| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Dorothy Couchman |
AFFIRMING AND SUPPORTING BLACK WOMEN'S LACTATION AGENCY AS REDRESS |
60 San Diego Law Review 587 (August-September, 2023) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 588 II. Why Lactation as Redress?. 591 III. The Atrocity. 592 A. Lactation Abuse in Enslavement. 593 B. Lactation Denial During Jim Crow. 593 IV. The Harms of Lactation Agency Denial. 597 V. Atonement and Redress. 598 VI. Areas for Lactation Redress. 600 A. Lactation Agency in Perinatal Care. 600 B. Infant... |
2023 |
| Brandon Hasbrouck |
ALLOW ME TO TRANSFORM: A BLACK GUY'S GUIDE TO A NEW CONSTITUTION |
121 Michigan Law Review 883 (April, 2023) |
Allow Me to Retort: a Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution. By Elie Mystal. New York: The New Press. 2022. Pp. 270. Cloth, $25.10; paper, $17.66. What happens to a dream deferred? --Langston Hughes Constitutional law seeps into our daily lives in America. Whether it's a state legislature taking another shot at undermining civil rights or a police... |
2023 |
| Lynn Patrick Ingram |
AMERICA'S FIRST BLACK PROSECUTING ATTORNEY |
102-AUG Michigan Bar Journal 14 (July/August, 2023) |
Some stories are meant to be told. This is one of them. Late one Friday, author Nancy Vogl was doing research on Idlewild, Michigan, for a screenplay she was writing. About 10 minutes before the library closed, she stumbled upon a remarkable discovery. I opened a drawer in a file cabinet, and a file folder was sticking up that appeared to be... |
2023 |
| Legal Defense Fund |
AMICI CURIAE BRIEF OF THE NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. AND THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS |
4 North Carolina Civil Rights Law Review 43 (Fall, 2023) |
INTEREST OF AMICI CURIAE. 44 SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT. 45 ARGUMENT. 47 I. Petitioner's Reliance on Brown to Impose Race-Ignorant Admissions Contradicts the Context, Purpose, and Meaning Of That Transformative Decision. 47 A. Brown Did Not Espouse Petitioner's View of Colorblindness, Which Willfully Ignores Ongoing Racial Inequality.. 47 B. Brown and... |
2023 |
| DeShayla M. Strachan |
AMONG US: IMPOSTOR SYNDROME AND BARRIERS TO BLACK SUCCESS |
29 Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice 319 (Winter, 2023) |
Black women are going places--but they're not going into the practice of law. While law schools are becoming more diverse, the legal profession is not. The lack of diversity in the legal profession, coupled with existing implicit bias, causes heightened Impostor Syndrome in women, especially Black women, as well as women from other underrepresented... |
2023 |
| Neena Albarus |
AN OVERVIEW OF THE ONGOING LEGACIES OF COLONIALISM IN CONTEMPORARY LEGAL SYSTEMS IN THE BLACK DIASPORA |
23 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 15 (2023) |
This perspective paper explores the ongoing legacies of colonialism in contemporary legal systems and policies in the Black Diaspora. Drawing on examples from Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States, this paper argues that colonial legal systems and policies continue to shape the legal and political landscape of these regions,... |
2023 |
| Donna Kaitlyn Smith |
ANALYSIS OF STATE-BY-STATE BLACK LUNG STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM A COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER |
22 Appalachian Journal of Law 1 (2023) |
Keywords: Coal, Mining, Black Lung, STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS, Coal Miner As early as the 1840s, coal mining has been an industry that has provided energy for the country at a heavy price. This important commodity has come at the cost of coal miners' health, and in many cases, their lives. America's history of coal mine safety is gruesome to say the... |
2023 |
| Michael A. Patterson |
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ISSUES: CHALLENGING THE BLACK BOX'S OPINION |
