Prof. Tomiko Brown-Nagin

We air part of the third installment of the March 2022 installment of our Full Bio series about the life and career of Constance Baker Motley.

The first of our March Full Bio series with Tomiko Brown-Nagin, author of a new biography about federal judge, civil rights lawyer and NY politician Constance Baker Motley.

For our final installment of Full Bio this month, we discuss the latter part of Constance Baker Motley's career and her appointment to the federal judiciary with Tomiko Brown-Nagin.

We air the third installment of the March installment of our Full Bio series about the life and career of Constance Baker Motley.

We continue our March Full Bio series on Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman appointed to the federal judiciary, and examine her early legal career.

For our final installment of Full Bio this month, we discuss the latter part of Constance Baker Motley's career and her appointment to the federal judiciary with Tomiko Brown-Nagin.

We air the third installment of the March installment of our Full Bio series about the life and career of Constance Baker Motley.

We continue our March Full Bio series on Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman appointed to the federal judiciary, and examine her early legal career.

We kick off our March Full Bio series with Tomiko Brown-Nagin, author of a new biography about federal judge, civil rights lawyer and NY politician Constance Baker Motley.

Under the Trump Administration, the Department of Justice (DOJ) will take on affirmative action, with the goal of reducing discrimination against white students in college admissions.

Virginia's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is one of several politicians spearheading a proposal for re-balancing state and federal power, through what's being called the "repeal amendment." The amendment to the Constitution would, with a vote of 33 states' legislatures, give states the ability to repeal any federal law passed in Congress. Virginia has a long history of states' rights activism — in response to the federally-mandated desegregation of schools in the 1950s, state leaders responded with "massive resistance," choosing to privatize some school districts to prevent integration. As the South commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Confederacy, is this new emphasis on states' rights a step towards secessionism?