By: Olivia Arline Background and Decision Last year, in American Alliance for Equal Rights v. Fearless Fund, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit struck down a venture capital fund’s contest that provides grants to black women-owned businesses. Fearless Fund (Fearless) is a venture capital fund that seeks to “bridge the gap in […]
By: Bella Tambornino California’s Race-Blind Charging Act promises a bold experiment in criminal justice reform: a prosecutorial process free from racial bias. Enacted in September 2022 through Assembly Bill 2778 (“AB 2778”), the law requires prosecutors to make charging decisions “based on information, from which all means of identifying the race of the suspect, […]
By: Sydney Perkins Post-conviction proceedings reveal a striking asymmetry. While the introduction of scientifically invalid forensic evidence can easily secure a conviction, newly discovered evidence undermining that conviction rarely guarantees relief. Such evidence, rather than securing immediate exoneration, frequently becomes the basis for coercive prosecutorial bargaining. Consider the following scenario: after spending nearly […]
By Staci Gamble Always unseen and never documented, the struggles of black farmers are constantly overlooked because of discrimination and insufficient data collection by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA is an extraordinarily powerful entity that accounts for allotments, credits, information, and access to government funding.[1] In 1997, the USDA took over the […]
