| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Julianna Leung |
"AMERICA'S PEACEMAKER" NEEDS A MAKEOVER: THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE'S COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE SHOULD USE TRANSFORMATIVE MEDIATION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IN TODAY'S BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT |
2025 Journal of Dispute Resolution 100 (Summer, 2025) |
On March 7, 1965, civil rights leaders John Lewis and Hosea Williams led hundreds of people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Their goal was to march to the state capitol of Montgomery in protest of racial segregation and the suppression of African American voters. On the other side of Pettus bridge, state troopers and spectators... |
2025 |
| Ariam Kiflemariam |
"ANY BLACK MAN WILL DO": A TRANSPARENCY FRAMEWORK FOR EYEWITNESS IDENTIFICATION IN THE FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY ERA |
15 Washington Journal of Social & Environmental Justice 153 (June, 2025) |
Eyewitness misidentification has long plagued the criminal justice system. Historically and presently, Black and brown Americans are misidentified at rates multiple times higher than white Americans. The advent of facial recognition technology (FRT) has compounded these risks, introducing algorithmic biases that further entrench racial disparities... |
2025 |
| Alexander Brown |
"BIGOTS IN BLACK ROBES": LEGAL ETHICS AND JUDICIAL HATE SPEECH |
20 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 285 (2025) |
Instances of judges using, as opposed to merely mentioning, hate speech are relatively rare, but they are not unheard of. Nor are they confined to the distant past. What is more, like other forms of judicial misconduct, when judges use hate speech, this can bring the judiciary into disrepute. Judicial hate speech raises two pressing questions of... |
2025 |
| Malachi D. Crawford, PhD |
"DISPOSSESSING COPPERHOODS, BUSHWHACKERS, AND SLAVEHOLDING REBELS: AFRICAN AMERICAN TESTIMONY AND SELF-EMANCIPATION POLITICS IN CIVIL WAR BORDER STATES" |
53 Southwestern Law Review 404 (2025) |
In the fall of 1864, Private Spotswood Rice, a black soldier stationed at Benton Barracks Hospital in St. Louis, wrote to his family's owners on the subject of their cruelty in refusing to emancipate his daughters. In the process, the soldier branded the owners Copperhood [sic] and Slaveholding rebbels. One of the owners, Postmaster F. W.... |
2025 |
| Tinesha C. Zandamela |
"THERE ARE [DISABLED] BLACK PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE": AFROFUTURISM & DISABILITY LAW |
113 Georgetown Law Journal 1223 (May, 2025) |
Afrofuturism celebrates--and encourages--imagination. This Note exists to foster imagination, focusing on Blackness and disability from an Afrofuturist lens and discussing what a glorious future could look like for Black disabled people. Part I will describe and explore Afrofuturism and its role in our lives, the law, and social movements. In... |
2025 |
| Samantha Rubinstein |
"THIS AIN'T TEXAS": THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT'S ROLE IN CHALLENGING RESTRICTIONIST STATES' EXTRATERRITORIAL SURVEILLANCE OF PEOPLE SEEKING ABORTIONS AND GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE |
26 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 1341 (Symposium Issue 2025) |
Since the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade, holding that the right to choose to have an abortion is no longer constitutionally protected, twelve states have totally banned abortions and seven states have severely restricted abortions early in pregnancy. Bans on gender-affirming care have... |
2025 |
| Devin Lynn Doutaz |
A LEGAL BLACK HOLE: PRIVATE ENTITIES MINING EXTRATERRESTRIAL RESOURCES |
77 Oklahoma Law Review 487 (Winter, 2025) |
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable... |
2025 |
| Ran Xi |
A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SHEDDING SUNLIGHT ON A.I. BLACK BOXES |
53 Hofstra Law Review 441 (Winter, 2025) |
A substantial body of literature has emerged around concerns that machine learning and artificial intelligence systems are opaque, or black boxes. The black box nature of A.I.-powered services and applications has resulted in alarming risks in social life, including insecurity, mistrust, lack of accountability, and exacerbated bias and... |
2025 |
| Summer Bell |
A VICIOUS CYCLE: AN INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS OF BLACK WOMEN'S LEGAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY IN THE HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC |
