As the American Bar organization’s first black female president,Paulette Brown hopes to change law’s disagreeable reputation for discrimination against black defendants
African-American citizens are being failed by the US criminal justice system because of ingrained racial bias in the way suspects are treated, according to the head of the United States’s largest legal professional body.
Paulette Brown, or who became the first black female president of the American Bar organization (ABA) in August,is determined to transform the negative image that many people hold of lawyers. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com