The Mitchell Hamline Law Review in coordination with the Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law highlighted and explored Furtive Blackness & The Afterlives of Slavery as part of the spring symposium. Links to the recordings are below. Also, read on for details regarding recommended readings and works of authors mentioned during the panels, and how to stay connected to the work of the below organizations.
Recordings
Panel 1: 9:45-11 a.m. CDT 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 Gillian Mwangi, President of the Black Law Students Association
Presidential Roundtable: 1:30-3:15 p.m. CDT 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 (Ph.D.),Assistant Professor of English & Black Studies, Amherst College
- Michele Alexandre, Dean and Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
- Etienne Toussaint, Assistant Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law
- Shirley E. Thompson (Ph.D.), 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/Ph.D