My shero @deborahnarcher.bsky.social giving the keynote to close out another incredible Sadie TM Alexander conference hosted by @penncareylaw.bsky.social BLSA.

Yesterday’s Community Lawyering Panel honoring the civil rights legacy of Sadie T.M. Alexander. @phillydefenders.bsky.social @michaelcoard.bsky.social

‼️BREAKING: The district court has ruled that the National Park Service must reinstate the educational panels that make up the exhibit at the President’s House Slavery Memorial. Proud to represent Avenging the Ancestors Coalition and the Black Journey in their fight for truth and accurate history.

Bravo 👏🏾 👏🏾👏🏾

The removal of the exhibits at the President’s House is part of a widespread effort to censor slavery from national memory. ARC Justice is proud to represent Avenging the Ancestors and the Black Journey walking tours demanding that our stories not be erased. www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

New article 🚨‼️ Forthcoming in the Clinical Law Review papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Thanks to the clients, students, and colleagues who have shaped my pedagogy, especially comrades at @abolitionistlawcenter.org and @abolitionschool.bsky.social

Parent advocates have been fighting school pushout since the first school desegregation order went into effect. This early history can teach us so much today. I’ve been thinking about writing this article since litigating desegregation cases at @legaldefensefund.bsky.social and it’s finally out!

This was not the kind of conspiracy that the Reconstruction-era was intended to address. Just the opposite… www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

I serve as the Criminal Legal chair of the Philly reparations task force. Our committee has been hard at work studying the legacy of slavery & Jim Crow in Philadelphia. We want to hear from you! @abolitionistlawcenter.org @abolitionschool.bsky.social @phillydefenders.bsky.social @ysrp.bsky.social

This deserves more airtime. Especially in Philly. Especially given all of the tax breaks we give Comcast. Yet, they chose to fund this over so many underfunded institutions in dire need… www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

Can’t wait to join this needed conversation at a critical time!

Always a pleasure to join WURD. Join us this weekend for the Ed Equity Summit! m.soundcloud.com/onwurd/miche...

As Chicago Public Schools advances its Black Student Success Plan amid federal inquiry, Associate Practice Prof. Cara McClellan (@racelawjawn.bsky.social) tells ChalkBeat, "What we're seeing is an attempt by the Trump administration and conservative groups to say that Students for Fair..." Read more

This a critical case to watch in PA. triblive.com/news/pennsyl...

New on SSRN: The legal attack on race consciousness in charitable work has distinct implications from the SCOTU’s rollback of other efforts to limit race-conscious state action. It raises questions regarding the law’s role in regulating voluntary private action. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This is now a Jalen Hurts fan account.

This essay appears as part of the symposium, "Racial Justice after SFFA v. Harvard," which I had the honor of co-chairing alongside Jamelia Morgan, @racelawjawn.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and Sheldon Bernard Lyke. You can read the full symposium issue here: northwesternlawreview.org/issues/

Conservative legal groups are attempting to rely on Reconstruction-era legislation to prevent nonprofits and other privately organized orgs from engaging in race-conscious work. I explain why this is ahistorical and what we can do about it. scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol120/...

Celebrating #LaborDay, a time to honor the contributions and achievements of workers, is a reminder to push for change. We must continue to fight for fair wages and conditions in prison and defend the dignity of all incarcerated people until mass incarceration is ended for good.

Holidays are cool. But reparations ✊🏾

The last time National Guard troops were federalized against a governors will was...to ensure desegregation. Guardsmen have been called out to quell large scale civic unrest, the last being 1992 LA Riots, but nothing that happened today comes at all close. www.nationalguard.mil/Portals/31/R...

McClellan on the Origins of the School-to-Prison Pipeline, buff.ly/Y5eHttA - Cara McClellan (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School) has posted THE PERSISTENCE OF SCHOOL PUSHOUT AS RACIAL SUBORDINATION on SSRN.

Cara McClellan tells @nytimes.com she viewed the Education Department’s shift on the mascot issue as part of a broader agenda to undermine the legacy of a law that helped dismantle Jim Crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/n...

I wrote about Pres. Trump’s attempt to use school discipline as a tool for racial exclusion: thehill.com/opinion/civi...