Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms |
Raja Staggers-Hakim, PhD, MPH |
BLACK LIVES MATTER, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND HEALTH INEQUITIES |
40 Western New England Law Review 447 (2018) |
As a social justice and civil rights movement, Black Lives Matter (BLM) emerged out of state sanctioned violence against African-Americans. With police violence as the backdrop, the movement recognizes all forms of violence and oppression that unfairly target Black Americans. A Vision for Black Lives has called for the United States government to... |
2018 |
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Raja Staggers-Hakim, PhD, MPH |
BLACK LIVES MATTER, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND HEALTH INEQUITIES |
40 Western New England Law Review 447 (2018) |
As a social justice and civil rights movement, Black Lives Matter (BLM) emerged out of state sanctioned violence against African-Americans. With police violence as the backdrop, the movement recognizes all forms of violence and oppression that unfairly target Black Americans. A Vision for Black Lives has called for the United States government to... |
2018 |
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Dr. Bridgette Baldwin |
BLACK, WHITE, AND BLUE: BIAS, PROFILING, AND POLICING IN THE AGE OF BLACK LIVES MATTER |
40 Western New England Law Review 431 (2018) |
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. Benjamin Spock On July 17, 2014, in Staten Island, New York, Eric Garner lost his life to an illegal chokehold at the hands of police officer Daniel Pantaleo. With his last words, Garner uttered the... |
2018 |
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Dr. Bridgette Baldwin |
BLACK, WHITE, AND BLUE: BIAS, PROFILING, AND POLICING IN THE AGE OF BLACK LIVES MATTER |
40 Western New England Law Review 431 (2018) |
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. Benjamin Spock On July 17, 2014, in Staten Island, New York, Eric Garner lost his life to an illegal chokehold at the hands of police officer Daniel Pantaleo. With his last words, Garner uttered the... |
2018 |
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Twila L. Perry |
CONSCIOUS AND STRATEGIC REPRESENTATIONS OF RACE: PRINCE, MUSIC, BLACK LIVES, AND RACE SCHOLARSHIP |
27 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 549 (Spring, 2018) |
Prince has often been described in the media as an artist who transcended barriers of race, gender and music genre. However, the context of race has received much less attention than the contexts of gender and music. Although discussions of Prince in the media have seldom focused on his racial identity as an African-American, an examination of... |
2018 |
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Twila L. Perry |
CONSCIOUS AND STRATEGIC REPRESENTATIONS OF RACE: PRINCE, MUSIC, BLACK LIVES, AND RACE SCHOLARSHIP |
27 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 549 (Spring, 2018) |
Prince has often been described in the media as an artist who transcended barriers of race, gender and music genre. However, the context of race has received much less attention than the contexts of gender and music. Although discussions of Prince in the media have seldom focused on his racial identity as an African-American, an examination of... |
2018 |
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Bruce Miller |
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--DO BLACK LIVES MATTER TO THE CONSTITUTION? |
40 Western New England Law Review 459 (2018) |
The question is, of course, a provocation. If read rhetorically, it lends itself (too) easily to equally categorical, opposing answers: of course black lives don't matter to the Constitution's infamous three-fifths clause, its protection of property interests in escaped enslaved people, and its recognition of the states' power to control... |
2018 |
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Bruce Miller |
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--DO BLACK LIVES MATTER TO THE CONSTITUTION? |
40 Western New England Law Review 459 (2018) |
The question is, of course, a provocation. If read rhetorically, it lends itself (too) easily to equally categorical, opposing answers: of course black lives don't matter to the Constitution's infamous three-fifths clause, its protection of property interests in escaped enslaved people, and its recognition of the states' power to control... |
2018 |
