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MORNING PANELS ADDED: Furtive Blackness & The Afterlives of Slavery

Posted: April 25, 2023

We hope you will join us this Friday, April 28th, for a special partnership between the Mitchell Hamline Law Review and the Center for the Study of Black Life and the law, titled “Furtive Blackness & The Afterlives of Slavery.” Register here. This is a virtual, all day symposium that will begin with panels:

Panel 1: 9:45-11am Local Governance, Local Change and National Impacts

Moderated by MHSL Law Review Editor in Chief, Deven Bowdry

Panel 2: 11:15-12:30pm Policy Matters: The Work & Process of Sustaining Black Life

  • Justin Terrell, Executive Director, Minnesota Justice Research Center
  • Ta’mara Hill, Policy Director, Minnesota Justice Research Institute
  • Amber Jones, Managing Director (Policy Impact), African American Leadership Forum Twin Cities (TBD)
  • Perry Moriearty, Associate Professor of Law, UMN (TBD)

Moderated by BLSA President, Gillian Mwangi

*note there is a possibility the first two panels are merged, as the legislative session is not yet finished and requires us to be nimble*

Presidential Roundtable: 1:30-3:15pm 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 (PhD), Assistant Professor of English & Black Studies, Amherst College
  • Michele Alexandre, Dean and Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
  • Etienne Touissant, Assistant Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law
  • Shirley E. Thompson (PhD), 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/PhD.