New England Law honors black women legal professionals
NEW ENGLAND LAW BOSTON — From the first African American female lawyer to the most admired woman in the world, black women have an incredible legacy in the legal profession.
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USA TODAY — The USA TODAY Network launched a series on the Latino community in the U.S. called Hecho en USA, or made in America. Roughly 80% of all Latinos living in the U.S. are American citizens. But media coverage of Hispanics tends to focus on immigration and crime, instead of how Latino families live, work…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — A new study shows that minority and first-generation students have a higher sense of belonging at two-year colleges than their counterparts at four-year institutions.
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BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL — These are the questions Bennett Capers, the Stanley A. August Professor of Law, takes up in his article “Afrofuturism, Critical Race Theory, and Policing in the Year 2044,” 94 New York University Law Review 1 (2019). Capers is a prolific scholar on the relationship between race, gender, and criminal justice. At the…
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — S.J.D. candidate Mohamed Sweify, who is also a teaching fellow at Fordham Law, wrote an essay for the New York State Bar Association discussing how diversity and inclusion have become important parts of the legal field and in the practice of ADR.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — For the first time ever, women are now the majority of U.S. medical school students, according to 2019 data released Tuesday by the Association of American Medical Colleges. This new milestone follows another one reached in 2017, when women comprised the majority of first-year medical students.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order focused on anti-Semitism on college campuses, drawing praise from some quarters and concerns from others about implications for free speech on campuses.
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UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SCHOOL OF LAW — Last month, the University of Chicago and Northwestern MLSA chapters co-hosted the National Muslim Law Students Conference, drawing more than 70 Muslim law students from more than 28 law schools and 15 states—one of the largest gatherings of Muslim law students in the country. The conference, aimed at establishing a national community,…
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THE WASHINGTON POST — We are today, and have been since our origin, a nation divided. Our many schisms arise from political opinions, cultural and racial identities, religious dogma and more. When these differences meet and combust, the results are often destructive, even tragic. How to address the more robust and dangerous differences among us is, in…
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THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — Thirty-five percent of education deans who responded to a survey by the Center for Academic Leadership in 1996-97 were women, and 15 percent were racial or ethnic minorities. By the 2015-16 academic year, nearly two-thirds of newly appointed education deans were women, according to The Chronicle’s Gazette listings. However, the…
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