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(NCBL): an association of lawyers, scholars, judges, legal workers, law students and legal activists. Our mission is to serve as the legal arm of the movement for Black Liberation, to protect human rights, to achieve self-determination of Africa and African Communities in the Diaspora and to work in coalition to assist in ending oppression of all peoples. NCBL is a bar association but its program concerns matters of critical concern to the broader Black community.
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NCBL 42nd ANNUAL CONFERENCE
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI
OCTOBER 8-10, 2010
NCBL 42nd ANNUAL CONFERENCE
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI
OCTOBER 8-10, 2010
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For more than 41 years, the National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL), individually and collectively, have used their skills and resources to attack social and political injustice experienced in our communities worldwide. Going forward, NCBL’s goals are to increase its involvement of African- American lawyers in the fight for human rights and equal justice and to ensure that progressive advocates are visible and their voices are heard.
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SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE
The National Conference of Black Lawyers’ (NCBL) Michigan Chapter is responding to recently published findings by the American Civil Liberties Union that demonstrate consistent racially disproportionate suspensions and expulsions of black public school students across the state. There is also a demonstrated correlation between exclusion from school and dropout rates. Additionally there is a correlation between dropout rates and imprisonment.Read More About the Project (PDF)
MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
The National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) will perpetuate and strengthen its history of fearless and vigorous advocacy by encouraging new lawyers, law students and community activists to join us in the fight against all forms of injustices and to do so within an environment of sharing experiences, wisdom, and strategies to ensure the outcome of the relationships will benefit all parties.Read More About the Project (PDF)
HUMAN RIGHTS WORK
During the last two decades, NCBL/CHI has been in the forefront in the effort to get justice in the Burge Torture Cases. Chicago police commander Jon Burge, and other officers under his command, tortured of over 100 African-American men into confessing to crimes that they did not commit. Several of these men still languish in Illinois prisons. In an effort to focus international attention on police torture in Chicago, in 2005, Stan Willis led a group of lawyers and community activists to present evidence of police torture before the Organization of American States’ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2006, NCBL/CHI organized the community based “Black People Against Police Torture “BPAPT” in an effort to involve the Black Community in this human rights struggle. In February 2008, Stan presented evidence of police torture before the United Nations Committee to Eliminate Racial Discrimination “CERD” in Geneva, Switzerland. Upon returning from Geneva, BPAPT held town-hall meetings toRead More About the Project (PDF)
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
The terror that is perpetrated against predominantly blacks and Latinos in the streets of New York by the police “force” should be checked at the steps of the courthouse, but it is not. We call it Judicial Obstruction of Justice because one should expect to find justice in the courtroom, but it is obstructed and further frustrated by judicial attitudes and actions.Read More About the Project (PDF)