70 Louisiana Bar Journal 258 (December, 2022/January, 2023) |
Artificial intelligence algorithms are making high-stakes decisions in many areas of our lives. They diagnose and treat patients. They decide which employee is recommended for promotion or termination. They decide if your credit qualifies you for a credit card or a mortgage. They decide who gets admitted to college. They predict whether attorneys... |
2023 |
| S. Sponte, Esq. |
BACK IN BLACK'S |
45-AUG Pennsylvania Lawyer 64 (July/August, 2023) |
Editor's Note: We are pleased to provide you with another classic from the To Wit column vault. Back in Black's originally appeared in the May/June 2012 issue of The Pennsylvania Lawyer. From time to time my body reminds me that its absolute imperviousness to illness exists only in my mind. So I am now confined to home while I recover from both... |
2023 |
| Gabriel Jack Chin , Gregory Downs , Mary Louise Frampton , Beth Rose Middleton Manning , Beth Rose Middleton Manning, Charles Petersen, Charles Reichmann, Virginia Scharff, Stacey Smith, Hosts, Panelists |
BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE: TRANSCRIPT OF THE FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR SYMPOSIUM DISCUSSING CAMPUS APPROACHES TO RACE IN TWENTIETH CENTURY WEST COAST UNIVERSITIES AND A RACIAL JUSTICE AUDIT TEMPLATE FOR UNIVERSITIES |
27 U.C. Davis Social Justice Law Review 75 (Summer, 2023) |
C1-2Table of Contents Background from the Symposium Hosts. 76 Introduction by Dean Kevin Johnson. 80 Dr. Charles Petersen, Meritocracy and Exclusion at Stanford. 81 Questions for Dr. Charles Petersen. 84 Dr. Beth Rose Middleton Manning, Moments of Reckoning: Land Grab, Naming, and Community. 86 Questions for Dr. Beth Rose Middleton Manning. 90 Dr.... |
2023 |
| Michael Z. Green |
BLACK AND BLUE POLICE ARBITRATION REFORMS |
84 Ohio State Law Journal 243 (2023) |
The racial justice protests that engulfed the country after seeing a video of the appalling killing of a Black male, George Floyd, by a Minnesota police officer in 2020 has led to a tremendous number of questions about dealing with racial issues in policing. Similar concerns arose a little more than fifty years ago when police unions gained power... |
2023 |
| Ayesha Bell Hardaway |
BLACK AND BLUE: THE INTRACTABLE PRESENCE OF RACE IN AMERICAN POLICING |
73 Case Western Reserve Law Review 607 (Spring, 2023) |
The Racial Reckoning of 2020 ignited a national conversation about the myriad structural flaws in our policing systems. This was not the first time. Modern America has experienced several waves of national discussions about policing. The first sustained wave began during the 1950s and ran through the 1960s, with Black activists and their allies... |
2023 |
| Roy L. Brooks |
BLACK BOARDING ACADEMIES AS A PRUDENTIAL REPARATION: FINIS ORIGINE PENDET |
13 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 790 (May, 2023) |
The past is never dead. It's not even past. - William Falkner, Requiem for a Nun 85 (1951) With billions of dollars pledged and trillions of dollars demanded to redress slavery and Jim Crow (Black Reparations) the question of how best to use these funds has moved into the forefront of the ongoing campaign for racial justice in our post-civil... |
2023 |
| Dylan Raymond |
BLACK BOX ALGORITHMS IN CAPITAL MARKETS: THE SINGULARITY EVENT WORTH PREVENTING |
19 Rutgers Business Law Review 41 (Fall, 2023) |
This Article challenges the assumption that the union of artificial intelligence (AI) and trading algorithms is a positive-sum game for capital markets and posits that capital market integrity is at risk from particular machine learning (ML) algorithms. Algorithms are ubiquitous and necessary for the proper functioning of modern trading... |
2023 |
| Jenae' Anderson, Zenell Brown, Viola King |
BLACK FAMILIES OVERLOOKED, MISUNDERSTOOD, AND UNDERSERVED IN THE FAMILY COURTS |
