Watch: State of Black Life & The Law Speaker Series: Carework, Death Work & Abolition
Posted: February 12, 2024
What do we do when the law is either not enough, or the chief architect of our demise? In this dialogue scholars, organizers, artists and mental health professionals come together to meditate on how we practice care outside of formal legal frameworks–and mediate democratized harm–without sacrificing our lives in the process. Featuring: Hunter Shackleford, …
Watch: State Of Black Life & The Law: A BlaQueer Lens
Posted: January 10, 2024
On November 16th at 6:30CT, we started our lead up speakers series, to our first annual “State of Black Life and The Law Symposium,” with a panel “The State of Black Life and the Law: A BlaQueer Lens” featuring a selection of interdisciplinary BlaQueer, trans and nonbinary scholars of democracy, race, political theory, gender/sexuality, Black …
Center Partners with Vote.Org & MyBalbo To Launch Voting Rights, Access & Suppression Series
Posted: October 25, 2023
In October, the Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law and Dr. Anansi Wilson partnered with the new social media and youth civic engagement app MyBalbo (available on every app store) Vote.org the “the largest 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan voting registration and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) technology platform in America” to launch a multi-episode series …
Center Partners with Vote.Org & MyBalbo To Launch Voting Rights, Access & Suppression Series
SAVE THE DATE 11.16.23 “State of Black Life and the Law: A BlaQueer Lens”
Posted: October 24, 2023
We are thrilled to announce the first of a series of virtual roundtables featuring local, national and international scholars, organizers, artists, public officials and others interrogating and exploring “The State of Black Life and the Law” as it stands today. On November 16th at 6:30CT, we will start with “The State of Black Life and …
SAVE THE DATE 11.16.23 “State of Black Life and the Law: A BlaQueer Lens”
Watch: Becoming Our Ancestors Wildest Dreams: Black Women Law Students & Alumnae Reflect On Juneteenth, Black Life and the Law
Posted: August 16, 2023
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law, “Becoming Our Ancestors Wildest Dreams: Black MHSL Students & Alumnae Reflect on Juneteenth, Black Life & The Law” featured reflections from, and a panel by, four Black women students and alumnae from Mitchell Hamline School of Law. They then engaged in a …
Mitchell Hamline joins St. Paul effort to remove racial covenants
Posted: May 10, 2023
Mitchell Hamline School of Law will work with the City of Saint Paul to help homeowners remove discriminatory racial covenants on their property deeds. The partnership, announced Monday, is part of the city’s move to become one of nearly two dozen Minnesota cities to in a coalition called Just Deeds. Just Deeds is a collaborative …
Mitchell Hamline joins St. Paul effort to remove racial covenants
Watch: Furtive Blackness & The Afterlives of Slavery Law Review Symposium
Posted: May 2, 2023
Thank you to all who joined us last Friday for Furtive Blackness & The Afterlives of Slavery, the Mitchell Hamline Law Review & Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law spring symposium. You can find links to recordings below if you missed the fantastic panels or would like to rewatch them to let …
Watch: Furtive Blackness & The Afterlives of Slavery Law Review Symposium
Watch: Dr. Anansi Wilson (MHSL) and Professor Lua Kamál Yuille (Harvard Law) Discuss Roots of Racial Capitalism
Posted: March 30, 2023
This dialogue on racial capitalism was sponsored by the Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, The Law and Political Economy Association at Harvard Law School and their respective Black Law Student Associations, as well as the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Law Review. It was …
Watch: Dr. Wilson Delivers Westminster Town Hall Forum Lecture 2.28.23
Posted: March 4, 2023
Center Releases Letter in Support of Office of Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls
Posted: February 19, 2023
We are announcing our strong support of the creation of the Office of Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls. Read our statement, joined by the Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute, the Institute to Transform Child Protection and the Dispute Resolution Institute. Letter Supporting Office of Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls
Center Releases Letter in Support of Office of Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls