Looking for diversity credit? The roundtable from 1:30-3:15 pm is approved diversity programming that will count as 1.5 hours toward the MH’s diversity credit requirement. The morning panel on is likely eligible as well. Register here.
“Furtive Blackness” is theory that argues that Black people are rendered both in and outside of law—in, insofar as being reachable by its disciplinary arms, but outside of the full scope of its constitutional protections—while “the afterlives of slavery” refers to the following quote by Saidya Hartman:
If slavery persists as an issue in the political life of black America, it is not because of an antiquarian obsession with bygone days or the burden of a too-long memory, but because black lives are still imperiled and devalued by a racial calculus and a political arithmetic that were entrenched centuries ago. This is the afterlife of slavery–skewed life chances, limited access to health and education, premature death, incarceration, and impoverishment.
The panel will focus on these concepts with a focus on how panelists grapple with these realities in their day-to-day work and with an eye toward current legislative priorities.
Panel 1: 9:45-11am 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 Mitchell Hamline Law Review Editor in Chief, Deven Bowdry
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.