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Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast   Georgia State College of Law professor and host of Supreme Myths Eric Segall joins Bad Faith to talk about the impact of two recent SCOTUS rulings: Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, which ended Chevron deference and hobbled the authority of administrative agencies, and the Trump immunity case. What emerges, however, is a debate about what the left should do to address the ultra-conservative court and whether Biden is ultimately to blame for his unwillingness to take court reform seriously while Democrats controlled the House and Senate. Yet another spicy-yet-constructive debate for the books.   Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube to access our full video library. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).   Produced by Armand Aviram.   Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands)    

Racialized disparities continue to persist in the United States and are unlikely to be effectively alleviated by the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection. A recent book provides a functional analysis linking disparate forms of oppression and makes the case that structural racism will be more effectively dismantled by contesting ongoing settler colonization and supporting the right of all peoples to self-determination. Host Sahar Aziz addresses these issues with “Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law: Why Structural Racism Persists, “ author and Georgia State College of Law Professor Natsu Taylor Saito.Support the Center for Security, Race  and Rights by following us and making a donation: Donate: https://give.rutgersfoundation.org/csrr-support/20046.html Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rucsrr Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/rutgerscsrr Follow us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/rucsrr Follow us on TikTok: https://tiktok.com/rucsrr Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://csrr.rutgers.edu/newsroom/sign-up-for-newsletter/

The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia named Dr. David Schecter the President of East Georgia State College on January 3, 2022. Since that time he has helped lead the College through its “50th Anniversary” year in 2023 and his main focus is on growing enrollment and ensuring students have a terrific experience on campus. Dr. Schecter leads an outstanding Cabinet that includes the Provost/Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs, Vice President for Business Affairs, Vice President for Information Technology, Chief of Staff/Legal Counsel, Vice President for Institutional Advancement, Associate Vice President for Grants and Data Analytics, Director of East Georgia State College-Augusta, Director of East Georgia State College-Statesboro, Director of Strategic Planning and Institutional Research, Director of Public Safety/Chief of Police, Director of Human Resources, and the Director of Athletics. This team led the successful implementation of the new FY2024 - FY2028 Campus Strategic Plan and is in the process of launching a new Bachelor's of Business Administration degree.      Dr. Schecter currently serves on the Boards of the Golden Harvest Food Bank, United Way of Southeast Georgia, Bulloch-Chatham Regional Education Collaborative, Central Savannah River Area/Regional Educational Service Agency, and the Magnolia Midlands Georgia Youth Science & Technology Center. He is most proud to be partnering with Golden Harvest Food Bank to open the Bobcat Food Pantry and work on other projects that support students' basic needs. Schecter previously served as Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of South Carolina - Upstate in Spartanburg, S.C., where he managed a budget of $38 million, administered a department of 686 employees and supervised deans of the schools and colleges and the library. Prior to serving at USC Upstate, Schecter served as Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs and then Vice Provost at California State University, Bakersfield. He provided oversight for the university's Office of Research and Grants as well as the Kegley Institute of Ethics. Before joining the administration at CSU Bakersfield, Schecter was Chair of the Department of Political Science at California State University, Fresno where he was granted tenure as a full professor and earned the Provost's Award for Faculty Service. He also previously taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A Florida native, Schecter holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Florida and both a master's degree in political science and a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies and history from Florida State University. He also holds an MBA from Fresno State. In his spare time, he can usually be found walking on the beach in his hometown of Ormond Beach, Florida, going to a concert to hear one of his favorite 80s bands, playing "No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em," or cringing as he watches his beloved Miami Dolphins in a close game.      