39 Emory International Law Review 743 (2025) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 745 I. Black Women's Disproportionate Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Malawi and the United States. 747 A. Factors that Increase HIV/AIDS Vulnerability for Malawian Women. 747 1. Economic Vulnerability. 748 2. Commercial Sex Work. 750 3. Intimate Partner Violence.. 751 4. Cleansing Rituals that Increase HIV/AIDS... |
2025 |
| H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr, School of Law, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, Email: lovelace@law.duke.edu |
BEFORE THE MOVEMENT: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS. BY DYLAN C. PENNINGROTH. NEW YORK: W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC., 2023. 465 PP |
59 Law and Society Review 458 (June, 2025) |
In her groundbreaking article, The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past, Professor Jacquelyn Dowd Hall urged historians to challenge the narrow, master narrative of the civil rights movement. Movement histories had been too focused on the period from Brown v. Board to the Voting Rights Act, noneconomic issues, and... |
2025 |
| Caroline M. Dunn, J.D. Candidate, Class of 2026, University of New Mexico School of Law |
BEFORE THE STREETLIGHTS COME ON: BLACK AMERICA'S URGENT CALL FOR CLIMATE SOLUTIONS BY HEATHER MCTEER TONEY (BROADLEAF BOOKS, 198 PAGES; 2023) |
65 Natural Resources Journal 271 (Summer, 2025) |
Climate change is arguably one of the most pressing challenges facing our world today. Although the topic is increasingly discussed in public discourse, the complex, intersectional nature of its impacts often remain underrepresented. For some, remaining in a state of denial is easier than facing the challenges presented by climate change. For... |
2025 |
| George Ward |
BICYCLES, BLOODY KNIVES, AND BLACK BOYS |
105 Massachusetts Law Review 96 (March, 2025) |
In 2020, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) called upon the bar to eliminate racial bias in Massachusetts' criminal legal system. But police still disproportionately harass Black Bostonians and, in 2023, even the SJC failed to answer its own charge when it decided Commonwealth v. Robinson-Van Rader. True, and to the court's credit, Robinson-Van Rader... |
2025 |
| Angela Onwuachi-Willig , Anthony V. Alfieri |
BIGLAW'S RACE PROBLEM: THE BLACK CEILING: HOW RACE STILL MATTERS IN THE ELITE WORKPLACE BY KEVIN WOODSON. CHICAGO: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2023. PP. 216. $26.00 |
125 Columbia Law Review 703 (April, 2025) |
Ever since the 1970s when BigLaw firms began to hire Black lawyers into their associate ranks, these firms have wrestled with problems in both recruiting and retaining Black associates. During the ensuing decades, BigLaw firms have minimally increased the low numbers of Black attorneys who have become partners, particularly equity partners, within... |
2025 |
| Justin Sells |
BLACK AND BLUE IN "THE LAND OF THE FREE": WRONGFUL INCARCERATION AND THE UNRECTIFIED CONSTITUTIONAL INJURIES TO FAMILY INTEGRITY |
66 Boston College Law Review 2063 (June, 2025) |
Abstract: Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, courts widely recognize a wrongfully incarcerated person's right to recover against state actors who participated in procuring their wrongful incarceration. By contrast, few courts allow a child of a wrongfully incarcerated parent to recover against those same state actors for depriving the child's Fourteenth... |
2025 |
| Kamron Moghaddas |
BLACK ART IN COURT AGAIN: HOW RICO LAWS USE RAP LYRICS TO UNCONSTITUTIONALLY IMPLICATE BLACK ARTISTS IN CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS |
17 Drexel Law Review 513 (2025) |
Music is one of the oldest forms of human expression. - Justice Anthony Kennedy I always use my music as a form of artistic expression, and I see now that Black artists and rappers don't have that freedom. - Jeffery Lamar Williams (Rapper Young Thug) In the 1970s, rap music emerged as a tool for Black artists to express their life experiences.... |
2025 |
| L. Alexander Walker III |
BLACK ENGLISH FOR LAWYERS: A PRIMER |
113 California Law Review 81 (February, 2025) |
Lawyers do not know as much about Black English as they should, and people's freedom hangs in the balance. Differences between language varieties in sounds and grammar can change and have changed the outcome of cases: He at work and He be at work mean two completely different things. To reduce misinterpretation and therefore wrongful outcomes,... |
2025 |
| Regina C. Wilson |
