Bass was elected to Congress in 2010,...
by Charles E Lewis Jr | Jun 2, 2026
Social workers and nurses have one month to preserve their existing access to federal graduate student loans. Under the Department of Education’s Reimagining and Improving Student Education (RISE) final rule, published on May 1 and scheduled to take effect on July 1,...
by Charles E Lewis Jr | May 17, 2026
Some of you will remember this headline as the title of a book written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the aftermath of the Montgomery boycott and March on Washington. The impetus for writing the book was the now-renowned “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” which he...
by Charles E Lewis Jr | May 11, 2026
CRISP is proud to announce that Dr. Angelique Day, our Legislative Director, has accepted an appointment at Oxford University’s Rees Center as Senior Academic Research Leader in Children’s Social Care. This is a significant professional achievement for Dr. Day, but it...
by Charles E Lewis Jr | May 3, 2026
In its decision in Louisiana v. Callais, the John Roberts-led conservative majority of the Supreme Court struck another damaging blow to fair minority representation in our fragile democracy. Born out of struggles during the Civil Rights era, when people gave their...
by Charles E Lewis Jr | May 1, 2026
In my recent commentary on Vice President Kamala Harris’s appearance on The View, I focused on what I viewed as a critical strategic misstep: her failure to differentiate herself from President Biden at a moment when voters were clearly signaling a desire for change....
by Charles E Lewis Jr | Apr 28, 2026
President Biden’s disastrous performance in the June 2024 CNN debate in Atlanta opened the door for Kamala Harris’s long-shot bid for the White House. It did not take long for her to slam the door shut on her candidacy with her ill-fated appearance on The View on...
by Charles E Lewis Jr | Apr 20, 2026
Students from National Catholic University meet with members of Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s staff. The fact that democracy enabled Donald Trump’s election as president twice does not mean that a system in which the will of the people determines leadership...