Former federal prosecutor Michael Zeldin, discusses the testimony of Special Counsel Robert Hur on his decision not to charge President Joe Biden over his retention of classified documents. Water rights expert Ryan Rowberry, a professor at the Georgia State College of Law, discusses an unprecedented water rights claim by the US government at Georgia's Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. June Grasso hosts.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former federal prosecutor Michael Zeldin, discusses the testimony of Special Counsel Robert Hur on his decision not to charge President Joe Biden over his retention of classified documents. Water rights expert Ryan Rowberry, a professor at the Georgia State College of Law, discusses an unprecedented water rights claim by the US government at Georgia's Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. June Grasso hosts.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week's episode is sponsored by Fine Lines, a west coast wholesale rep agency with showrooms in Las Vegas and Seattle representing over 50 fabulous gifts, fashion + home lines.Mehrnush Saadat started out in retail at the age of 15 on the floor at Upton's - if anyone remembers that store! From there, she went on to work in other retail organizations, primarily in cosmetics: Lancôme, Tony and Tina, Paula Dorf, and Origins (to name a few).In college, Mehrnush obtained her BA in International Relations and shortly thereafter, became a licensed realtor. Although she continued to work as a realtor until 2016, Mehrnush decided to go to law school at Georgia State College of Law in 2011. Her area of passion was international business. She had one internship in London and another in Dubai, but her heart wouldn't let her leave Atlanta.Because Atlanta isn't exactly known for international business law, Mehrnush went back to what she knew best after school: real estate. She started her legal career in real estate law as a closing attorney. As time went on, Mehrnush decided that she wanted to create something different than what she had seen in the industry over the last 11+ years as a realtor.In 2016, she started Blue Ink Title on a whim with a lot of faith and determination. After six successful years as a legal entrepreneur, in April 2022, she merged her law practice with Ganek PC, a larger real estate closing firm that has been in business for over 45 years.Although she wasn't quite sure what it would be exactly, Mehrnush knew she was ready to pursue another venture. She knew the best parts of creating Blue Ink Title were in the creation process. The startup part, although stressful, was what she loved most. And then, this past New Year's Eve, her latest venture Soberish was born. Soberish is a non-alcoholic bottle shop and cannabis boutique that is #redefininghappyhour.Here, Mehrnush shares her amazing story of how her career journey led her to the entrepreneurial world. Michelle and Mehrnush discuss what inspired her to start Soberish and what piqued her interest about the sober curious movement. They also chat about how the cultures of cannabis and alcohol are changing, what inspired Mehrnush when creating the Soberish aesthetic, and how Mehrnush works with her vendors and team members. What's Inside:What inspired Mehrnush to create Soberish.The inspiration behind the Soberish aesthetic.How Mehrnush works with vendors and team members.Mentioned In This Episode:Soberish WebsiteConnie n Jack on InstagramSoberish on Instagramhttps://florahempspirits.com/https://www.betterrhodes.com/products/zeero-sangiovesehttps://drinkdesoi.com/https://drinkallay.com/https://notpot.com/https://www.drinkcantrip.com/ https://kaempathogenics.com/

In the wake of Donald Trump's role in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, lawsuits in states around the country are seeking to disqualify him from the 2024 election. Challengers to his eligibility invoke Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which provides in relevant part that "No person shall . . . hold any office . . . under the United States . . . who, having previously taken an oath . . . as an officer of the United States . . . to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."As of now, there are nearly two dozen states in which litigation is ongoing to bar Trump from the ballot, and that number is only expected to grow. Earlier this week, a Colorado district began a week-long bench trial and, this Thursday, the Minnesota Supreme Court will hear oral argument. And if a state does disqualify Trump, the United States Supreme Court will no doubt immediately hear the case.On Monday October 30, the University of Minnesota Law School held a conference with leading law and political science scholars on "Section 3, Insurrection, and the 2024 Election: Does the Fourteenth Amendment Bar Donald Trump from the Presidency?" Today's Lawfare Podcast is a recording of one of the conference panels, which focused on the political implications of the Section 3 cases.The moderator was Larry Jacobs of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, and the panelists were Julia Azari, a Professor of Political Science at Marquette University; Ilya Somin, a Professor of Law at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School; and Eric Segall, a Professor of Law at the Georgia State College of Law.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host Brian Stelter breaks down the Georgia racketeering charges against Donald Trump with Anthony Michael Kreis, a professor at Georgia State College of Law, and Anna Bower, a Georgia native covering legal affairs in Fulton County for Lawfare. They discuss how the case brought by District Attorney Fani Willis differs from Trump's three previous indictments, the likelihood of any of the ex-president's 18 co-defendents flipping, the potential for cameras in the courtroom, and if this trial can even get underway before the 2024 election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump's interference in the 2020 Election and the January 6 insurrection were big reasons we started this podcast. In this episode, we get some updates on those investigations and ask some questions about some of the progress and the legal and political problems ahead.  Helping us understand the covert jury reports, we talk to Anthony Michael Kreis, professor at Georgia State College of Law. Helping us understand the January 6 investigation and the importance of “overt acts,” we talk to Alan Rozenshtein, law professor at the University of Minnesota (co-host of Lawfare's Rational Security podcast and co-author with Jed on a new article, “January 6, Ambiguously Inciting Speech, and the Overt-Acts Solution.”)Link to “January 6, Ambiguously Inciting Speech, and the Overt-Acts Solution" here. 