BLACK HISTORY IS AMERICAN HISTORY |
27 Lawyers Journal 3 (21-Feb-25) |
If the title of this President's Message seems familiar, it may be because three of my predecessors have used it before. It is also a phrase frequently invoked when discussing the significance of Black History. In my February 7 President's Message, I provided some background on the origins of Black History Month. This year marks the 99th... |
2025 |
| Priya Chaudhry , Awais Arshad , ChaudhryLaw PLLC, New York, NY, 212-785-5550, Email priya@chaudhrylaw.com, Website www.chaudhrylaw.com, ChaudhryLaw PLLC, New York, NY, 212-785-5550, Email awais@chaudhrylaw.com, Website www.chaudhrylaw.com |
BLACK INNOCENCE AND WHITE ACCUSERS: WHY BLACK MEN NEED EXPERT TESTIMONY ABOUT FALSE ACCUSATIONS BY WHITE WOMEN TO GET A FAIR TRIAL |
49-DEC Champion 46 (November/December, 2025) |
It is a real calamity, in this country, for any man, guilty or not guilty, to be accused of crime, but it is an incomparably greater calamity for any colored man to be so accused. -- Frederick Douglass, speaking to an audience that included President Ulysses S. Grant A man and woman met at a conference, exchanged numbers, and quickly started... |
2025 |
| Bill Ong Hing |
BLACK MIGRANTS AND BLACK LIVES MATTER: VOICES OF TENSION, RACISM, PAN-AFRICANISM, AND PROSPECTS FOR COLLABORATION |
22 UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice 129 (January, 2025) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 130 II. Background Studies on Black Migrants and BLM. 133 III. Tensions, Misunderstandings, and Social Distance. 136 A. Ethnicity and Identity. 139 B. Economic Differences, Work Ethic, and Competition Over Resources. 146 C. Favorable Treatment of Black Migrants from White America. 149 D. Stereotypes of African... |
2025 |
| Christine M. Slaughter , Camille Burge-Hicks , Nadia E. Brown |
BLACK WOMEN ARE SUPREME: AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF BLACK WOMEN'S EVALUATIONS OF KETANJI BROWN JACKSON |
16 ConLawNOW 171 (2025) |
On February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the United States Supreme Court and fill the vacancy left by Justice Stephen Breyer. As Ketanji Brown Jackson testified at her confirmation hearing, many news outlets commented on how Black women across America saw themselves reflected in her candidacy. Although... |
2025 |
| T. Anansi Wilson |
BLACK, TRANS(GRESSIVE) LIVES: FURTIVE BLACKNESS & THE SURROUND OF EXTRALEGAL VIOLENCE |
26 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 1223 (Symposium Issue 2025) |
Introduction: A Note On Method & Framing. 1224 We Speak Their Names: A Litany for Survivance (A Red Record of the Strict Scrutiny of Black Trans Life). 1230 Islan Nettles, 21, Black Transwoman, 2013. 1231 Marco McMillian, 34, Black Gay Man, 2023. 1233 Tasiyah Siyah Woodland, 18, Black Transwoman, 2023. 1235 Ariyanna Mitchell, 17, Black Trans... |
2025 |
| John G. Browning |
BLAZING A TRAIL FOR THE NATION TO FOLLOW: MASSACHUSETTS' FIRST BLACK LAWYERS |
105 Massachusetts Law Review 76 (March, 2025) |
When Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke on the occasion of her historic confirmation as the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, she acknowledged that she stood on the shoulders of the path breakers who had gone before her. Yet while many have assumed that such early trailblazers were limited to figures like Thurgood Marshall or... |
2025 |
| Shannon MacDonald |
CHATGPT WROTE THIS TITLE: REDEFINING "HUMAN" AUTHORSHIP, THE CONTINUATION OF THE BLACK BOX PROBLEM, DEEPFAKES, AND AI-GENERATED CONTENT LIABILITY |
30 Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy 49 (2024-2025) |
The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race .. It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded. [R]obots cannot be sued, but they can cause devastating damage .. By 2025,... |
2025 |
| Colleen Campbell |
COLORISM, HEALTH JUSTICE, AND BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH |
50 Human Rights 22 (March, 2025) |
Health justice offers a theoretical framework for addressing health disparities through law and policy by responding to the structural causes of health disparities. This is a key feature of the health justice framework. Placing critical analyses of colorism in conversation with health justice, and even health law more broadly, offers space for... |
2025 |
| Karagan I. Carson |
COME AND TAKE IT: PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION IMPOSITIONS ON BLACK COMMUNITIES REGARDING UNLAWFUL CARRYING OF A WEAPON CHARGES |
27 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice 88 (2025) |
