Legal scholars from across the country unpacked recent decisions they say depart from historical precedent and jeopardize the rights of minorities and other vulnerable groups.
UC Berkeley law professor Dylan Penningroth’s book “Before the Movement” reveals the many ways Black Americans, long before the Civil Rights Movement, navigated the law by asserting their civil rights of property.
Experts from the museum, auction house, legal, and academic world describe triumphs and challenges surrounding an estimated 600,000-plus works the Nazis stole between 1933 and 1945.
Over 500 people registered for the event, where lawyers, computer scientists, scholars, government officials, and criminal justice leaders probed the act’s early impact and future landscape.
Rogers, who has forged a stellar career in the reproductive justice movement, knows it’s a pivotal time in the fight to protect bodily autonomy — and is ready for it.
Professor Khiara Bridges joins hosts Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay to discuss conservative backlash to a San Francisco maternal health program for Black women.
“If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse the 8th Circuit’s decision, it will leave little remedy for violations of one of our most important rights,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.
Professor Khiara M.Bridges also drew another distinction between the role of race in college admissions and the role of race in health disparities. “If you don’t get into Harvard, there’s always Princeton or Columbia or Cornell,” she said. “Maternal death — the stakes are a little bit higher.”