Family Law expert fills us in on what to know going into, during and the aftermath legal considerations of a divorce.  The guest shares important legal information to have in place while still in the honeymoon phase that could bode to be valuable should things unfortunately take a turn for the worst.Nuggets of information are shared on things like 'sweat equity,' asset splitting, child custody, UCCJEA and many more! Introducing Our Guest:Cherese C. Clark-Wilson, a Founding Partner of Clark, Lowery & Lumpkin, (http://cllfamilylaw.com/ )has blazed trails in family law as a 2016 and 2017 Super Lawyer “Rising Star” of Georgia. She is a “National Top 100 Black Lawyer” for Matrimonial and Family Law for the State of Georgia and National “Top 40 Under 40” award recipient for her exemplary leadership and dedication to family law where she is also an Executive Board Member.  Cherese has also been named a “2017 Top 10 Family Law Attorney” by American Jurist Institute.Cherese earned her Juris Doctorate from Georgia State University College of Law and was a cum laude graduate of Spelman College with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science.A litigator at heart and with over 1,000 cases under her belt, Cherese has been dedicated to defining justice in the family law context for her clients and their children. Her unique approach to family law guides her in case preparation and developing trial strategies. She is respected amongst her colleagues and judges- a very important asset for clients seeking representation. She handles domestic relations cases throughout the Atlanta Metro area ranging from divorce, child custody, child support establishment and enforcement, paternity and legitimation, alimony, same-sex litigation, modifications, temporary protective orders, grandparents' rights, and Hague Convention cases.  Cherese also served as a Guardian ad Litem in custody cases representing the best interests of children.Upon completing law school, Cherese became a Public Defender appointed to represent indigent adult and juvenile clients in Clayton County Magistrate and Superior Courts. She worked tirelessly to protect her clients' constitutional rights which resulted in bench and jury trials, case dismissals and acquittals, and successful completion of Drug Court and Pre-trial Diversion Programs. Her excellence and success in criminal law earned her the Georgia State College of Law Michelle Ferguson-Priestly Award and pupil membership into Bleckley Inn of Court.Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Acthttps://www.lawinfo.com/resources/child-custody-lawyers/uniform-child-custody-jurisdiction-and-enforcement-act.htmlFor more information on TRUTH: NO CHASER, including booking information, updates, photos, videos and apparel please visit:https://www.thetruthnochaser.com/