56 Family Law Quarterly 77 (2022-2023) |
Racial justice is critical to the American justice system and the mission to advance justice for all. As stakeholders examine efforts to create fairness in the justice system, it is imperative that internal standards and practices are critically examined. Implicit bias and racial inequality must be addressed before true justice reform can take... |
2023 |
| BeKura W. Shabazz , Lisa Sangoi |
BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT GROUNDS AND CENTERS US: A REFLECTION BY TWO ACTIVISTS AND LEGAL WORKERS |
34 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 122 (2023) |
Working in and around the law for the past several years, we became acutely aware of--have felt in our bones--a certain paradox in the law: how legal resources and opportunities to shape the law are completely unavailable to the vast majority of people in the United States, and yet legal structures exert an enormous, tsunami-like force on those... |
2023 |
| Erica L. Laughlin, ACBA President |
BLACK HISTORY IS AMERICAN HISTORY |
25 Lawyers Journal 3 (4/7/2023) |
I know what you're thinking. February was Black History Month. I didn't miss the memo. Black history is American history and the discussion shouldn't be limited to just one month. Beyond perhaps noticing the Black history display in Target last month, did you pay attention? Did you attend the Homer S. Brown Division's Black History Month... |
2023 |
| Kathryn G. Speckart |
BLACK LIVES MATTER AND THE PUSH FOR COLONIAL-ERA CULTURAL HERITAGE RESTITUTION |
72 Catholic University Law Review 249 (Spring, 2023) |
The influence of the Black Lives Matter movement extends into U.S. museums in the form of calls for decolonization of collections comprised of art and artifacts from Africa and other colonized areas. As a result, the accompanying legal and ethical questions surrounding these artifacts now figure prominently in the museum industry. This Comment... |
2023 |
| Chaz Arnett |
BLACK LIVES MONITORED |
69 UCLA Law Review 1384 (September, 2023) |
The police killing of George Floyd added fuel to the simmering flames of racial injustice in America following a string of similarly violent executions during a global pandemic that disproportionately ravaged the health and economic security of Black families and communities. The confluence of these painful realities exposed deep vulnerabilities... |
2023 |
| Sean Beienburg, Benjamin B. Johnson |
BLACK POPULAR CONSTITUTIONALISM AND FEDERALISM AFTER THE CIVIL RIGHTS CASES |
65 Arizona Law Review 579 (Fall, 2023) |
In the widely criticized Civil Rights Cases (1883), the Supreme Court invoked federalism to overturn a national public accommodation law and spawned more than a century of commentary. Observing history through the lens of the Civil Rights Era, modern readers often assume that the federalism commitments in the Civil Rights Cases were thinly veiled... |
2023 |
| Charelle Lett |
BLACK WOMEN VICTIMS OF POLICE BRUTALITY AND THE SILENCING OF THEIR STORIES |
30 UCLA Journal of Gender & Law 131 (Summer, 2023) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 132 I. Brief History of State Sanctioned Violence Against Black People in the United States. 132 A. Slave Patrols as the Foundation of Modern Policing. 132 B. The Lynching Period and Law Enforcement's Involvement. 134 C. Historical Account of the Criminalization of Black Activism. 136 1. Second Red Scare. 136 2.... |
2023 |
| Tierra Fulwood , Melba V. Pearson , Rachel A. Silverthorn |
BLACK, FEMALE & ELECTED |
38-FALL Criminal Justice 14 (Fall, 2023) |
In the wake of recent high-profile cases, the role of the elected prosecutor has taken on new scrutiny and attention. The debate over criminal justice reform, including what reform should look like, continues to be a polarizing topic in many circles. One positive, however, is more diverse candidates putting their hats in the ring for the position... |
2023 |
| Matthew Ritchie |
