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Center Partners with Vote.Org & MyBalbo To Launch Voting Rights, Access & Suppression Series

Posted: October 25, 2023
In October, the Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law and Dr. Anansi Wilson partnered with the new social media and youth civic engagement app MyBalbo (available on every app store) Vote.org the “the largest 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan voting registration and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) technology platform in America” to launch a multi-episode series …

Center Partners with Vote.Org & MyBalbo To Launch Voting Rights, Access & Suppression Series

SAVE THE DATE 11.16.23 “State of Black Life and the Law: A BlaQueer Lens”

Posted: October 24, 2023
We are thrilled to announce the first of a series of virtual roundtables featuring local, national and international scholars, organizers, artists, public officials and others interrogating and exploring “The State of Black Life and the Law” as it stands today. On November 16th at 6:30CT, we will start with “The State of Black Life and …

SAVE THE DATE 11.16.23 “State of Black Life and the Law: A BlaQueer Lens”

Watch: Becoming Our Ancestors Wildest Dreams: Black Women Law Students & Alumnae Reflect On Juneteenth, Black Life and the Law

Posted: August 16, 2023
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law, “Becoming Our Ancestors Wildest Dreams: Black MHSL Students & Alumnae Reflect on Juneteenth, Black Life & The Law” featured reflections from, and a panel by, four Black women students and alumnae from Mitchell Hamline School of Law. They then engaged in a …

Watch: Becoming Our Ancestors Wildest Dreams: Black Women Law Students & Alumnae Reflect On Juneteenth, Black Life and the Law

Mitchell Hamline joins St. Paul effort to remove racial covenants

Posted: May 10, 2023
Mitchell Hamline School of Law will work with the City of Saint Paul to help homeowners remove discriminatory racial covenants on their property deeds. The partnership, announced Monday, is part of the city’s move to become one of nearly two dozen Minnesota cities to in a coalition called Just Deeds. Just Deeds is a collaborative …

Mitchell Hamline joins St. Paul effort to remove racial covenants

Watch: Furtive Blackness & The Afterlives of Slavery Law Review Symposium

Posted: May 2, 2023
    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 …

Watch: Furtive Blackness & The Afterlives of Slavery Law Review Symposium

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”