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Marjorie Johnson, J.D. |
DISCRIMINATION-RACE-S.D. IND.: WHITE MANAGER FIRED AFTER CRITICAL 'BLACK LIVES MATTER' FACEBOOK POST CAN PURSUE RACE DISCRIMINATION AND REPRISAL CLAIMS |
2018 Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily 2015993 (May 1, 2018) |
A white bank manager who was demoted and then fired after posting a message on his Facebook feed that was critical of the Black Lives Matter movement plausibly alleged Title VII claims of race discrimination and retaliation, held a federal district court in Indiana, given his purported exemplary work performance and the fact that African-American... |
2018 |
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Marjorie Johnson, J.D. |
DISCRIMINATION-RACE-S.D. IND.: WHITE MANAGER FIRED AFTER CRITICAL 'BLACK LIVES MATTER' FACEBOOK POST CAN PURSUE RACE DISCRIMINATION AND REPRISAL CLAIMS |
2018 Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily 2015993 (May 1, 2018) |
A white bank manager who was demoted and then fired after posting a message on his Facebook feed that was critical of the Black Lives Matter movement plausibly alleged Title VII claims of race discrimination and retaliation, held a federal district court in Indiana, given his purported exemplary work performance and the fact that African-American... |
2018 |
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Marjorie Johnson, J.D. |
DISCRIMINATION-RACE-W.D.N.C.: EMPLOYEE CALLED 'RACIST' AFTER FACEBOOK RANT ABOUT BLACK LIVES MATTER CAN'T ADVANCE RACE, DEFAMATION CLAIMS |
2018 Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily 948039 (February 20, 2018) |
Coworkers' comments calling an airline employee racist following her controversial Facebook posts regarding the Black Lives Matter movement did not create an actionable hostile work environment since they were neither race-based nor sufficiently severe or pervasive. Granting the defendants' partial motion to dismiss, a federal court in North... |
2018 |
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Marjorie Johnson, J.D. |
DISCRIMINATION-RACE-W.D.N.C.: EMPLOYEE CALLED 'RACIST' AFTER FACEBOOK RANT ABOUT BLACK LIVES MATTER CAN'T ADVANCE RACE, DEFAMATION CLAIMS |
2018 Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily 948039 (February 20, 2018) |
Coworkers' comments calling an airline employee racist following her controversial Facebook posts regarding the Black Lives Matter movement did not create an actionable hostile work environment since they were neither race-based nor sufficiently severe or pervasive. Granting the defendants' partial motion to dismiss, a federal court in North... |
2018 |
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Harris Freeman |
FOREWORD--POLICE MISCONDUCT AND KIBBE v. CITY OF SPRINGFIELD |
40 Western New England Law Review 393 (2018) |
The Law Review's 2017 symposium, Perspectives on Racial Justice in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter, appropriately opened with a panel that addressed the ongoing challenge of combatting police misconduct, as seen through the lens of Kibbe v. City of Springfield, a civil rights case that unfolded in Western Massachusetts and reached the United States... |
2018 |
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Megan Keller |
Sessions in Chicago: If you want more shootings, listen to ACLU, Antifa, Black Lives Matter |
2018 The Hill 4491438 (September 19, 2018) |
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday that groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, Antifa and Black Lives Matter are responsible for an increase in violence in Chicago. |
2018 |
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Megan Keller |
Sessions in Chicago: If you want more shootings, listen to ACLU, Antifa, Black Lives Matter |
2018 The Hill 4491438 (September 19, 2018) |
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday that groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, Antifa and Black Lives Matter are responsible for an increase in violence in Chicago. |
2018 |
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Philip Lee |
STUDENT PROTESTS AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN AN AGE OF #BLACKLIVESMATTER |
79 Ohio State Law Journal 223 (2018) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 224 II. The Historical Context of Racial Exclusion on American College Campuses. 229 III. The Constitutional Standard of Student Academic Freedom. 237 A. Tension Between Academic Freedom of Students and Institutions. 242 B. Tension Between Academic Freedom of Students and Professors. 245 IV. Toward a New... |
