As the 2024 Presidential Race approached its final chapter, the American media continued to note Vice President Kamala Harris’s substantial lead among Black voters, especially in battleground states.1 Nevertheless, the story of Black voters’ support…
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…
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…
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] …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