Introduction. 89 I. Historical Background. 93 A. What is Prosecutorial Discretion and Why is it Important?. 93 B. History of Firearm Offenses and Regulations in Texas. 97 C. Trends of Mass Incarceration and Harsher Sentences Imposed on Black Communities. 102 II. Analysis. 105 A. Current Practice Problems. 105 1. Unlawful Carrying of a Weapon (UCW)... |
2025 |
| Adam Gray |
COMMENT ON NESTLÉ USA, INC. v. DOE: IVORY COAST COCOA FARMING CHILD SLAVES, THE ALIEN TORT STATUTE, AND THE "CRAVEN WATCHDOG" |
22 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 209 (2025) |
Introduction. 209 Thesis. 212 Legislative and Jurisprudential History. 213 Analysis. 220 Misapplied Policy Rationale. 223 Conclusion. 227 |
2025 |
| Frank Rudy Cooper, Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA, Email: frankrudy.cooper@unlv.edu |
COUNTERING THE NEXT POLICE BIAS MOVEMENT: UNREASONABLE: BLACK LIVES, POLICE POWER, AND THE FOURTH AMENDMENT. BY DEVON W. CARBADO. NEW YORK, NY: THE NEW PRESS, 2022. ISBN 978162097 |
59 Law and Society Review 452 (June, 2025) |
The need for insightful books like Devon Carbado's Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment is seen in Max Felker-Kantor's recent review of historians' studies of policing, wherein he laments their failure to interrogate the relationship between police power and the Fourth Amendment (Felker-Kantor 2024: 4). Unreasonable... |
2025 |
| Mckenzy C. Smith |
DEFAMATION AND THE "ACTUAL MALICE" STANDARD: HAS JUSTICE BLACK'S CONCURRENCE IN NEW YORK TIMES CO. v. SULLIVAN BECOME THE REALITY OF DEFAMATION LAW? |
55 Cumberland Law Review 159 (2024-2025) |
Introduction I. Constitutionalizing Defamation A. New York Times Co. v. Sullivan B. The Expansion of Sullivan C. Limiting Sullivan II. The Actual Malice Standard in Application A. Application at the State Level B. The Cost of Application C. The Standard's Effect on Negligent Media Practices D. Application in a Changing Media Landscape III. The... |
2025 |
| Steven D. Schwinn , University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, Chicago, IL |
Did Louisiana Unlawfully Discriminate by Race in Violation of the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendment by Drawing a Second Majority-Black District in Response to a Lower Court Ruling? |
53 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 41 (6-Oct-25) |
The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana ruled that the state's congressional map likely violated the Voting Rights Act because it included just one majority-Black district. The Fifth Circuit affirmed. The state legislature then drew a new map with a second majority-Black district, Congressional District 6, or CD6. Plaintiffs... |
2025 |
| Steven D. Schwinn , University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, Chicago, IL |
Did Louisiana Violate the Equal Protection Clause When, After the Lower Courts Ruled That Its Original Congressional-District Map Violated the Voting Rights Act, It Drew a Second Majority-Black District? |
52 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 3 (24-Mar-25) |
The United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana ruled that the state's congressional map likely violated the Voting Rights Act because it included just one majority-Black district. The Fifth Circuit affirmed. The state legislature then drew a new map with a second majority-Black district, Congressional District 6 (CD6).... |
2025 |
| Rachel Still |
DISPOSABILITY AND SURVIVAL: THE LEGAL AND SOCIAL MARGINALIZATION OF BLACK TRANSWOMEN |
30 Public Interest Law Reporter 207 (Spring, 2025) |
The criminalization of Black transwomen emerges not as an incidental consequence of law but as a deliberate, structural process intertwined with a long history of racial, gendered, and class-based oppression. From the horrors of slavery to contemporary policing, the state has consistently defined and regulated Black trans bodies through a lens of... |
2025 |
| Helen Wyler , Michael Liebrenz , Margit E. Oswald |
DO BLACK AND WHITE INNOCENT MOCK SUSPECTS DIFFER IN HOW FORTHCOMING THEY ARE UNDER THE STRATEGIC USE OF EVIDENCE TECHNIQUE? FIRST FINDINGS AND THEIR THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS |
31 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 295 (August, 2025) |
The strategic use of evidence (SUE) technique is effective in enhancing the differences between innocent and guilty mock suspects. However, research has shown that just world belief (JWB), a concept used to explain innocent suspects' forthcomingness, is lower in Black compared to White individuals. We examined whether Black and White innocent... |
