ProfVRandall
@profvrandall.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus of Law University of Dayon. creator/editor of Race,Racism and the Law (1995). Https://racism.org
Racial justice update for September 27–October 3, 2026: census race data, Black unemployment, voting rights, health care, housing, immigration enforcement, Muslim civil rights, corporate slavery disclosures, and tribal sovereignty. racism.org/about/latest...
Weekly Racial Justice Update: September 27–October 3, 2026
Vernellia R. Randall, Weekly Racial Justice Update: September 27–October 3, 2026, Racism.org (October 4, 2026).
Racial injustice operates through decisions about whose experiences are counted, whose ...
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October 5, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Racial justice update for September 27–October 3, 2026: census race data, Black unemployment, voting rights, health care, housing, immigration enforcement, Muslim civil rights, corporate slavery disclosures, and tribal sovereignty. racism.org/about/latest...
xamines how the 1996 immigration laws connect anti-Black criminalization with detention and deportation, and develops an abolition constitutionalism framework. racism.org/articles/cit...
-Black Beyond Borders: An Analysis of the 1996 Immigration Laws and the Invisibility of Black Immigrants
Abstract
Excerpted From: Annaelle Clara Lafontant, Black Beyond Borders: An Analysis of the 1996 Immigration Laws and the Invisibility of Black Immigrants, 17 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Crit...
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October 4, 2026 at 11:27 AM
xamines how the 1996 immigration laws connect anti-Black criminalization with detention and deportation, and develops an abolition constitutionalism framework. racism.org/articles/cit...
Explains how anti-DEI pressure may reverse #MeToo gains by weakening workplace diversity, reporting, and anti-harassment systems. racism.org/articles/law...
#MeToo vs. Anti-DEI
Abstract
Excerpted From: Nicole Buonocore Porter, #MeToo vs. Anti-DEI, 72 Wayne L. Rev. 157 (Summer 2026) (Full Document)
The #MeToo movement has lost some steam since 2017 but is still relevant. ...
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September 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Explains how anti-DEI pressure may reverse #MeToo gains by weakening workplace diversity, reporting, and anti-harassment systems. racism.org/articles/law...
Examines the proposed colorblind census, school desegregation, workplace discrimination, Indigenous sovereignty and health, immigration detention, environmental justice, pro-Palestinian campus speech, and Arab American and Muslim civil rights. racism.org/about/latest...
Weekly Racial Justice Update: September 20–26, 2026
Vernellia R. Randall, Weekly Racial Justice Update: September 20–26, 2026, Racism.org (September 27, 2026).
Introduction
This week’s developments show how racial inequality is sustained through gove...
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September 27, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Examines the proposed colorblind census, school desegregation, workplace discrimination, Indigenous sovereignty and health, immigration detention, environmental justice, pro-Palestinian campus speech, and Arab American and Muslim civil rights. racism.org/about/latest...
Examines how thick-skin bias can undervalue noneconomic damages for low-income plaintiffs and identifies research and reform options. racism.org/articles/def...
Noneconomic Tort Damages and Biased Beliefs About Vulnerability to Harm
Abstract
Excerpted From: Nathan N. Cheek and Roseanna Sommers, Noneconomic Tort Damages and Biased Beliefs About Vulnerability to Harm, 75 DePaul L. Rev. 315 (Winter 2026) (Full Document)
A plaint...
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September 27, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Examines how thick-skin bias can undervalue noneconomic damages for low-income plaintiffs and identifies research and reform options. racism.org/articles/def...
This week’s racial justice update examines threats to census race data, voting rights and environmental justice; immigration arrests; tribal sovereignty; anti-Muslim and anti-Sikh hostility; Palestinian exclusion; and racial disparities in maternal mental-health cases. racism.org/articles/cit...
Re-Rethinking Asian Exclusion and Color-Blind Immigration
Abstract
Excerpted From: Gabriel J. Chin, Re-Rethinking Asian Exclusion and Color-Blind Immigration, 79 Southern Methodist University Law Review 35 (Winter 2026) (98 Footnotes) (Full Document)
AT ...