BLACKBALLED? |
109-MAR ABA Journal 46 (February/March, 2023) |
Accusations of systemic racism at the highest ranks of the NFL have plagued the league for decades. After the racial unrest of 2020, sports teams promoted their efforts to address problems through acts that proved more symbolic than effectual. But as is often the case, legal action rather than moral imperative is being used to try to effect change.... |
2023 |
| Sidney E. Holler |
BRAIDS, LOCS, AND BOSTOCK: TITLE VII'S ELUSIVE PROTECTIONS FOR LGBTQ+ AND BLACK WOMEN EMPLOYEES |
26 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 223 (Winter, 2023) |
Whiteness and patriarchy frame our understanding of what it means to be and look professional. Workplace grooming and dress standards, inherently rooted in gender and racial stereotypes, often result in policies that place Black women employees at a unique disadvantage, particularly when it comes to hair. Black women who do not conform to... |
2023 |
| Deborah N. Archer, Vincent M. Southerland, Jason D. Williamson |
BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE NATIONAL BLACK LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS |
4 North Carolina Civil Rights Law Review 87 (Fall, 2023) |
INTEREST OF AMICI CURIAE. 88 SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT. 88 ARGUMENT. 91 I. Race-Conscious Admissions Programs Benefit the Larger Educational Community and Society as a Whole. 91 II. Race-Conscious Admissions Programs Are Not Harmful to the Professional Aspirations or the Personal Well-Being of Black Law Students. 92 III. Race-Conscious Admissions In... |
2023 |
| Kyle Ridgeway |
BROKEN PROMISES: THE CONTINUING DECLINE OF BLACK FARM OWNERS AND OPERATORS IN AMERICA |
27 U.C. Davis Social Justice Law Review 50 (Winter, 2023) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 51 I. The Growth of Black Farm Ownership and the Rotten Roots of Decline. 53 II. Pigford and the Jim USDA Crow. 56 A. Pigford v. Glickman. 57 B. Pigford II: In re Black Farmers Discrimination Litigation. 60 III. The American Rescue Plan Act. 63 A. Section 1005: Farm Loan Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged... |
2023 |
| David Silverman |
BURYING THE BLACK BOX: AI IMAGE GENERATION PLATFORMS AS ARTISTS' TOOLS IN THE AGE OF GOOGLE v. ORACLE |
76 Federal Communications Law Journal 115 (November, 2023) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 116 II. Background. 119 A. Copyright, Fair Use, and its Implications in Google. 119 1. The Key Factors of the Fair Use Doctrine. 121 2. Google v. Oracle Expands Application of Fair Use Doctrine on Technology. 122 3. Transformative Use and its Role in the Fair Use Analysis. 124 B. Artificial Intelligence Image... |
2023 |
| Jessica Robertson |
CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY BILL 3121'S CLAIM FOR BLACK REDRESS: THE CASE FOR A STATE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION AND HOUSING VOUCHERS |
60 San Diego Law Review 513 (August-September, 2023) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 514 II. The Keys to Atonement: Reconciliation and Rehabilitation. 515 A. The Tort Model and The Atonement Model Explained. 517 B. The Task Force Will Likely Seek a Reconciliatory Approach to Redress. 522 C. The Atonement Model Modified. 524 D. The Task Force Should Include a Truth and Reconciliation Commission... |
2023 |
| Julianne Hill |
CALLED UP TO THE MAJOR LEAGUE |
109-SEP ABA Journal 24 (August/September, 2023) |
Character Witness explores legal and societal issues through the lens of attorneys in the trenches who are, inter alia, on a mission to defend liberty and pursue justice. In 1950--just three years after Jackie Robinson smashed baseball's color barrier--William Henry Hastie shattered the judicial glass ceiling, becoming the first Black judge... |
2023 |
| Jonathan Jackson , Tasseli McKay , Leonidas Cheliotis , Ben Bradford , Adam Fine , Rick Trinkner |
