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.
March 1, 2022
by Ananya Gill Sanha
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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…
October 29, 2020
by Chiamaka Echebiri
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Staff Posts
By Chiamaka Echebiri*
Zombie no go go, unless you tell am to go (Zombie)
Zombie no go stop, unless you tell am to stop (Zombie)
Zombie no go turn, unless you tell am to turn (Zombie)
Zombie no go think, unless you tell am to think (Zombie)[1]
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July 11, 2020
by Julyana Dawson
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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…
February 17, 2020
by Malcolm B. Morse
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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…
February 4, 2020
by Xinmin Ma
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By XINMIN MA*
On January 24, 2020, Keith Tharpe, a death row inmate who claimed that his conviction was the result of a juror’s racial bias, died due to complications of cancer.[1] In 1991, Tharpe was sentenced to death for malice murder and aggravated…
December 2, 2019
by Ayana Brown
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By AYANA BROWN*
Last month, voters in southeast Baton Rouge, Louisiana voted to “incorporate” the city of St. George.[1] If the incorporation attempt is successful, it will mark the fourth secession from the East Baton Rouge Parish School District…
November 4, 2019
by Chiamaka Echebiri
Staff Posts
By CHIAMAKA ECHEBIRI[1]
The murder of Black people, in the hands of law enforcement, is state sanctioned violence. Further, the carceral state does not restore victims and it has systemically relegated Black people to cages.[2] It is a social,[3] civic…