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Why I Love Karen Bass
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,...
The Clock is Ticking
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,...
Why We Can’t Wait
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...
The CRISP-Oxford Connection: Dr. Day Heads Across the Pond
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...
Where Do We Go From Here?
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...
The Real Lesson from Kamala Harris’s The View Moment
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....
How Kamala Harris Blew it on The View
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...
Is Democracy Worth the Effort? A Challenge to Social Work
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 is fatally...
Social Workers Bring the Voices of Their Communities to Congress
Scores of social workers—students, faculty, practitioners, administrators, and advocates converged on the nation’s capital last week to demonstrate the political power of social work during the month commemorating our profession. A busload of students traveled from...