Today Dr. Daniel Hall shares the importance of sales education and how to support leadership in developing professional selling skills. Listen in as Deborah and Dr. Hall discuss why universities should have sales education, the importance of relationships building, and which strategies you can use within your organization to create an environment that supports the business leaders of tomorrow.   Dr. Daniel Hall, associate professor of economics, also serves as dean of the Earl N. Phillips School of Business (PSB) at High Point University. Dr. Hall joined HPU in 2010 and brought with him a tech-savvy skill set that has added innovative techniques and teaching methodologies to the classroom. He now seeks to develop data and analytics skills in our students at the undergraduate and MBA levels. Prior to the dean role, Dr. Hall taught macroeconomics, microeconomics, environmental economics, economics for engineers and some data analytics courses. He was honored as Service Learning Professor of the Year in the 2014 academic year and received the Spirit of High Point University Award in 2021. Dr. Hall has conducted research on trust, cooperation and voluntary contributions. He has published in Research in Experimental Economics, Games, Libertarian Papers, and the Journal of Economics and Finance Education. Dr. Hall earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in economics at Georgia State University and his B.S. in economics at Georgia State College and State University.   Create a personal career strategy that develops the leadership and communication skills you need to assess challenges, showcase your skills, and demonstrate your ability to be a C-Suite Leader. Learn more about the C-Suite Academy here: https://bit.ly/csawaitlist22 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jacob Crawford, Head Coach at South Georgia State College, joins the show to talk to Ed & Eric about coaching education, as he continues to work on his USSF A License, along with talking to them about other educational moments throughout his coaching career. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week's guests break down all you need to know about last week's Supreme Court oral arguments on the Mississippi abortion case that's posed to overturn Roe v. Wade & Planned Parenthood vs. Casey. Professor Eric Segall of Georgia State College of Law returns to the podcast to weigh in on remarks made during oral arguments that challenged the constitutionality of the right to choose. He's joined by Professor Mary Ziegler from Florida State University College of Law -- a historian who specializes in the legal history of reproduction, the family, sexuality, & the Constitution. The pair debate Supreme Court reform, the value of judicial review, the "backlash" argument that Roe was too much too soon, whether pinning abortion rights to viability was a mistake, and much much more. It's a level of legal analysis you'll find few other places. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube to access our full video library. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod)and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced by Ben Dalton (@wbend). Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

In this episode of REVOLT Black News Weekly, Eboni K Williams and a team of legal experts look back on the trial of Ahmaud Arbery's convicted murders and ask the question - what if there had been no video evidence?... Professor Clark D. Cunningham, Georgia State College of Law joins.RBN Special Correspondent Neima Abdulahi moderates an African roundtable where guests respond to the Omicron Covid-19 variant and how the travel restrictions impact their life on the ground. Khumo Masege, South African Clinical Psychotherapist joins.A very special tribute to the life and legacy of creative visionary, Virgil Abloh. Designers Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne join.  RBN Special Correspondent Kennedy Rue McCullough takes us through this week's REVOLT Radar which includes Kevin Hart and Wesley Snipes' new series “True Story”, and Kirk Franklin stops by to chat about bringing Gospel to the big screen in his new Christmas film. And in another edition of REVOLT's ‘Stand Up For' Series presented by State Farm, Managing Director of the Little Haiti Cultural Complex, Sandy Dorsainvil, spotlights how their youth arts center bridges culture, community and youth!

Garrett was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1981 and moved to Savannah, Georgia in 1986 when his father transferred jobs. After graduating from the University of Georgia in 2004, he became a financial advisor. He was enamored with the practice of law from an early age, and chose to pursue a career as an attorney in 2012, when he moved to Atlanta to attend law school at the Georgia State College of Law. After graduating, he worked with the Georgia Senate Research Office, where he advised the Georgia Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee. After the legislative session ended, he took a position with the Georgia Secretary of State Securities Division, which prosecuted investment fraud cases throughout the state of Georgia. While in Atlanta, he met an intelligent and beautiful young lady whom he married. He is the proud father to three wonderful children and calls Evans, Georgia home. Garrett currently runs Garrett Murphy Law, a law practice in Evans, and serves as a part time instructor in the College of Business at Augusta University.