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September 23, 2026 at 11:42 AM
This week’s racial justice update examines threats to census race data, voting rights and environmental justice; immigration arrests; tribal sovereignty; anti-Muslim and anti-Sikh hostility; Palestinian exclusion; and racial disparities in maternal mental-health cases. racism.org/articles/cit...
Uses Black feminist theory and interviews with Black mother-advocates to examine how race, gender, class, and disability shape special-education advocacy, parental rights, school distrust, misdiagnosis, placement, and discipline. racism.org/articles/bas...
Cultivating Motherwork: Gender, Race, and Rights in Special Education Advocacy
Abstract
Excerpted From: LaToya Baldwin Clark, Cultivating Motherwork: Gender, Race, and Rights in Special Education Advocacy, 111 Iowa L. Rev. 1903 (July 2026) (Full Document)
On January 20, 2020...
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September 14, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Uses Black feminist theory and interviews with Black mother-advocates to examine how race, gender, class, and disability shape special-education advocacy, parental rights, school distrust, misdiagnosis, placement, and discipline. racism.org/articles/bas...
Reasonable doubt is not color-blind. Professor Vernellia Randall examines how Black and white experience can shape jurors’ views of maternal mental illness, criminal responsibility, psychiatric evidence, and the unequal treatment of Black and white mothers. racism.org/articles/law...
Reasonable Doubt Is Not Color-Blind: Black and White Experience in Maternal Mental Illness Cases
Vernellia R. Randall, Reasonable Doubt Is Not Color-Blind: Black and White Experience in Maternal Mental Illness Cases, Racism.org (September 13, 2026).
Reasonable doubt is formally color-blind. Re...
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September 13, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Reasonable doubt is not color-blind. Professor Vernellia Randall examines how Black and white experience can shape jurors’ views of maternal mental illness, criminal responsibility, psychiatric evidence, and the unequal treatment of Black and white mothers. racism.org/articles/law...
Analyzes how the Benet Mosopisyek use Indigenous self-representation and international human-rights claims to resist displacement from Uganda’s Mt. Elgon. racism.org/articles/wor...
Becoming a Subject of Rights: Strategies of Indigenous Self-Representation for International Rights Claims in the Area of Uganda’s Mt. Elgon National Park
Abstract
Excerpted From: John Thomas Rider, Becoming a Subject of Rights: Strategies of Indigenous Self-Representation for International Rights Claims in the Area of Uganda’s Mt. Elgon National Park...
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September 12, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Analyzes how the Benet Mosopisyek use Indigenous self-representation and international human-rights claims to resist displacement from Uganda’s Mt. Elgon. racism.org/articles/wor...
Recovers New York’s forgotten legal struggle over Black school segregation, showing how state courts nullified civil-rights protections and how People ex rel. King v. Gallagher helped give “separate but equal” legitimacy. racism.org/articles/cit...
People ex rel. King v. Gallagher and the Forgotten Legal Struggle over Racial Segregation in New York State Public Schools
Abstract
Excerpted From: David A. Weinstein, People ex rel. King v. Gallagher and the Forgotten Legal Struggle over Racial Segregation in New York State Public Schools, 20 Judicial Notice 32 (2026) ...
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September 9, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Recovers New York’s forgotten legal struggle over Black school segregation, showing how state courts nullified civil-rights protections and how People ex rel. King v. Gallagher helped give “separate but equal” legitimacy. racism.org/articles/cit...
Analyze Fair Housing Act complaint outcomes across 21 Northern and Midwestern states, revealing uneven enforcement for Black and Latino complainants and the continuing reach of Jim Crow beyond the South. racism.org/articles/bas...
The Relics of Jim Crow: Fair Housing Enforcement in the North and Midwest
Abstract
Excerpted From: Charles S. Bullock, III and Charles M. Lamb, The Relics of Jim Crow: Fair Housing Enforcement in the North and Midwest, 35 Southern California Review of Law & Social Justice...
