By Brooke Tucker
I attended the first Law for Black Lives![]()
Conference in New York last week. The Conference – filled with attorneys, law students, legal-aid workers and others affiliated with the legal community – had one theme: How do we use the law to protect black lives?
As a civil-rights lawyer, I spend every day trying to figure out how to use the law to obtain rights for (insert group here). So, when I heard that question posed, it did not immediately occur to me just how radical—and incredibly important—it was to frame the question in that way.
I attended the first Law for Black Lives
Conference in New York last week. The Conference – filled with attorneys, law students, legal-aid workers and others affiliated with the legal community – had one theme: How do we use the law to protect black lives? As a civil-rights lawyer, I spend every day trying to figure out how to use the law to obtain rights for (insert group here). So, when I heard that question posed, it did not immediately occur to me just how radical—and incredibly important—it was to frame the question in that way.