CENTERING RACE IN PROCEDURAL JUSTICE THEORY: STRUCTURAL RACISM AND THE UNDER- AND OVERPOLICING OF BLACK COMMUNITIES |
47 Law and Human Behavior 68 (February, 2023) |
Objective: We assessed the factors that legitimized the police in the United States at an important moment of history, just after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. We also evaluated one way of incorporating perceptions of systemic racism into procedural justice theory. Hypotheses: We tested two primary hypotheses. The first hypothesis was... |
2023 |
| Rebecca L. Fix , Jeffrey Aaron , Sheldon Greenberg |
COMMUNITY CRIME, POVERTY, AND PROPORTION OF BLACK RESIDENTS INFLUENCE POLICE DESCRIPTIONS OF ADOLESCENTS |
47 Law and Human Behavior 12 (February, 2023) |
Objective: Our study examined officers' attitudes and perceptions of adolescents in general (and challenges in policing adolescents) and the degree to which community variables affect those perceptions. Hypotheses: Our examinations of officers' descriptions of adolescents and challenges in policing adolescents were exploratory. We hypothesized that... |
2023 |
| Jacqueline Pittman |
CONSTRUCTING RACE AND GENDER IN MODERN RAPE LAW: THE ABANDONED CATEGORY OF BLACK FEMALE VICTIMS |
30 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 151 (2023) |
Despite the successes of the 1960s Anti-Rape Movement, modern state rape statutes continue to prioritize white male perspectives and perceptions of race, ultimately ignoring the intersectional identity of Black women and leaving these victims without legal protection. This Note examines rape law's history of allocating agency along gendered and... |
2023 |
| Magali Duque |
CONTRACTING FOR DEBT: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEBT CAPITALISM, HIGHER EDUCATION, AND THE BLACK-WHITE WEALTH GAP |
58 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 415 (Winter, 2023) |
This Note explores the relationship between contractual parties in the credit market, as shaped by debt capitalism, through a brief history of slavery, peonage, and credit/debt legislation. Debt capitalism is a racially exclusionary system--stemming from slavery--in which asset acquisition, facilitated by working to pay debt, (1) is a requirement... |
2023 |
| Ali Murat Gali |
CRAWLING OUT OF FEAR AND THE RUINS OF AN EMPIRE: QUEER, BLACK, AND NATIVE INTIMACIES, LAWS OF CREATION AND FUTURES OF CARE |
34 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 176 (2023) |
L1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 177 Part I. Relational Possibilities Under the Siege of Equality: Privatized Romances of Sensuality and the Family. 184 A. Lawrence v. Texas and Domesticated Sensualities. 187 B. Obergefell v. Hodges and Fantasizing Privatized Marriage. 193 Part II. Privatized Subjects in Lifeless Streets: Ethical Ramifications... |
2023 |
| Vincent Jones |
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT: HOW THE ONGOING WAR ON DRUGS AND DISCRIMNATION IN HEALTHCARE CREATED A VIABLE EIGHTH AMENDMENT CLAIM FOR BLACK INMATES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC |
33 Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine 537 (2023) |
C1-2Contents Introduction. 538 Part I: The War on Drugs and its Targeted Attack on the Black Community. 539 a. The Key Policies of the War. 542 b. Militarized Policing and Drug Raids. 543 c. The Power of Prosecutors and the Supreme Court. 545 d. The Difficulties of Life After Prison. 547 e. The War on Drugs is Ongoing. 548 Part II: The Impact of... |
2023 |
| Anietie Akpan |
DARK ROOTS: DETANGLING THE NEXUS BETWEEN BLACK HAIRCARE, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND CLEAN BEAUTY EQUITY |
60-FEB Houston Lawyer 24 (January/February, 2023) |
On October 21, 2022, St. Louis resident Jennifer Mitchell filed a mass tort lawsuit in federal court against L'Oreal USA Inc. for the development, marketing, and sale of their chemical hair straightening products, alleging that the use of these products over many years resulted in her diagnosis of uterine cancer in 2018. She has asked the court to... |
