As Black History Month comes to a close, we’re honoring the tremendous impact of Black legal workers, lawyers, law students, and community organizers who created and advanced the work of the NLG and other movement spaces. Our movements, the NLG included, would not exist without the work of Black radical organizers and legal professionals.
As we celebrate the many contributions Black leaders have made to the movement, we also acknowledge the barriers Black legal professionals face, even in progressive spaces. Radically honoring Black history means creating more just, more compassionate environments for Black revolutionaries to thrive in. To that end, we’ve compiled a living resource document as a small gesture toward improving the day-to-day conditions of current and future Black legal workers, lawyers, law students, and organizers.
This is an ongoing document; if you have more resources or recommendations, please email communications@nlg.org and we’ll update the page accordingly
Resources for Black law students, legal workers, lawyers, and organizers:
- National Black Law Students Association pre-law mentorship for prospective Black lawyers
- Metropolitan Black Bar Association resources for Black law students
- National Lawyers Guild Haywood Burns Fellowship for law students and legal workers (opens in November 2022)
- National Lawyers Guild Leonard I. Weinglass Memorial Fellowship for law students, legal workers, and lawyers (opens in May 2022)
- Law 4 Black Lives legal organization membership
- Movement for Black Lives mutual aid resources by state
- Mutual Aid NYC mutual aid resource list (NYC only)
- For NLG members: Join The United People of Color Caucus
Resources for organizations strengthening racial justice work:
- (Divorcing) White Supremacy Culture readings
- NLG Anti-Racism Committee (ARC) and the United People of Color Caucus (TUPOCC) Engaging in Anti-Oppression Work guide
- National Conference of Black Lawyers webinar recordings
- BLM Resource for Healing Justice & Direct Action
- Law 4 Black Lives webinars and other resource documents
Solidarity for non-Black allies:
- Support The United People of Color Caucus of the NLG
- Engage in local reparations initiatives, redistributing money and resources to Black people