2018 |
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Carlton Edward Williams |
SYMPOSIUM--THE MORE WE FIGHT, THE MORE WE WIN: MOVEMENT LAWYERING IN THE ERA OF #BLACKLIVESMATTER |
40 Western New England Law Review 403 (2018) |
I work for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (ACLU) in Boston, and my work focuses solely on issues of racial justice, so you can imagine that's a very specific and very narrow thing. It isn't though--because racial justice reflects on issues of police brutality, police killings, police murders committed against, specifically,... |
2018 |
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Garrett Chase |
THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT, AND THE IMPLICATIONS THEREOF |
18 Nevada Law Journal 1091 (Spring, 2018) |
From quarterbacks to hashtags, from mall demonstrations to community vigils, and from the streets of New York to the courts of Texas, the Black Lives Matter movement undisputedly has made its mark on America's consciousness. But what is this movement? Where did it come from? Does Black Lives Matter stand for civil rights, or human rights? What... |
2018 |
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Garrett Chase |
THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT, AND THE IMPLICATIONS THEREOF |
18 Nevada Law Journal 1091 (Spring, 2018) |
From quarterbacks to hashtags, from mall demonstrations to community vigils, and from the streets of New York to the courts of Texas, the Black Lives Matter movement undisputedly has made its mark on America's consciousness. But what is this movement? Where did it come from? Does Black Lives Matter stand for civil rights, or human rights? What... |
2018 |
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Kimberly A. Yuracko , Ronen Avraham |
VALUING BLACK LIVES: A CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE TO THE USE OF RACE-BASED TABLES IN CALCULATING TORT DAMAGES |
106 California Law Review 325 (April, 2018) |
This Article challenges a practice in tort law that is ubiquitous, yet little noticed--namely the use of race-based wage, life expectancy, and work-life expectancy tables when calculating damage awards. The practice results in damage awards that are significantly lower for black victims than for white victims and creates an incentive for potential... |
2018 |
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Kimberly A. Yuracko , Ronen Avraham |
VALUING BLACK LIVES: A CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE TO THE USE OF RACE-BASED TABLES IN CALCULATING TORT DAMAGES |
106 California Law Review 325 (April, 2018) |
This Article challenges a practice in tort law that is ubiquitous, yet little noticed--namely the use of race-based wage, life expectancy, and work-life expectancy tables when calculating damage awards. The practice results in damage awards that are significantly lower for black victims than for white victims and creates an incentive for potential... |
2018 |
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Laura Goolsby |
WHY INTERNATIONAL LAW SHOULD MATTER TO BLACK LIVES MATTER: A DRAFT PETITION TO THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ON BEHALF OF THE FAMILY OF ERIC GARNER |
21 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change 29 (2018) |
The United States consistently fails to provide effective remedies to victims of unlawful force perpetrated by police departments around the country. Efforts to address this impunity and underlying systemic racism have met with limited success. Recently, activists and scholars have begun calling for international review of these practices. This... |
2018 |
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Laura Goolsby |
WHY INTERNATIONAL LAW SHOULD MATTER TO BLACK LIVES MATTER: A DRAFT PETITION TO THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ON BEHALF OF THE FAMILY OF ERIC GARNER |
21 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change 29 (2018) |
The United States consistently fails to provide effective remedies to victims of unlawful force perpetrated by police departments around the country. Efforts to address this impunity and underlying systemic racism have met with limited success. Recently, activists and scholars have begun calling for international review of these practices. This... |
2018 |