Heartland History is back! We are thrilled to host a conversation with guest Dr. Dana Caldemeyer, Associate Professor of History at South Georgia State College. Dr. Caldemeyer talks with our new host Dr. Camden Burd about her new book "Union Renegades: Miners, Capitalism, and Organizing in the Gilded Age" (2021)published by the University of Illinois Press. Their conversation covers the tangled relationship of miners in the Midwest to labor organizations and to the corporate entities that employed them. If you are interested in Dr. Caldemeyer's book, follow this link or order a copy from your local independent bookseller: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/39dem6cr9780252043505.html

This podcast is South Georgia State College's contribution to the commemoration of Constitution Day in 2021. In deference to the pandemic there will be no face to face presentation, but this (socially) “distanced learning” opportunity will take its place.       Here, Dr. Rick Reiman looks at the career and contributions to our Constitutional...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's extended moratorium on evictions will expire at the end of the month. Elora Raymond, an assistant professor of City & Regional Planning at Georgia Tech, discusses what this will mean for people in Georgia.LaVonda Reed was recently appointed as the seventh dean of the Georgia State College of Law. She joins “Closer Look” to reflect on her career journey and share her vision for the law school.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

An Interview of Robert Tester, the Senior Director of the LIFE FORCE Air Medical Service at Erlanger Health System. Robbie has been with LIFE FORCE since 1998 when he started as a Flight Paramedic. He has held several positions at the program including Program Manager, Administrator, Vice President, and now Senior Director at Erlanger. His current position includes not only LIFE FORCE but system-wide Emergency Management and the Regional Operations Center.Along with being a paramedic, Robbie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Care Administration from Georgia State College and will be completing his Masters in Business Administration from Western Governors University in Tennessee this year. He is involved with a number of associations and committees and currently is a board member of the Association of Critical Care Transport.

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Eric Segall is a professor at Georgia State College of Law. He hosts the Supreme Myths podcast. He has authored Originalism as Faith (2018) and Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court is Not a Court and Its Justices are Not Judges (2012). Prof. Eric Segall on Twitter Segment 1: Election 2020 and the new Supreme Court “This is all a function of one opinion in Bush vs Gore” Segment 2: Justice Barrett and abortion “Her mission is to overturn Roe vs Wade” Segment 3: SCOTUS & ObamaCare “They’re not gonna overturn ObamaCare this term” Segment 4: “the Trump administration is just, effectively, the Evangelical administration” Full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and other benefits are available to supporters of At The Table on Patreon. Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter]

Greg Frady (born December 2, 1962)[1] is an American college baseball coach. He was most recently the head coach of the Georgia State Panthers baseball team since the start of the 2007 season until the end of the 2019 season. He also served as general manager of the German National team. Frady was the head coach at North Florida Community College from 1990–1996. Before serving as... The post Greg Frady Former Georgia State College Baseball Winningest Coach, Former WBC German National Team Manager. appeared first on Baseball Outside The Box.

Cory Baldwin is the Head Men's Basketball Coach at South Georgia State College where he has compiled a 232 -113 record in his 11 seasons. Baldwin previously served as the head coach of the Cartersville Warriors in the World Basketball Association. Baldwin led the Warriors to a 10-4 record. The three previous college basketball seasons, Baldwin served as the head coach at Truett-McConnell College (now Truett-McConnell University). He compiled the third best record in the GJCAA during that time, which included a trip to the GJCAA semifinals each year. Prior to his work at Truett-McConnell, Baldwin served as Assistant Basketball Coach at Clayton State University for seven years. Before being an assistant coach at Clayton State University, Baldwin was a student at CSU. While attending Clayton State he played on the basketball team, were he was team captain his senior season for the first ever Clayton State Team to be National Ranked in NCAA competition. Website - http://www.sgsc.edu/athletics/bball.cms (http://www.sgsc.edu/athletics/bball.cms) Email - Cory.Baldwin@sgsc.edu Twitter - https://twitter.com/coachbaldwin (@CoachBaldwinWC)

Professor Eric Segall of Georgia State College of Law The legal eagle like you have never heard him. Follow him on where he is ranting about this  twitter @espinsegall Eric Segall teaches federal courts and constitutional law I and II. He is the author of the books Originalism as Faith and Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court is not a Court and its Justices are not Judges. His articles on constitutional law have appeared in, among others, the Harvard Law Review Forum, the Stanford Law Review On Line, the UCLA Law Review, the George Washington Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, the Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, and Constitutional Commentary among many others. Segall’s op-eds and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the LA Times, The Atlantic, SLATE, Vox, Salon, and the Daily Beast, among others. He has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and France 24.    The Friday episode (SUPD 44) with Kelly Carlin will be up by noon on Feb 7

