Read our explainer and brief filed with @aclupa.org @phillydefenders.bsky.social www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/1...

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 was part of the symposium, "Racial Justice after SFFA v. Harvard.” You can read the full symposium issue here: northwesternlawreview.org/issue. Thank you to the brilliant student editors and co-hosts Profs. Jamelia Morgan, @yuvrajjoshi.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and Sheldon Bernard Lyke.

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...