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  • Stigma at Every Step: Mistreatment of Black Americans in the Opioid Crisis

    By Nathan BennettAssociate Editor, Vol. 26             As the COVID-19 crisis extends into its second year in the United States, the years-long epidemic of opioid misuse continues forward—and may be worsening.[1] The opioid crisis is popularly portrayed as a problem of white America—suburban moms hooked on prescription pills…

  • “Professional” Hairstyles: How Title VII Protections Have Condoned the Policing of Black Women’s Hair

    By Jasmine BenjaminAssociate Editor, Vol. 26 Everyone is faced with the question of how to style their hair. However, this decision is of particular social, professional and economic import for Black women. According to recent studies, Black women are 83% more likely to report being judged more harshly on their…

  • The Dismissed Tragedy Behind the Native American Boarding School System

    By: Meghan PateroAssociate Editor, Vol. 26 One thing I’ve realized about myself in law school is that, when reading about historical events, I often downgrade the event’s importance and subsequent consequences. I read the words at face value and dismiss the significance attached to the event at that time. As…

  • Exploring Mapping Inequality: Redlining Close to Home

    By: Eve HastingsAssociate Editor, Vol. 26 Background Mapping Inequality is a website created through the collaboration of three teams at four universities including the University of Richmond, Virginia Tech, University of Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University.[1] I was introduced to the website through my Property professor during the…

  • The Right to Education: Where We Go Next

    By: Daniel BaumAssociate Editor, Vol. 26             This blog calls on scholars and practitioners to advocate, and for courts to hold, that every student in this country—no matter whether they live in Orange, Wayne, or Washtenaw County, or whether their skin is Black, white, or neither—possesses a fundamental right to…

  • Uneven Distribution Leads to Increased Disparate Impact

    By: Emma RosenAssociate Editor, Vol. 26            The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines created a visible light at the end of the long, dark tunnel that has been the past ten months.  This tunnel was even darker for those communities on which COVID-19 has had a disparate impact.  COVID-19…

  • Race and Blackness in Brazil

    By: Thomas DesoutterAssociate Editor, Vol. 26 Brazil is a nation of 210 million people, sixty percent of whom are Black or multiracial. Many of the country’s most celebrated cultural traditions are rooted in the practices of Brazil’s enslaved people and their descendants. The most famous Brazilian of all time, the…

  • How the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Fails Minority Students

     By: Liza DavisAssociate Editor, Vol. 26               Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), every child with a disability who participates in a state school system accepting federal special education funds is guaranteed a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment appropriate.[i] Instead of ensuring that all…

  • The Danger of Using “Terrorism” to Describe the Capitol Attack

    By: Aashna RaoAssociate Editor, Vol. 26 On January 7, 2021, the day after the attack on the Capitol, President Joe Biden said of the Trump supporters who participated, “Don’t dare call them protestors. They were…domestic terrorists.”[1] Biden’s use of the word “terrorists” to describe the violent mob was intended…

  • Undermining the Prosecutor

    By: Thomas DesoutterAssociate Editor, Vol. 26 The most famous sheriff in U.S. history is Bull Connor, the Alabama lawman who turned fire hoses on peaceful civil rights protesters in defense of white supremacy. No prosecutor is quite so recognizable by name, but many a District Attorney is infamous…