On the MCRP blog, staff editors provide their commentary on a current event through a critical race lens or choose a problem discussed in one of the published articles and write about their own solutions to that problem.

Tennessee Enacts New Policies to Further Disenfranchise Black Voters

December 1, 2023 by Matthew Mancini

Recently, Tennessee implemented harsher voting restrictions for people with felony convictions.[1] An estimated 4.6 million Americans, or 2% of the voting population, are disenfranchised due to their felony conviction.[2] In Tennessee, more than 1-in-10…

Woke-ism in Corporate America

March 1, 2022 by Ananya Gill Sanha Blog Posts Staff Posts

By Ananya Gill Sanha* Woke-ism in Corporate America   With the conference of “personhood” to corporations,[1] the twenty-first century corporation must embrace the shareholder, “demos prudence” theory[2]: corporations should consider all…

A Proper Congressional Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

July 11, 2020 by Julyana Dawson Blog Posts Staff Posts

By Julyana Dawson* The year 2020 will be a year remembered by the COVID-19 pandemic in large part because of the substantial economic harm it will cause to many American families.[1] Unfortunately, lower-income Americans, who are more likely to experience…

True Justice: The Disturbing Truth about Incarceration in D.C.

February 17, 2020 by Malcolm B. Morse Staff Posts

By Malcolm B. Morse*   In celebration of Black History Month, the Georgetown Black Law Students Association partnered with the Georgetown Juvenile Justice Clinic to host a screening of Bryan Stevenson’s True Justice documentary. Through it, Stevenson…