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Katheryn Russell-Brown |
CRITICAL BLACK PROTECTIONISM, BLACK LIVES MATTER, AND SOCIAL MEDIA: BUILDING A BRIDGE TO SOCIAL JUSTICE |
60 Howard Law Journal 367 (Winter, 2017) |
INTRODUCTION. 368 I. THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION OF BLACK PROTECTIONISM: AN OVERVIEW. 372 II. HOW BLACK PROTECTIONISM OPERATES. 376 III. CONTEMPORARY CASES. 384 A. Hey, Hey, Hey: The Cosby Cases. 386 B. Ray Rice. 390 C. Adrian Peterson. 392 D. Jameis Winston. 392 E. Chris Brown (& Rihanna). 394 F. Michael Vick. 395 G. Analysis and Application... |
2017 |
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Katheryn Russell-Brown |
CRITICAL BLACK PROTECTIONISM, BLACK LIVES MATTER, AND SOCIAL MEDIA: BUILDING A BRIDGE TO SOCIAL JUSTICE |
60 Howard Law Journal 367 (Winter, 2017) |
INTRODUCTION. 368 I. THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION OF BLACK PROTECTIONISM: AN OVERVIEW. 372 II. HOW BLACK PROTECTIONISM OPERATES. 376 III. CONTEMPORARY CASES. 384 A. Hey, Hey, Hey: The Cosby Cases. 386 B. Ray Rice. 390 C. Adrian Peterson. 392 D. Jameis Winston. 392 E. Chris Brown (& Rihanna). 394 F. Michael Vick. 395 G. Analysis and Application... |
2017 |
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Kathleen Kapusta, J.D. |
DISCRIMINATION-RACE-D.S.C.: WHITE EMPLOYEE FIRED AFTER 'DISCUSSION' OF BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTEST CAN'T ADVANCE RACE BIAS CLAIM |
2017 Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily 3187483 (July 27, 2017) |
Although the evidence tended to show a hotel's explanation for terminating a white employee was pretextualshe was purportedly fired for being rude, disrespectful, and insubordinate to three African-American superiors during a conversation about a Black Lives Matter protest that had just taken place in the hotelit did not support more than a... |
2017 |
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Kathleen Kapusta, J.D. |
DISCRIMINATION-RACE-D.S.C.: WHITE EMPLOYEE FIRED AFTER 'DISCUSSION' OF BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTEST CAN'T ADVANCE RACE BIAS CLAIM |
2017 Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily 3187483 (July 27, 2017) |
Although the evidence tended to show a hotel's explanation for terminating a white employee was pretextualshe was purportedly fired for being rude, disrespectful, and insubordinate to three African-American superiors during a conversation about a Black Lives Matter protest that had just taken place in the hotelit did not support more than a... |
2017 |
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Valecia J. Battle |
DROP THE PHONE AND STEP AWAY FROM THE WEAPON: THE FIRST AMENDMENT, THE CAMERA PHONE, AND THE MOVEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES |
60 Howard Law Journal 531 (Winter, 2017) |
INTRODUCTION. 532 I. THE CRIMINALIZATION OF BLACKNESS. 534 A. The American Enslavement of African People: Caste Creation. 534 B. Reconstruction and Jim Crow. 537 C. Law & Order, The New Jim Crow, and the Prison Industrial Complex. 541 II. WIRETAPPING & EAVESDROPPING LAWS. 543 III. QUALIFIED IMMUNITY & THE WELL-ESTABLISHED RIGHT. 546 IV. WHY DO OUR... |
2017 |
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Valecia J. Battle |
DROP THE PHONE AND STEP AWAY FROM THE WEAPON: THE FIRST AMENDMENT, THE CAMERA PHONE, AND THE MOVEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES |
60 Howard Law Journal 531 (Winter, 2017) |
INTRODUCTION. 532 I. THE CRIMINALIZATION OF BLACKNESS. 534 A. The American Enslavement of African People: Caste Creation. 534 B. Reconstruction and Jim Crow. 537 C. Law & Order, The New Jim Crow, and the Prison Industrial Complex. 541 II. WIRETAPPING & EAVESDROPPING LAWS. 543 III. QUALIFIED IMMUNITY & THE WELL-ESTABLISHED RIGHT. 546 IV. WHY DO OUR... |
2017 |
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Jessica Watters |
PINK HATS AND BLACK FISTS: THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT |
24 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 199 (Fall, 2017) |
I. Origins and Critiques of the Women's March II. True Intersectional Feminism Must Be Continuously Demonstrated by Allies III. The Collective Power of (White) Women Conclusion On January 21, 2017, nearly five hundred thousand people, many adorned in pink, cat-eared pussyhats, descended on Washington, D.C.--the flagship location for the official... |
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