David Alan Johnson (Chief)

Haywood County. Watson Fellow. @univofthesouth’19. MPP Candidate and Pearson Fellow @HarrisPolicy / @UChicago. J.D. Candidate @pennlaw #TransitionalJustice

[University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School @pennlaw]

🎉 Congrats to Astonique Robinson L’25, the first Penn Carey Law student to receive the @SusmanGodfrey Prize, which provides law students of color ongoing mentorship from the firm's partners and associates. https://t.co/luNTqOkVwG

[The Associated Press @AP]

Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for Roger Fortson’s family said Wednesday.

[Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard]

Emory University Economics professor Caroline Fohlin's arrest video was bad in a vacuum but seeing what precedes it makes it even worse.

Dark times.

[Mary Littleton @MaryLittleton]

64 yrs ago today, in the early morning hours, terrorists attempted to assassinate attorney & Nashville Councilman Z. Alexander Looby & his wife Grafta by bombing their North Nashville home.

[University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School @pennlaw]

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Cathie Struve, honored with @Penn's 2024 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. https://t.co/9XiZtvpBsb

[NBC News @NBCNews]

In a challenge to the state’s new anti-DEI rules, the head of the NAACP is calling on Black student athletes to reconsider attending Florida public colleges and universities. https://t.co/Mc8oNxLUgu

[Janai Nelson @JNelsonLDF]

What a rock star line-up of LDF alums @DamonTHewitt @CaraMcClellan6 Johnathan Smith and @ChristinaSwarns. Huge congrats to @RossDeuel on receiving a well-deserved award from @pennlaw’s BLSA!

[Christina Swarns @ChristinaSwarns]

What a beautiful evening! Thanks to @pennlaw’s Black Law Student Association for hosting this @NAACP_LDF reunion! @Smith_JohnJ gave the powerful keynote, @RossDeuel was recognized for his extraordinary democracy work and I received a lifetime achievement award.

[University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School @pennlaw]

On Saturday, February 17, Penn Carey Law’s BLSA is hosting the 36th Annual Sadie T.M. Alexander Commemorative Conference, which will focus on the past, present, and future of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. https://t.co/P4oKcdSvXZ

[CBS Mornings @CBSMornings]

Spelman College announces a record-breaking $100 million donation — the largest-ever single donation to any HBCU: “Today is a major step to ensure more young women can achieve their dreams.”

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

I was today years old when I found out this is John Hope Franklin’s father. What a lineage

[Melissa Murray (@ProfMMurray on Threads 🧵) @ProfMMurray]

🧵 on Justice Thomas's GoFundMe campaign.

[Janai Nelson @JNelsonLDF]

The 8th Circuit's decision holding that private citizens can't enforce Sec. 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965- as they have since its inception-is a disgraceful circumvention of precedent & a welcome mat for accelerated & targeted voting discrimination. https://t.co/Qn6tjdYdlN

[Janai Nelson @JNelsonLDF]

BLACK FARMERS: The Inflation Reduction Act provides $2.2 billion in financial assistance for farmers, ranchers & forest landowners who experienced discrimination in USDA’s lending programs b4 Jan. 1, 2021. Applications are open, free & due Jan. 13, 2024. https://t.co/4GYixsuOyD

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On November 10, 1898, a shocking coup was executed in Wilmington, North Carolina, as white mobs led by former Confederate Colonel Alfred Moore Waddell overthrew the city’s elected biracial government and massacred 60 or more Black men. https://t.co/YTgcusiLaZ

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1931, a segregated Georgia hospital refused to admit Juliette Derricotte, Dean of Fisk University, and one of her students after a serious car accident. They both died as a result. https://t.co/VNnXKAA3iq

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1893, a white mob lynched Bob Hudson, a Black man, in Weakley County, TN, after he defended his wife, who was targeted because she filed assault charges against a white man. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/HgBsrzNB2e

[Penn @Penn]

.@pennlaw student Jalen Starks worked this summer on mergers and acquisitions issues as a 1L summer associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, an international law firm.
https://t.co/jPrjs2l5Np

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

I can’t stop watching this

[Thurgood Marshall Institute @TMI_LDF]

Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first Black Supreme Court Justice #OTD in 1967.

His tremendous legacy as a civil rights leader lives on here at the Thurgood Marshall Institute.