Law Students for Black Lives

✊🏾Started by law students at the University of Texas ✊🏾 Learn how racism poisons the legal system and how we solve it ✊🏾#BLM

IG: @lsforblacklives

[Law Students for Black Lives @lsforblacklives]

Co-Founder and Co-President of LS4BL on Juneteenth. Today is a day of joy, celebration, and unprecedented power. We both honor the resilience of Black liberation throughout history in the face of white supremacy AND we continue pushing.

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

I’m thinking about the Black, brown, low-income, queer, and young folks in Texas. The folks this abortion health care ban will disproportionately harm.

Wealthy white folks will have the means to access abortion care. Our communities won’t.

[Law Students for Black Lives @lsforblacklives]

LS4BL Welcome Back Email! - https://t.co/duFtfOCy2L

[Congresswoman Cori Bush (Archived) @RepCori]

It’s time to transform public safety.

That’s why I’m introducing the People’s Response Act.

[Law Students for Black Lives @lsforblacklives]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/MlCnjGhKdX

[BLACK ARCHIVES @blackarchivesco]

Footage of Juneteenth parades and events from 1979-1991 from the KXAS-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas.

This compiled footage features b-roll and news clips held at the UNT Library, Special Collections.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

This photo was taken in 1900 at a #JuneTeenth celebration in Austin Tx! It was organized by The Freedmen’s Bureau, a government agency established after the Civil War to support newly liberated slaves.

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

On this Juneteenth, remember that millions of incarcerated Black people are still in bondage and that the 13th Amendment still permits slavery.

Our work is Black liberation in its totality.

[TFDP @FairDefense]

Wow. Travis County Commissioners are indicating they will vote unanimously to delay the women's jail for at least a year. This is an incredible turn of events from this morning, after 3.5 hours of testimony.

Y'all, our community did this. Formerly incarcerated people did this.

[Rebecca Kavanagh @DrRJKavanagh]

The teenager who had his hands up and was not in any way physically interacting with police (let alone physically resisting) when he was tasered, collapsed unconscious on the ground, was then hogtied, and placed in a police van.

[Rebecca Kavanagh @DrRJKavanagh]

Police in Ocean City Maryland tasered a 17-year-old teenager after they accused him of vaping yesterday. https://t.co/PVzagAV5i1

[Law Students for Black Lives @lsforblacklives]

Friendly reminder to fix your focus. https://t.co/i8RFEpy3b2

[Law Students for Black Lives @lsforblacklives]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/3zhuO8i3uY

[Law Students for Black Lives @lsforblacklives]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/G8IhjgQ8i7

[Law Students for Black Lives @lsforblacklives]

With over 95 signatures in less than 15 hours, we are confident that our concerns are shared by a vast portion of the Texas Law student body.

https://t.co/ot0WIXilDX

[Law Students for Black Lives @lsforblacklives]

Today, we sent Dean Farnsworth this open letter asking him to condemn the recent, hateful words of Texas Law alumni, acknowledge the racist history of “The Eyes of Texas,” and reaffirm Texas Law’s commitment to diversity, inclusion and equity.

[GRITS Conference @GRITSConference]

#GRITS2021 #OrganizinginLawSchool spkrs? Alyssa Gordon (TexasLaw '22)-co-founder&Co-ExecDir of @lsforblacklives, an organization working to eradicate racial disparity in America’s legal system, amplify Black voices & empwr ALL comms in the fight to eliminate inst&systemic racism

[TFDP @FairDefense]

The inhumanity of it all.

[Sheela Ranganathan @sheelaranga]

Data from my class’s research on COVID, Corrections and Oversight was published today- this thread contains some of the devastating findings from this project.