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September 8, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Analyze Fair Housing Act complaint outcomes across 21 Northern and Midwestern states, revealing uneven enforcement for Black and Latino complainants and the continuing reach of Jim Crow beyond the South. racism.org/articles/bas...
Examines how Fourth Amendment doctrine makes Black bodies sites of surveillance, disposability, and death while imposing epistemological violence on Black law students and faculty who must learn and teach criminal procedure. racism.org/articles/bas...
Can You Be Black and Teach That?
Abstract
Excerpted From: Devon W. Carbado, Can You Be Black and Teach That?, 101 New York University Law Review 758 (June 2026) (Full Document)
The text of the Fourth Amendment reads:
The right of...
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September 7, 2026 at 9:10 AM
Examines how Fourth Amendment doctrine makes Black bodies sites of surveillance, disposability, and death while imposing epistemological violence on Black law students and faculty who must learn and teach criminal procedure. racism.org/articles/bas...
Black veterans are disproportionately burdened by punitive “bad paper” discharges that block benefits and opportunity. Holly L. Christian examines systemic racial bias in military justice and proposes race-conscious discharge review and class-action relief. racism.org/articles/law...
The Scarlet Letter Plaguing Black Veterans: Racial Disparity and the Pursuit of Restorative Justice for Veterans with ‘Bad Paper’ Military Discharges
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Excerpted From: Holly L. Christian, The Scarlet Letter Plaguing Black Veterans: Racial Disparity and the Pursuit of Restorative Justice for Veterans with “Bad Paper” Military Discharges, 73...
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September 6, 2026 at 10:54 AM
Black veterans are disproportionately burdened by punitive “bad paper” discharges that block benefits and opportunity. Holly L. Christian examines systemic racial bias in military justice and proposes race-conscious discharge review and class-action relief. racism.org/articles/law...
Explains how Title VII religious-accommodation doctrine interacts with contemporary workplace conflicts over racial DEI programs, vaccination, abortion, LGBTQ+ inclusion, and anti-harassment rules after Groff v. DeJoy. racism.org/articles/int...
Cat\Impact of Contemporary “Culture Wars” on Religious Discrimination Claims and Defenses
Abstract
Excerpted From: Carolyn L. Wheeler, Impact of Contemporary “Culture Wars” on Religious Discrimination Claims and Defenses, 39 ABA J. Lab. & Emp. L. 1 (2026) (Full Document)
Brad Amos, a v...
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September 2, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Explains how Title VII religious-accommodation doctrine interacts with contemporary workplace conflicts over racial DEI programs, vaccination, abortion, LGBTQ+ inclusion, and anti-harassment rules after Groff v. DeJoy. racism.org/articles/int...
Argues that individualized sentence-reduction laws can reduce disparities created by prosecutors and legislatures despite variation among judges.
Second Looks for Sentencing Equality
Abstract
Excerpted From: Joshua D. Weiss, Second Looks for Sentencing Equality, SMU Law Review 195 (Spring 2026) (253 Footnotes) (Full Document)
CONSIDER the case of Kepa Maumau. As a twenty-year-...
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September 1, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Argues that individualized sentence-reduction laws can reduce disparities created by prosecutors and legislatures despite variation among judges.
Examines attacks on DEI, voting rights, disaster equity and tribal sovereignty; record immigration arrests; government surveillance; Black land loss; and resistance by Black, Indigenous, immigrant, Arab and Muslim communities. racism.org/about/latest...
Weekly Racial Justice Update — August 23–29, 2026
Vernellia R. Randall, Weekly Racial Justice Update — August 23–29, 2026, Racism.org (August 30, 2026).
This week showed the federal government using civil-rights law in two sharply different ways. ...
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August 30, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Examines attacks on DEI, voting rights, disaster equity and tribal sovereignty; record immigration arrests; government surveillance; Black land loss; and resistance by Black, Indigenous, immigrant, Arab and Muslim communities. racism.org/about/latest...