In this podcast we welcome Brea Croteau, a young and very accomplished attorney. We invited Brea on our podcast to share what it takes to become a successful attorney. If you are interested in law school or working as an attorney, this podcast episode is for you! Brea shares her journey from when she first became interested in law, to what she did in high school and college to prepare for law school and what her three years of law school were like. We also discuss the LSAT, the Bar Exam, Law Review and Moot Court! Brea shares what her “typical” day is like on the job and the advantages and drawbacks of becoming a lawyer. Learn what Brea thinks is the most important thing every student who is considering the path should know.Brea was a standout student at Georgia State College of Law in Atlanta, Georgia, where she participated in Moot Court and Law Review, and then went on to land a great job at a large firm in Atlanta, Georgia. We hope you enjoy this podcast as much as we did! Join Our Podcast Email List! Follow Our Podcast:Website: Listen To Our Podcast HereYouTube Channel Twitter LinkedIn Facebook InstagramAll Things College and CareerMeg's LinkedIn Bobbie's LinkedIn Music Production by Lena Keller: lena.m.keller@gmail.comTechnical Production: Richard BarnettSHOW NOTES:Georgia State University | College of LawUniversity of Georgia | UGAKilpatrick Townsend & StocktonUGA MiracleLSAT Test Preparation | PowerScore

Episode 71 of Guestbook Podcast. In town as a visiting lecturer at Georgetown Law School for his Fall semester seminar "Race and Poverty in Capital and Other Criminal Cases", Stephen Bright returns as a guest at Union Inn to discuss with Innkeeper Freddie several of the structural injustices that currently plague the US criminal court system. "Rigged: Rigged: When Race and Poverty Determine Outcomes in the Criminal Courts" (Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 2016): https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/79750/OSJCL_V14N1_263.pdf Bio: Stephen B. Bright is Professor of Practice at Georgia State College of Law, as well as the Harvey Karp Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and a visiting professor of law at Georgetown. He spent 35 years at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, first as director for 22 years and then as president and senior counsel through 2016. He has tried capital cases to juries in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi and argued and won four capital cases before the Supreme Court. Subjects of his litigation, teaching and writings include capital punishment, legal representation of poor people accused of crimes, racial discrimination, conditions and practices in prisons and jails, and judicial independence. He received the American Bar Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award in 1998. The Fulton Daily Law Report, a legal newspaper in Georgia, named him “Newsmaker of the Year” in 2003 for his contribution to bringing about creation of a public defender system in Georgia. Before joining the Southern Center, he was a legal services attorney in Appalachia, and a public defender and director of a law school clinical program in Washington, DC. The Internets: W: https://law.yale.edu/stephen-b-bright Recorded at Union Inn in the heart of Washington, DC, Guestbook Podcast is hosted by world-famous conversationalist and host-extraordinaire Innkeeper Freddie. Join him weekly as he interviews the myriad of guests who visit his home/inn. IG: @guestbookpod | @innkeeperfreddie | @unioninndc W: http://unioninndc.com E: innkeeper@unioninndc.com

This fall, Georgia State College of Law University is offering "The Legal Life of Ludacris" — a course examining the strategic legal decisions and contracts that supported his career as a rapper, actor, philanthropist and restaurateur. It's the brainchild of GSU entertainment law professor, Moraima "Mo" Ivory , who's the head of the school's "Entertainment, Sports and Media Law Initiative." Ivory spoke with On Second Thought host Virginia Prescott about the now full class.

