Virtual Leadership Luncheon w/ Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

The Leadership Luncheon engages the community in current events that affect our local communities and our nation. Our speakers are prominent community leaders who are working to commemorate and sustain Dr. King’s legacy of service and equality for all.

Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is a Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). She teaches classes in Constitutional Law, Race and the Law, Evidence, and Gender and Justice. She taught in the Africana Studies Program at Vassar College prior to John Jay. She is a civil rights attorney who litigated cases for Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc.  She addresses audiences nationally and internationally. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall has spoken on issues of law and justice in France, Ghana, Rwanda, England, Wales, Canada, South Africa and before the United Nations in Geneva and New York City.

Professor Browne-Marshall is the author of the forthcoming book “She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power.” She has written many articles and other books including “The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice” (Rowman & Littlefield) and “Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present,” (Routledge) which includes chapters on race and Education, Voting Rights, Criminal Justice, Property, Civil Liberties and Protest, the Military and Internationalism concerning African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans and Native Americans. She is working on a documentary film titled “She Took Justice” to accompany the book.