2025 |
| Kevin Woodson |
DOING JUSTICE WITH EMPATHY: BLACK PROSECUTORS IN THE AGE OF MASS INCARCERATION |
93 Fordham Law Review 1297 (March, 2025) |
Introduction. 1297 I. When Prosecution Is Personal. 1301 II. Protecting Black People. 1305 III. Empathetic Leniency. 1308 IV. The Pain of Punishment. 1311 Conclusion. 1313 |
2025 |
| Paul H Robinson , Jeffrey Seaman |
DON'T BLACK LIVES MATTER? CONFRONTING THE PROBLEM OF DISPROPORTIONATE BLACK VICTIMIZATION |
53 Fordham Urban Law Journal 449 (December, 2025) |
Introduction. 450 I. The Disproportionate Criminal Victimization of Black Americans. 452 A. The Facts. 452 1. Does NCVS Data Downplay Black Victimization?. 454 2. The Undeniable Reality: A Racial Disparity in Safety and Justice. 456 B. Ignoring the Facts. 457 II. Criminal Justice Policies Allowing or Increasing the Disproportionate Victimization of... |
2025 |
| Cara McClellan |
EXISTING TOGETHER FROM THE BEGINNING: FREEDOM TO CONTRACT AND BLACK MUTUAL AID |
120 Northwestern University Law Review 97 (2025) |
Abstract--In a new wave of litigation, conservative legal organizations are attempting to rely on Reconstruction-era civil rights legislation to prevent nonprofits, charities, foundations, and other privately organized groups from engaging in race-conscious work. Unlike the Supreme Court's recent rollback of affirmative action, which dealt with... |
2025 |
| Marty Weinberg, Howard Srebnick, Jackie Perczek |
FAREWELL TO ROY BLACK |
49-OCT Champion 14 (September/October, 2025) |
On July 21, 2025, we lost Roy Black, one of the greatest criminal defense attorneys in American legal history, achieving acquittals over a span of six decades. Many of us lost a dear friend, mentor, and teacher. Roy was a noble and humble man who had an extraordinary career, defined by passion and deep purpose. As he liked to say, I am a student... |
2025 |
| Jayla Edmonds |
FIGHTING FOR BLACK WOMEN'S VIRTUES |
26 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 296 (2025) |
C1-2TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION. 296 A. The Beginning of the Over-Sexualization of Black Women. 298 B. How the Stereotype of Promiscuity Impacts Black Women Today. 301 Art and Media. 301 Lack of Protection from Sexual Violence. 302 C. America Criminalizes Black Women and Girls Who Are Victims of Sexual Assault. 306 D. Behind the Prison Walls.... |
2025 |
| John G. Browning |
FORGOTTEN FIRST: MACON BOLLING ALLEN AND THE JOURNEY TO BECOMING AMERICA'S FIRST BLACK ATTORNEY |
30 National Black Law Journal 1 (2025) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 1 I. Macon Bolling Allen--The Early Years in Indiana. 3 II. Becoming a Lawyer in 1844. 9 III. Why Maine?. 13 IV. An Historic Admission. 18 V. Farewell to Maine, and New Beginnings. 24 Conclusion. 28 |
2025 |
| Brenita Softley |
FROM PICKANINNY TO SUPERPREDATOR TO THE PRISON PIPELINE: THE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM'S IMMUNIZATION TO BLACK CHILDREN'S PAIN |
23 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 123 (Winter, 2025) |
As a practicing attorney, it is my hope that none of my clients experience the dehumanization of the criminal legal system. I initially thought that maybe my role as a criminal defense attorney would allow me to put on a magical cape and drape it over my clients, shielding them from whatever harm that the system throws their way. However, in my two... |
2025 |
| Rebecca E. Zietlow |
FUGITIVES FROM SLAVERY, FREE BLACK ACTIVISTS, AND THE ORIGINS OF BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP |
94 Mississippi Law Journal 1425 (2025) |
Introduction. 1426 I. Constitutional Structure and Fugitives from Slavery. 1429 II. Delany, Douglass and the Theory of Birthright Citizenship. 1432 A. Martin Delany. 1433 B. Frederick Douglass. 1435 C. Anti-Slavery Constitutionalism and Citizenship Rights. 1438 III. Black Activism for Citizenship Rights. 1440 A. Fugitives From Slavery and Free... |
2025 |
| Chaz D. Brooks |
GEN Y MORE BLACK CORPORATE DIRECTORS |
59 University of Richmond Law Review 323 (Winter, 2025) |
Corporate diversity has been in the spotlight for decades. Recent efforts have followed years of legal scholarship, arguments on the business rationale for greater diversity, and, more recently, the racial unrest during the summer of 2020. Called by some, a racial reckoning, the summer of 2020 catalyzed many corporate declarations on the... |
2025 |
| Brenden Gilbreath |
HEROES GET REMEMBERED, BUT LEGENDS NEVER DIE: PROPERLY RECOGNIZING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF NEGRO LEAGUE VETERANS |
