Study: Racial disparities among judges and prosecutors result in unequal sentencing outcomes
THE APPEAL — Studies show that 95 percent of the nation’s prosecutors are white and that the lack of Black and brown representation in courts negatively affect outcomes for people of color.
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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW SCHOOL — In July 2020 University of Colorado Law School Dean S. James Anaya announced a comprehensive new initiative to confront racism and its persistent effects around us, and to advance the representation and genuine welcoming of Black people and other marginalized groups within the University of Colorado Law School community and the legal…
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DRAKE UNIVERSITY NEWS AND EVENT — Drake Law students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends came together to #TakeAWalk for unity and community, and to further dialogue on racial equality.
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NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL — The Racial Justice Project New York Law School (NYLS) praised the New York Legislature’s passage of the Driver’s License Suspension Reform Act.
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AMERICA MAGAZINE: THE JESUIT REVIEW — Boston College will address structural racism through its Forum on Racial Justice in America.
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CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SCHOOL OF LAW — Over 300 legal scholars, deans, faculty, administrators, and select students from NYC area law schools are convening to build a network committed to working together across roles and institutions to create an anti-racist climate in legal education.
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OMAHA WORLD HERALD — ]The University of Nebraska-Lincoln routinely talks about the need to improve race relations, and this time it will do something about it, UNL’s leader said Tuesday.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — As the Trump administration leaned on governors to reopen their states’ schools and a U.S. House subcommittee debated whether to give colleges the additional billions they say they need, the head of the University of Southern California’s Race and Equity Center urged lawmakers to take steps to make sure resuming campus learning…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Campus Uprisings: How Student Activists and Collegiate Leaders Resist Racism and Create Hope (Teachers College Press) is a collection of essays on the motives for campus protest and the results.
Read More about New book looks at protest movements on campusABA Men of Color Project leads conversations on racial justice
ABA JOURNAL — Amid the national reckoning over racial injustice, Jerome Crawford and Michael Luong Nguyen find themselves facing a unique opportunity. They serve as co-chairs of the ABA’s Men of Color Project, an initiative within the Young Lawyers Division that aims to address the lack of diversity and advancement of men of color in the legal…
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