2023 |
| Steven D. Schwinn , University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, Chicago, IL |
Did South Carolina Engage in Impermissible Racial Gerrymandering and Impermissible Dilution of Black Residents' Votes in Drawing Its Congressional District 1 (CD1) After the 2020 Census? |
51 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 28 (10/2/2023) |
The 2020 census revealed that South Carolina's 1st Congressional District (CD1) was underpopulated while the neighboring 6th Congressional District (CD6) was overpopulated by roughly the same number of residents. Instead of simply shifting that number to equalize the districts, the South Carolina legislature moved 53,000 residents from CD6 to CD1,... |
2023 |
| Dushiyanthini (Toni) Kenthirarajah , Nicholas P. Camp , Gregory M. Walton , Aaron C. Kay , Geoffrey L. Cohen |
DOES "JAMAL" RECEIVE A HARSHER SENTENCE THAN "JAMES"? FIRST-NAME BIAS IN THE CRIMINAL SENTENCING OF BLACK MEN |
47 Law and Human Behavior 169 (February, 2023) |
Objective: Using archival and experimental methods, we tested the role that racial associations of first names play in criminal sentencing. Hypotheses: We hypothesized that Black defendants with more stereotypically Black names (e.g., Jamal) would receive more punitive sentences than Black defendants with more stereotypically White names (e.g.,... |
2023 |
| Jennifer T. Perillo, Rochelle B. Sykes, Sean A. Bennett, Margaret C. Reardon, Department of Psychology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania |
EXAMINING THE CONSEQUENCES OF DEHUMANIZATION AND ADULTIFICATION IN JUSTIFICATION OF POLICE USE OF FORCE AGAINST BLACK GIRLS AND BOYS |
47 Law and Human Behavior 36 (February, 2023) |
Objective: Given the greater contact that Black youth have with the legal system compared with White youth, it is important to consider the differential ways that police use of force against these youth is perceived. Black youth may be at greater risk than White youth for animalistic (being seen as animal-like) and mechanistic (being seen as... |
2023 |
| Radarius Morrow |
FROM PRISON TO POLLS: AMERICA'S DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF THE BLACK VOTE THROUGH JUVENILE INCARCERATION |
7 Howard Human & Civil Rights Law Review 93 (2022-2023) |
C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L394 I. Revising the Social Contract. 96 II. Felony Disenfranchisement. 97 A. Origins of Disenfranchisement. 98 B. U.S. Evolution of Disenfranchisement: Targeting the Black Vote. 98 III. Kids in Court: The Juvenile Justice System. 101 A. Juvenile and Criminal Court Transfer System. 102 B. Transfer Laws: The... |
2023 |
| Myisha S. Eatmon |
FROM THE "LEGAL CULTURE OF SLAVERY" TO BLACK LEGAL CULTURE: REIMAGINING THE IMPLICATIONS AND MEANINGS OF BLACK LITIGIOUSNESS IN SLAVERY AND FREEDOM |
48 Law and Social Inquiry 1428 (November, 2023) |
De la Fuente, Alejandro, and Ariela J. Gross. Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 282. Edwards, Laura F. The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South. Chapel Hill: University of... |
2023 |
| Barbara Sicalides, (https://businesslawtoday.org/author/barbaratsicalides/), Troutman, Pepper, Hamilton, Sanders, LLP |
FTC SETTLES CHALLENGE TO ACQUISITION OF BLACK KNIGHT BY INTERCONTINENTAL EXCHANGE |
2023-SEP Business Law Today 22 (September, 2023) |
Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Lina Khan has made plain (https://www.axios.com/2022/06/09/ftcs-new-stance-litigate-dont-negotiate-lina-khan) that [the agency is] going to be focusing [its] resources on litigating, rather than on settling. This summer, however, the FTC has negotiated and agreed to settlements in two separate merger... |
2023 |
| David A. Grenardo |
GETTING TO THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM: WHERE ARE ALL THE BLACK OWNERS IN SPORTS? |
