In 1950, Thomas was appointed judge of the neighborhood’s Black municipal court, a segregated court, making him the first ...

At Legalweek, the legal industry's annual gathering of thousands of lawyers, artificial intelligence took the stand for a ...

The Justice Department’s $12.6 million settlement with more than 400 Black special agents who were denied promotions under ...

The office, which sits along Northwest Second Avenue in Overtown, was where lawyer Lawson E. Thomas worked on high-profile cases, such as fighting for equal education for Black students in Broward ...

Civil rights attorney Austin Porter Jr. represents the plaintiffs, who previously filed complaints with the Equal Employment ...

Elia "needed to be able to perceive the evidence with his own senses," the judge told him, according to the Brooklyn Federal ...

Black and Japanese American advocates discussed shared struggles and support for reparations at a Sacramento event.

“You’re going to see Black law firms, Black accounting firms, Black engineering firms, architectural firms not get those professional-services deals. For us in Black-owned media, we’re going ...

In 1968, Algernon Johnson "A.J." Cooper, former mayor of Prichard, Alabama, founded the Black American Law Students Association (BALSA) at the New York University Law School. BALSA's purpose was to ...

Inspired by the likes of Faith Ringgold, Mickalene Thomas, Jacob Lawrence, Romaire Bearden, and Wangechi Mutu, Self illustrates the modernity of Black life and, more specifically, the iconographic ...

Statistics from 2024 show that Black women make up only 4.1% of all lawyers in the U.S. The numbers make it clear — representation for Black women in the legal field is an uphill battle. The legal ...

Saint Louis University School of Law is a globally connected Catholic, Jesuit law school in an urban setting with 175 years of history. The strength of the faculty, breadth of course offerings and ...