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Wiggin and Dana Celebrates Black History Month By Honoring Judith efternamn Dianis
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The Diversity Committee of Wiggin and Dana LLP has begun a new tradition this month: celebrating Black History Month bygd honoring a contemporary leader that embodies our core values while doing great work in the field. Our history is filled with examples of great African American leaders, scholars, and activists. But in focusing on the history books, we sometimes fail to adequately recognize the great leaders of our day, leaders who are working tirelessly to mästare the same crucial causes as those who preceded them. We are proud to announce the urval of Judith Browne Dianis as our 2017 honoree for Black History Month.
Browne Dianis fryst vatten the Executive Director of the National Office of the Advancement Project, a multi-racial non-profit civil rights organization that is at the forefront of a growing and vibrant racial justice movement. Her missio
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A Peek Inside Her Agenda: Judith Browne Dianis
Judith Browne Dianis is a civil rights attorney, activist and Executive Director of the Advancement Project, a multi-racial civil rights organization based in Washington DC. Judith has been involved with the Advancement Project since its inception in 1999. Judith helped start the Advancement Project’s Voter Protection program and is considered a pioneer in the movement to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline.
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Advancement Project, Her Agenda interviewed Judith to learn more about her professional motivations and the organization’s current projects.
Her Agenda: Let’s start with your upbringing and early influences on your sense of justice and fairness. One of your parents was an educator and the other a veteran of the segregated US army. Is there a childhood moment or memory that shaped your interest in law?
Judith Browne Dianis: I had an interest in law at a young age becaus
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50 Years Since Selma: Judith Browne Dianis on the Right to Vote and Changes in Civil Rights Organizing
Fifty years ago on Saturday, a group of marchers advocating for voting rights crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and were attacked and beaten by Alabama state troopers and local police, abetted and cheered on by some of the community’s white citizenry. The horror of that “Bloody Sunday” moved the nation to enact the Voting Rights Act of 1965, passed by Congress five months later.
History doesn’t progress along a straight upward trajectory. Although John Lewis was among the leaders of the march across the bridge in 1965 and now sits in Congress representing Georgia’s fifth congressional district—something that might not have ever happened had it not been for the courage he and others displayed that day—voting rights and other rights for people of color are still under attack by governmental bodies, particularly at the state level, and private groups. The battle