The Legal Eagle Review is an informative and thought-provoking weekly radio show and podcast where the show hosts, NCCU law professors Irv Joyner and April Dawson, talk with guest experts and discuss current legal and political issues affecting everyday people in Durham, the surrounding community, and the state. The show airs on WNCU 90.7 FM on Sundays from 7-8p. The Legal Eagle Review is sponsored by the North Carolina Central University School of Law, and the Virtual Justice Project.
Episodes
Sunday Aug 25, 2019
The Crown Act & Natural Hair Discrimination
Sunday Aug 25, 2019
Sunday Aug 25, 2019
The CROWN Act stands for Creating a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair Act. And the recently enacted California CROWN Act makes it not only unlawful for employers and schools to ban natural and protective hairstyles African descendants commonly wear, but it also recognizes that these grooming policies constitute racial discrimination. On this show, we talk about the harms associated with race-based hair discrimination and efforts to enact the CROWN Act throughout the country with Professor Wendy Greene, Professor of Law at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law in Philadelphia and one of the nation’s leading scholars (if not the leading scholar) on grooming code discrimination.
Sunday Aug 18, 2019
Reconstruction, Redemption and the Ongoing Struggle For Freedom
Sunday Aug 18, 2019
Sunday Aug 18, 2019
The Reconstruction era is typically defined as that period starting at 1865 with the ratification of the 13th Amendment and ending in 1877 with the disputed presidential election of Rutherford B. Hayes and the Compromise of 1877. But so often in school, that time period in our nation’s history is glossed over. What do we really know about Reconstruction? And how can studying that period help us better understand where we are today as a county? On this show, we talk with Attorney James Williams, retired Orange County Chief Public Defender and the organizer of an upcoming symposium on the Reconstruction period, and Dr. William Sturkey, Professor of History at UNC Chapel Hill, and author of a recently published book titled “Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White.”
Sunday Aug 04, 2019
Impact of NCCU Law Alumni - Judge Ashleigh Parker Dunston
Sunday Aug 04, 2019
Sunday Aug 04, 2019
The mission of North Carolina Central University School of Law is to provide high quality, personalized, practice-oriented, and affordable legal education to historically underrepresented students from diverse backgrounds to increase diversity in the legal profession. NCCU Law graduates are encouraged and empowered to become highly competent and socially responsible lawyers and leaders committed to public service and to meeting the needs of underserved communities. This mission helps NCCU Law and its graduates create a more just society. Many NCCU Law alums are living the mission and using the legal training they received at NCCU Law to serve the community. On this show, we talked with one such alum -- Judge Ashleigh Parker Dunston. In 2017, only five years after graduating from law school, Judge Dunston was appointed by the governor to the District Court bench in Wake County, NC. Judge Dunston, who was 30 at the time of her appointment, was only the third and the youngest African American female District Court Judge in Wake County history.