Stephen Bright served as the director of the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, and is currently a lecturer at Yale Law School, as well as professor of practice at Georgia State College of Law. We discuss the death penalty in the United States and its relationship to poverty, race, and disadvantage. Poverty and Competent Representation The Supreme Court only decided in 1932 that a person in a death penalty case had a right to a lawyer. However, the government has competing interests when it must provide legal representation to a person whom it is trying to execute or imprison. Many court-appointed lawyers are not competent to represent someone accused in a capital case, ranging from falling asleep during trials, showing up drunk, or being plain inexperienced for capital cases. In a system like this, the people on death row are largely the most vulnerable in our society: extremely poor, victims of racism, suffering from mental illness, or with limited intellectual capabilities.  Race and the Death Penalty Justice Douglas pointed out that the defendant’s race was a key determinant in who received the death penalty. The criminal justice system is a part of our society least affected by the civil rights movement; the judge, the prosecutors, the court-appointed lawyers, and the juries are often all white in capital cases. In addition to race, location plays a huge role. Eighty percent of all the death sentences come from the South. Some prosecutors are more zealous than others in seeking the death penalty. A crime that is committed in one county might result in capital punishment, but not if it happened in a neighboring one.  A Fair and Impartial Court System Competent legal representation is the foundation for justice in the courts because it provides protection against an innocent person being convicted. A competent lawyer investigates a case thoroughly, makes sure there really is a charge against the client, and presents all of the relevant evidence. Further, although there is little diversity among judges, prosecutors, and lawyers, a least the juries should represent the diversity of the community. Find out more: Stephen Bright is a lawyer, lecturer at Yale Law School, and professor of practice at Georgia State College of Law. He is a passionate advocate of a public defender system, and has also served as director, president, and senior counsel of the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta.

Sarah Sander is A freshman at Georgia State College majoring in art minoring in art therapy. Sarah is a highly gifted visual artist and musician. In this episode we talk about the importance of art as therapy both visually and in music and how it affects our every day life. We discuss critiquing art as well as the process of creating it. We have a few laughs as she shares a personal story then leaves us with an important quote from a former teacher of hers. Enjoy! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dionne-white/support

