On April 10, 2025, Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Inc., known locally as BWL, celebrated 50 years with a reception in Culver City, California. BWL is a nonprofit corporation formed ...

As “Reasonable Doubt’s” Jax Stewart becomes the newest Black woman lawyer to grace our television screens, TheWrap wanted to take a trip down memory lane by listing the most iconic Black ...

including being the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the first Black woman to earn a PhD in the United States. A statue in Philadelphia will soon ...

Black Alabamians had come from all over to see the Columbia University-trained woman lawyer who famously “took no prisoners,” recalls Clarence Jones, a close adviser to King. Courthouse ...