Black Power, Black Liberation & Social Work: Back to the Beginning of the National Association of Black Social Workers – Founder Garland Jaggers, MSW & Archivist Denise McLane-Davison, PhD, AM

Episode 38
Guests: Garland Jaggers, MSW & Denise McLane-Davison, PhD, AM
Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW

Mr. Garland Jaggers, co-founder of the National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW), and Dr. Denise McLane-Davison, Associate Professor at Morgan State University and NABSW's Founding Researcher and Archivist, share the powerful history and ongoing work of NABSW. They recount the organization's founding in 1968 as a response to racism within the social work profession and their commitment to building a liberatory, Black-centered alternative. The conversation highlights NABSW's focus on developing Black practitioners and researchers, establishing its own code of ethics, and centering the Black family and community. Mr. Jaggers and Dr. Davison offer a bold vision of liberation, rooted in history and carried forward by action.

In this episode:

• The founding of NABSW in 1968 — walking out of NASW and building a Black-centered alternative
• The racism within the social work profession that made a separate organization necessary
• NABSW's work developing Black researchers and practitioners and centering Black expertise
• NABSW's own code of ethics and positions on transracial adoption and licensing
• Strengths-based, liberatory approaches centered on the Black family and community

National Association of Black Social Workers
http://www.nabsw.org/

Mr. Garland Jaggers
Email garland_jaggers@att.net
To purchase That Rare Moment in History Volumes I & II, contact Mr. Jaggers at the email above.

Dr. Denise McLane-Davison
X @DeniseDavison
Email dmclanedavison@torontomu.ca
The Strength of Black Families: The Elusive Ties of Perspective and Praxis in Social Work Education

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