This week on StoryWeb: Helen Matthews Lewis’s book Living Social Justice in Appalachia. In honor of International Women’s Day, coming up this Wednesday, I want to pay tribute to one of the great teachers of my life, Helen Matthews Lewis. Known fondly as the mother or grandmother of Appalachian studies by the many people whose personal and professional lives she has touched, Helen – as always – modestly denies this title, saying instead that other leaders gave birth to and shaped the interdisciplinary movement. But as her colleague Stephen L. Fisher points out, “there is little question that her program at Clinch Valley College [in Virginia] served as the major catalyst for the current Appalachian studies movement and that no one has done more over the years to shape its direction than Helen.” For me, as for so many others, Helen set the standard for engaged scholarship, activist teaching, and pure regional enjoyment – whether that region is Appalachia or Wales or southern Africa. Helen weaves it all together: she revels in learning, delights in talking with and listening to everyone she meets, energetically taps her foot at bluegrass and sings gospel songs with unbridled glee. It’s perfect, then, that her 2012 book, Living Social Justice in Appalachia, is a quilt of her writings (essays, articles, and poems), her reflections given through numerous interviews, pieces others wrote about her influence on them, photographs of Helen at key times in her life, and even her famous recipes (including instructions for making chowchow, one of my grandmother’s favorite foods). Longtime friends and colleagues Patricia D. Beaver and Judith Jennings edited the volume, working with Helen to bring to life the many facets of her career and her personal journey. How do you separate the lived self from the professional self? In Helen’s mind, you don’t – and Living Social Justice in Appalachia in its form and in its very title makes clear that the personal, professional, and political are tightly fused. I’ve spoken before on StoryWeb of the special and powerful way I met Helen – in a series of visits to the Highlander Research and Education Center, founded by Myles Horton and located in New Market, Tennessee. In Appalachian studies circles, it is not at all uncommon to hear of the way Helen has touched someone’s life. In my case, she actively encouraged me to embrace participatory, liberatory teaching and offered a much-needed critical and supportive eye to my memoir, Power in the Blood, when it was just starting to form in my mind. I thought I was writing a novel. Helen gently disagreed, telling me she thought I was writing “cultural and family history told in a narrative form.” We had that conversation one afternoon at her home in Highlander. Her comment crystallized the entire project for me and remains one of the most important discussions of my life. The time I spent with Helen at Highlander was always special, whether we were tending to her garden, watching videotapes of Bill Moyers interviewing Myles Horton on the back porch of what was now Helen’s home, or chatting with friend after friend and colleague after colleague who stopped by to say hello. Helen can whip up a mean cocktail, and she was always at the ready to welcome her frequent visitors. One of my favorite stories about Helen involves a leadership award she won in the 1990s. The organization giving her the award commissioned an artist to create a small sculpture in Helen’s honor. Rather than giving her a standard trophy, the organization wanted to capture the spirit of Helen’s example. The sculpture depicted a figure leading a line of figures behind her. Looking back over her shoulder at those following her, the figure’s face is a mirror: she understands that real leadership is about reflecting back to each “follower” her own image, her own potential. This small sculpture – which Helen displayed proudly in her home at Highlander – perfectly summed up Helen’s way of leading. Helen has lived a lot of life in her ninety-plus years. She was born in rural Georgia and raised in Cumming (notorious for its extremely racist views and brutal treatment of African Americans), attended the Georgia State College for Women (along with her classmate and fellow yearbook editor, Mary Flannery O’Connor, who drew the illustrations to accompany Helen’s text), and became radicalized through the church and through state political activities. Attending graduate school at Duke University, she met her future husband, Judd Lewis, and then moved with him to Virginia. After a teaching stint at East Tennessee State University and a PhD in sociology from the University of Kentucky, Helen was divorced from Judd. From there, she traveled the world, exploring the connection between working people and participatory education in Appalachia, Wales, Nicaragua, Cuba, Holland, Belgium, France, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and South Africa. She’s been let go from more than one teaching position, no doubt due to the empowering, engaged pedagogy she practiced. She’s directed Highlander and the Appalachian Center at Berea College. She’s worked at AppalShop in Whitesburg, Kentucky, and co-led community-based, participatory research in Ivanhoe, Virginia. She’s received a commendation from the Kentucky state legislature and been the recipient of honorary degrees. She’s had awards, study experiences, and lecture series named in her honor. And along the way, more than anything else, she has lifted up those she has met, provided that empowering mirror so that everyone in her field of vision sees all the potential they have inside. If you know Helen or her work, reading Living Social Justice in Appalachia will be a real treat. It brings our colleague and friend to life in such vivid ways. If you don’t know Helen or her work, reading Living Social Justice in Appalachia will give you the chance to “meet” one of the great thinkers, teachers, and leaders of our time. The book is a fantastic read from beginning to end, whether you’re jotting down her notes for growing a great garden or mixing up an old fashioned from her recipe (which specifies that you should make just one glass at a time!), whether you’re learning about how she developed anti-racist consciousness or reading first-hand accounts of those whose lives she’s touched. In the end, Helen understands that it all comes back to story. She believes strongly in telling the story of Appalachia, her region, and she believes in hearing and celebrating the stories of other folks in other regions. With StoryWeb, I celebrate stories of all kinds – and I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Helen Matthews Lewis for helping me see the value of stories. “Why am I here?” she asks near the end of the book. What is my story? Which story do I tell? Everybody and every community, place, and region needs stories, narratives, tales, and theories to serve as moral and intellectual frameworks. Without a “story,” we don’t know what things mean…. We are swamped by the volume of our own experience, adrift in a sea of facts. A story gives us a direction, a kind of theory of how the world works and how it needs to work if we are to survive. . . . We need to take back our stories. Visit thestoryweb.com/lewis to view “Keep Your Eye Upon the Scale,” a short documentary film about Helen’s exploration of the connections between coal miners in Appalachia and those in Wales. A recent interview with Helen is woven throughout the film, and you’ll also see her collaborators on the project, John Gaventa (an American political sociologist) and Richard Greatex (a British filmmaker). Those who follow old-time and bluegrass music will be especially interested to see the appearance of the Strange Creek Singers: Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard, Mike Seeger, and Tracy Schwarz. They came from Appalachia to Wales to share American coal mining music with the Welsh miners. Helen Matthews Lewis’s Living Social Justice in Appalachia is one good story. I highly recommend it.  

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