The NFL doesn’t care about Black people! This should come as a surprise to no one with any bit of cultural awareness and familiarity with the history of the United States, particularly as it pertains to ongoing racial discrimination and systemic oppression of marginalized communities—like Bush during Katrina. On September 6, 2018, the NFL’s 2018-2019 … Continue reading The NFL Doesn’t Care About Black People!
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Court of Appeal Upholds State Bar’s Decision to Protect Bar Applicant Privacy in Sanders v State Bar, Case Affecting Law Students of Color
By Vanessa L. Holton, General Counsel, The State Bar of California On August 23, 2018, a California appeals court held that the State Bar does not need to modify private demographic information that it received from bar applicants in order to produce a supposedly anonymous dataset for the public. This important decision ensures that state agencies … Continue reading Court of Appeal Upholds State Bar’s Decision to Protect Bar Applicant Privacy in Sanders v State Bar, Case Affecting Law Students of Color
Kavanaugh May Put Disparate Impact on the Chopping Block
Dean Erwin Chermerinsky put the fear of God into me in describing his predictions for cases a Justice Kavanaugh would overturn. Erwin predicts Kavanaugh would provide the fifth vote that would hold the use of disparate impact in Title VII and Title VIII to be an illegal use of race!! Thinking about this caused me … Continue reading Kavanaugh May Put Disparate Impact on the Chopping Block
Eva Paterson’s Op-ed on Kavanaugh in SF Chronicle
Opinion: Kavanaugh will undermine progress made on justice for all By Eva Paterson San Francisco Chronicle Sept. 5, 2018 Facebook | Twitter Brett Kavanaugh has been nominated by President Trump to fill the vacancy created by the premature retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy. Civil rights activists, abortion rights advocates, the disability rights community, and those concerned with limiting … Continue reading Eva Paterson’s Op-ed on Kavanaugh in SF Chronicle
¡Trump no está por encima de la ley!
¡Nadie está por encima de la ley, ni siquiera el presidente! #StopKavanaugh https://www.facebook.com/equaljusticesociety/videos/249207762465969/
The Resilience of Racism, by Sarah Zemelman
In 1980, I was an adjunct professor at Hastings College of the Law and taught a class called “Representing the Underrepresented,” which was a hands-on class aimed at helping law students know what it takes to help change the world for the better through strategic litigation. One of my students was Mark Zemelman. I told … Continue reading The Resilience of Racism, by Sarah Zemelman
Three Reports Conclude Kavanaugh’s Record is a Threat to Racial Justice
My personal hero is Charles Hamilton Houston, the architect of the brilliant legal strategy that led to Brown v. Board of Education. I was born in Texas when separate but equal was the law of the land. My Dad was an Air Force officer so my brothers and I went to fully desegregated schools on … Continue reading Three Reports Conclude Kavanaugh’s Record is a Threat to Racial Justice
Do you know people in these 7 states?
Manafort’s guilty verdicts and Cohen’s guilty plea changed the political landscape. Polling is indicating that some Trump voters (not the white supremacists) are tiring of the corruption and feel that there should be a check on his power. Brett Kavanaugh is not the person who will provide that. Five Democrats are still listed as undecided. … Continue reading Do you know people in these 7 states?