Clarence Thomas has served on the U.S. Supreme Court since 1991. African American and born in poverty in Pinpoint, Georgia, Thomas attended Yale Law School and took the place of Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights attorney and first African American on the Supreme Court. Those facts should bring pride to the Black community. Unfortunately, from […]
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Charge Buffalo Massacre Defendant Under Anti-Lynching Law
By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall John Jay College of Criminal Justice George Floyd was a victim of lynching two years ago. The mass murder of African Americans in Buffalo, N.Y., was also a lynching, says Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, professor of constitutional law at John Jay College (CUNY). Our nation must accept that lynching continues and use […]
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“SHOT” – The Drama of InJustice
By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall His teenage body lay cooking in the August heat as the world watched. Michael Brown, 18, was dead on the street of Ferguson, Missouri, shot by Police Officer Darren Wilson. This image from 2014 has never left me. The deaths of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Breonna Taylor, […]
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“Electoral College Drama Ahead – Pence Must Announce Biden Wins”
By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall Presidential voting drama will continue into 2021. One hundred Republicans in the House of Representatives joined a failed Texas lawsuit challenging the Presidential election results rebuffed by the U.S. Supreme Court. A Joint Session of Congress must certify the Electoral votes received from the Electoral College or meeting of the state […]
SHOT: Caught a Soul
A gunshot rings out in the dark. There are only two witnesses to this deadly encounter. Officer O’Donald, a White cop, swears he feared for his life. Kareem, a 16-year old Black teenager, tells a different story, laying in a pool of blood. What happened that night? The system turned against the victim. But there […]
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Kamala Harris: Making History While Remembering Her-story
By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall Kamala D. Harris is the Democratic nominee for Vice-President of the United States. Her acceptance speech was laced with reflections about her late South-Asian mother and the Black women who laid the path for this moment. Due to COVID-19 and social distancing, the Democratic National Convention was without fanfare. But her […]
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George Floyd’s killing in Minnesota still hasn’t gotten an anti-lynching law through Congress
This article was originally published by www.nbcnews.com Floyd’s death at the hands of police is a tragic marker of the 100th anniversary of the last lynching in the state. By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall Professor of constitutional law at John Jay College Anyone can see that the lynching of more than 4,000 people over the history […]
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George Floyd: Protests, Police, and Prosecutors
By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall Gloria J. Browne-Marshall: This is “Law of the Land.” The relationship between the prosecutor and the police department is so close. That same prosecutor who is so efficient in getting indictments and charging papers for civilian upon civilian crimes becomes completely inept when a police officer is a defendant. We have […]
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African American Health Disparities and COVID-19
By Gloria Browne-Marshall Gloria Browne-Marshall: Like it or not, wear a mask. A hundred years ago, the Spanish Flu was a global pandemic. An epidemic involving more than one continent is a pandemic. I am joined by Dr. Johnson, a brilliant nurse and professor at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing. What did you think […]
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Practicing Law in a Pandemic
By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall Gloria J. Browne-Marshall: The U.S. Supreme Court’s building will be closed to the public. Under the Sixth Amendment, “in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial.” These are unprecedented times for the practice of law. People in jail, accused of a crime, with […]