Tag: Black Girls and the Law
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Black Maternal Health Week: What It Took for Me to Be Heard
There is a particular kind of knowing that comes with pregnancy. It is not clinical. It is not something you can chart or quantify. But it is real. You know your body, you know that precious being growing in you. The first time I experienced it, I was dismissed. The First Loss: When Knowing Was…
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This Is When I Stopped Believing the Law Was Neutral
Law school is often described as the place where idealism is refined into realism. Latasha Harlins, age 14. That is not what happened to me. What law school refined was my understanding of how comfortable educated people can be with injustice…so long as it can be defended. One of the earliest moments that permanently altered…
Sadity Esq 