Thank you to all who joined us last Friday for Furtive Blackness & The Afterlives of Slavery, the Mitchell Hamline Law Review & Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law spring symposium. You can find links to recordings below if you missed the fantastic panels or would like to rewatch them to let the panelists’ remarks and insights soak in. Also, read on for details regarding pending CLE credits, recommending readings and works of authors mentioned during the panels, and how to stay connected to the work of our organizations.
Recordings
Panel 1: 9:45-11 a.m. CDT Local Governance, Local Change and National Impacts
- Jamael Lundy, Intergovernmental Affairs Director for County Attorney Mary Moriarty
- Lyndsey Olson, City Attorney, City of Saint Paul
- Mikeya Griffin, Executive Director, Rondo Community Land Trust
- Representative Ruth Richardson, DFL, 52B
- Justin Terrell, Executive Director, Minnesota Justice Research Center
Moderated by Gillian Mwangi, President of the Black Law Students Association
Presidential Roundtable: 1:30-3:15 p.m. CDT Furtive Blackness & The Afterlives of Slavery
- Jamilah Jefferson Jones, Earl B. Shurtz Research Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging, University of Kansas School of Law
- Angela Rose Myers, Scholar-Organizer and Former President, Minneapolis NAACP
- Frank Leon Roberts (Ph.D.), Assistant Professor of English & Black Studies, Amherst College
- Michele Alexandre, Dean and Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
- Etienne Toussaint, Assistant Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law
- Shirley E. Thompson (Ph.D.), Associate Professor & Associate Chair and African and African Diaspora Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Moderated by Dr. T. Anansi Wilson, JD/Ph.D.
CLE Credit
Elimination of Bias Credit is pending for both panels.
| Panel | Event Code | Event Date | Course Title | Pending Credits |
| 1 | 485817 | 4/28/2023 | Furtive Blackness & The Afterlives of Slavery: Local Governance Local Change, and National Impact | 1.25 Elimination of Bias Credits (pending) |
| Presidential Roundtable | 485359 | 4/28/2023 | Furtive Blackness & The Afterlives of Slavery | 1.5 Elimination of Bias Credits (pending) |
Ongoing Updates
To stay up-to-date on the work of our organizations:
- Please follow Mitchell Hamline Law Review on social media, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook, and check out the articles we’re publishing: https://open.mitchellhamline.edu/mhlr/.
- Support the Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law’s work, check out the website, and follow the Twitter page for the Center (@BlackLifeAndLaw) and/or Dr. Wilson (@BlaQueerFlow).
Recommended Additional Readings:
https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_constitutional_law_quaterly/vol48/iss1/6/
https://virginialawreview.org/articles/blackness-as-fighting-words/
https://www.amazon.com/Sexploitation-Profiling-Illusion-Routledge-Identity/dp/0415827507
https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/how-black-lives-matter-changed-way-americans-fight
https://www.amazon.com/Exiles-Home-Struggle-American-Orleans/dp/067402351X
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/living-while-black-racism
https://www.dukeupress.edu/dark-matters
https://www.akpress.org/the-undercommons.html