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Watch: Dr. Anansi Wilson (MHSL) and Professor Lua Kamál Yuille (Harvard Law) Discuss Roots of Racial Capitalism

Posted: March 30, 2023
This dialogue on racial capitalism was sponsored by the Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, The Law and Political Economy Association at Harvard Law School and their respective Black Law Student Associations, as well as the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Law Review. It was …

Watch: Dr. Anansi Wilson (MHSL) and Professor Lua Kamál Yuille (Harvard Law) Discuss Roots of Racial Capitalism

Center Releases Letter in Support of Office of Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls

Posted: February 19, 2023
We are announcing our strong  support of the creation of the Office of Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls. Read our statement, joined by the Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute, the Institute to Transform Child Protection and the Dispute Resolution Institute. Letter Supporting Office of Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls

Center Releases Letter in Support of Office of Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls

Final approval for Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law

Posted: November 4, 2022
The Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law gained faculty approval in October, officially making it the newest center at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. Founding Director T. Anansi Wilson has been developing the center since 2020 and convening lectures, academic symposia, and community events in furtherance of its mission – to …

Final approval for Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law

Watch: The Center Co-Hosts “Truth, Equity, & Justice: How We Make Our Way Forward (Again) Together Conference”

Posted: October 18, 2022
On October 6th, the Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law–along with our partners the Minnesota Humanities Center and Minnesota Equity and Justice Project–convened a conference titled “Truth, Equity & Justice: How We Make Our Way Forward (Again).” Recognizing that racial inequity and antiBlackness are local and global phenomena, the conference brought …

Watch: The Center Co-Hosts “Truth, Equity, & Justice: How We Make Our Way Forward (Again) Together Conference”

WATCH: Black Life & The Law: Imani Perry & Anansi Wilson In Conversation

Posted: April 10, 2022
Last Tuesday, we were gifted with time and space to be in conversation with Dr. Imani Perry (JD/PhD). Dr. Perry, beyond being one of the leading voices and scholars of our time–particularly regarding the interplay between law, culture, literature and politics—is generous with her time, spirit and intellect and the video above is no exception. …

WATCH: Black Life & The Law: Imani Perry & Anansi Wilson In Conversation

Monday, Feb. 21 event, Honoring Black Life: Meditations On Our History, Conjuring Our Futures

Posted: February 14, 2022
Panel discussion This dynamic panel features leading thinkers, creators and practitioners across the Black and BlaQueer experience. These writers, lawyers, scholars, musicians and justice advocates offer meditations, renderings and insightful musings about Black living and dying, joy and sorrow and what is means to be Black, here, then and now; while thinking alongside each other …

Monday, Feb. 21 event, Honoring Black Life: Meditations On Our History, Conjuring Our Futures

Save the Date: In Conversation: Exploring the Nexus Between Black Life and the Law with Imani Perry

Posted: February 1, 2022
Tuesday, April 5, 2022 In Conversation: Exploring the Nexus Between Black Life and the Law Online event via Zoom Professor Imani Perry Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University Dr. T. Anansi Wilson Founding Director, Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law

Save the Date: In Conversation: Exploring the Nexus Between Black Life and the Law with Imani Perry