Black History April

Objection your honor: Bar Exam Comes Under Further Scrutiny

When the coronavirus pandemic struck, some states allowed law graduates to postpone taking the two-day, 12-hour exam for public health reasons. Meanwhile, George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis in May 2020, and subsequent racial unrest that summer, raised awareness of the bar exam’s role in keeping people of color out of the profession.

Group Begins Work to Revitalize Africatown Community

 Longtime residents of the Mobile community called “Africatown USA” recall the days when it was a beehive of activity, with Black descendants of the last slave ship to land in the United States tending gardens, running businesses and filling churches. Today, much of the place is a dilapidated landscape of empty lots and ramshackle, vacant homes.