In 1968, Algernon Johnson "A.J." Cooper, former mayor of Prichard, Alabama, founded the Black American Law Students Association (BALSA) at the New York University Law School. BALSA's purpose was to ...

Lott’s family walked the halls of the University of Texas at Austin Law School, more than 70 years after he became the first Black student to graduate from ... the environment we’re in today, a lot of ...

A year after the Supreme Court banned race-based admissions, the law school’s first-year Black student enrollment plummeted — ...

The Boston College Law School chapter of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA ... a legal mechanism that has deprived people of color and poor people of real estate for over a century. BLSA ...

More than 100 years after Charlotte Ray became the first African American woman to graduate from a U.S. law school, challenges remain for Black women in the legal profession, panelists said at the web ...

Utah’s strict laws blocking diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives have been playing out to mixed reviews on its ...

Students at Michigan State University's law school have found that slavery is still baked into American jurisprudence.

A year after the Supreme Court banned race-based admissions, the law school’s first-year Black student enrollment plummeted — with repercussions way beyond the classroom. Harvard Law School ...