91 UMKC Law Review 727 (Summer, 2023) |
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation--either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Many decry the lack of Black and other minority head coaches and team executives... |
2023 |
| Jon May |
GOD'S PONZI, BY ROBERT BUSCHEL, BLACK ROSE WRITING (2022) |
47-JUN Champion 48 (June, 2023) |
Legal thrillers often follow the same formula. The protagonist/lawyer is down on his luck. The protagonist may have multiple failed marriages, or be an alcoholic, or a recovering drug addict. The lawyer may have been kicked out of Big Law because of totally unfounded allegations that he bribed a witness, or he may be broke and have to work out of... |
2023 |
| Alexis Boyd |
HAIR ME OUT: WHY DISCRIMINATION AGAINST BLACK HAIR IS RACE DISCRIMINATION UNDER TITLE VII |
31 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 75 (2023) |
I. Introduction. 77 II. Background. 80 A. Discrimination Against Black Hair in Context. 80 B. Is Hair Discrimination Race Discrimination?. 82 1. Federal Protection: Under Title VII, Employers Cannot Discriminate Against a Person Because of Their Race. 82 2. Federal Court Precedent: Traditionally, Race-Based Hair Discrimination is Not Recognized as... |
2023 |
| Ainslee Johnson-Brown |
HALF AMERICAN, HALF AMAZING: A REVIEW OF HALF AMERICAN BY MATTHEW F. DELMONT AND AN EXPLORATION OF EXECUTIVE ACTION DURING WORLD WAR II AND ITS IMPACT ON BLACK SOLDIERS |
14 ConLawNOW 25 (2023) |
Matthew F. Delmont's new book, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad (2022), enriches the ongoing scholarship related to critical race theory and the effects of executive action on the lived experience of Black Americans. Delmont presents a well-woven narrative of the experience of Black... |
2023 |
| Alichia McIntosh |
HEALTHCARE INEQUITIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND BEYOND ARE TAKING BLACK WOMEN'S LIVES |
18 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 102 (Spring, 2023) |
Black women have been dying at devastating rates due to health complications at the hands of the United States' healthcare and legal systems. This Note explores these distressing rates and how they compare to White women while analyzing the fatalities and diagnoses among several health complications and diseases. These fatalities persist due to the... |
2023 |
| D. Brock Hornby, Emma Akrawi |
HISTORY LESSONS |
26 Green Bag 101 (Winter, 2023) |
In 1837, Lambert Bercier of French Guadeloupe engaged Captain Sylvanus Prince of North Yarmouth, Maine, to transport Bercier's 30-year-old slave Polydore and Bercier's 17-year-old son Eugene to Maine on board the brig Galen. The outcome was Polydore v. Prince, an 1837 federal decision often ignored and sometimes mischaracterized, holding an... |
2023 |
| Amanda Covington |
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A PROBLEM?: THE LEGAL RAMIFICATIONS OF MIGRANT PROTECTION PROTOCOLS AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF BIDEN v. TEXAS |
45 North Carolina Central Law Review 243 (2022-2023) |
The placement and displacement of undocumented persons in the United States is often posed as a dreadful problem that lingers with little hope of a viable solution. This issue over the years has been eloquently poised as a hot-button topic for political debates, the power move to gain attention from the current administration, or a matter better... |
2023 |
| Jonathan G. Blattmachr |
HOW WEALTH TRANSFER TAXES MIGHT REDUCE RACIAL WEALTH DISPARITY IN AMERICA |
20 Pittsburgh Tax Review 297 (Spring, 2023) |
This Article will discuss what seems to be the impact of estate, gift and generation-skipping taxes (collectively and commonly referred to as wealth transfer taxes) imposed by the United States (Federal) on the disparity of wealth in America. It describes, in general terms, how those taxes work. It also describes, again in general terms, the... |
2023 |