18 Estate Planning & Community Property Law Journal 139 (Fall, 2025) |
In May 2024, Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) unveiled the Negro League Financial Assistance Plan with the stated goal of recognizing the contributions of Negro League (League) athletes to the game of baseball. The plan is designed to benefit those who played in the Leagues and are still alive.... |
2025 |
| Tsion Gurmu , Nekessa Opoti |
HOMOPHOBIA IN AFRICA AND XENOPHOBIA IN THE UNITED STATES CREATE PERILOUS CONDITIONS FOR BLACK LGBTI MIGRANTS |
50 Human Rights 18 (March, 2025) |
Respect African societies and their values. If you don't agree, let us just manage our society as we see fit. [Homosexuals] are disgusting. What sort of people are they? --Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni They're poisoning the blood of our country .. [Immigrants are] coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world. --U.S.... |
2025 |
| Charity Dera, Third Year Juris Doctor Candidate at Stetson University College of Law |
ILLUMINATING BARRIERS TO AGING IN PLACE FOR BLACK OLDER ADULTS |
46 No. 4 Bifocal 57 (March-April, 2025) |
As the years pass, the silver strands of my grandmother's hair increase at an exponential rate. Each strand on display is a micro portrait of wisdom, resilience, and undeniable love. Yet, in the aggregate, her crown of fine silver coils overwhelmingly attests to her tenure on this earth--one that has not been glamorous, but every bit worthwhile.... |
2025 |
| Shirin Bakhshay |
INCORPORATING RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INTO BLACK-LETTER CRIMINAL LAW |
73 Journal of Legal Education 987 (Summer, 2025) |
The world of criminal legal scholarship is in a period of tremendous growth and reimagining, with serious academic debates about abolition, criminal law minimalism, and reform taking center stage. But the black-letter law lags behind these theoretical, normative, and policy debates. This disconnect can leave many students, particularly those who... |
2025 |
| Brandon Hasbrouck |
INSURRECTION AND BLACK POLITICAL PARTICIPATION |
15 California Law Review Online 1 (January, 2025) |
The Reconstruction Congress envisioned a comprehensive set of rights and structural protections in the Fourteenth Amendment to establish and preserve a multiracial democracy. The Fourteenth Amendment's third section, the Insurrection Clause, may seldom have been enforced in recent memory, but it remains a vital part of the Amendment's framework.... |
2025 |
| Tierica Coleman |
INVISIBLE LINES, LASTING HARM: THE ENVIRONMENTAL COST OF REDLINING ON BLACK COMMUNITIES |
19 Southern Journal of Policy and Justice 1 (May, 2025) |
It's time to be clear about this misconception that environmental issues are incompatible with civil rights issues. The truth is that environmental issues are civil rights issues. I. Introduction II. Historical Context of Redlining and Environmental Injustice III. Theoretical Frames for Understanding Environmental Disparities A. The Weaver... |
2025 |
| Charles S. Bullock, III , Charles M. Lamb |
JIM CROW NORTH AND FAIR HOUSING ENFORCEMENT |
15 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 1193 (May, 2025) |
This article investigates how federal, state, and local government agencies enforce the federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 (also known as Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968) in Northeastern states, which are referred to here as the Jim Crow North. Focusing on data obtained from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under... |
2025 |
| The Honorable Karen L. Robinson |
JUDGE MARVIN G. WEEKS: A TRIBUTE TO ORANGE COUNTY'S FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN JUDGE |
67-FEB Orange County Lawyer 32 (February, 2025) |
I have the honor of paying tribute to Orange County's first African American judge, the late great Honorable Marvin G. Weeks, whose legacy includes a lifetime dedicated to public service. Before I begin the tribute, let me share some interesting demographic data about African American California state court judges. There are 58 counties in... |
2025 |
| Dawn Nolan |
JUSTICE AND JOY |
2025-SPG West Virginia Lawyer 44 (Spring, 2025) |
From being the first Black woman to serve as director of magistrate services at the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, to receiving a Civil Rights Champion award from the West Virginia Human Rights Commission, to starting her own law practice last year, Charleston native Olubunmi Bunmi Kusimo-Frazier is an accomplished professional. She's... |
2025 |