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Friday, January 22, 2021


 

From the December-January 2020-2021 magazine

Meet a new chief public defender in Texas working to end criminal justice disparities

As a public defender in the Bronx, New York, for almost a decade, Adeola Ogunkeyede saw firsthand how patterns of institutional racism and systemic inequality impacted her clients even before they entered the criminal justice system. She started to wonder: Was there a way to break those destructive cycles?


 

The Modern Law Library

'White Fright' author discusses historical lynch mobs and the attack on the Capitol

Historian Jane Dailey was saddened by the events in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, but the riot at the U.S. Capitol did not seem unfamiliar to her. Dailey discusses her new book and what America's history with lynch mobs can teach us about the attack on the Capitol.

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