On March 1st, 2024, the University of Florida (“the University”) released a memo announcing its intention to eliminate its chief diversity officer position, along with its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) staff.1 The University also halted all…
Racial disparities in capital punishment have been thoroughly documented.1 Where explicitly racist laws once codified discrimination in the imposition of the death penalty, today, disparities in capital punishment are primarily the result of forces that…
Florida has cultivated a landscape of education policy amounting to state censorship and the dilution of African-American history curriculum to the point of inaccessibility. The primary legislation deployed in their effort has been HB-1069.[1] The…
Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark Supreme Court decision that struck down the separation of educational facilities based on race.[1] In Brown, African American students were denied access to public schools attended by their white counterparts…
Ten years ago, the Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act (“VRA”) by striking down Section 4.[1] Section 4 provided a coverage formula, defining covered jurisdictions as states who used tests or devices as…
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…
In spite of an increasingly multicultural and diverse United States, U.S. law creates and maintains divisions amongst its citizens.
A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the
people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
In October 2022, photos emerged giving a glimpse into the dangerous conditions inside Rikers Island jails.
On September 14, 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis manipulated roughly 50 migrants from Venezuela and Colombia into boarding a plane bound for Martha’s Vineyard.[1] There are many possible reasons for Governor DeSantis’ publicity stunt. Some…
