The Legal Eagle Review

Rental and Housing Crisis Being Exacerbated by COVID-19 Pandemic

On this show, we discuss the rental and housing crisis, which is being exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic with Yolanda Winstead, the President and CEO of DHIC, and Jesse McCoy, NCCU Law alum, and the James Scott Farrin Lecturing Fellow and the Supervising Attorney for the Civil Justice Clinic at Duke University Law School.

NCAA v. Alston and Student Athlete Monetization of NIL

On this show, we discuss the recent Supreme Court case NCAA v. Alston and student athletes’ ability to monetize their name, image, and likeness with Dr. Ingrid Wicker-McCree, NCCU Director of Athletics; Kendra Greene, NCCU Senior Associate Athletics Director for Internal Operations and Senior Woman Administrator; and Hannah Gaines, NCCU rising senior student-athlete and Captain of the Women’s tennis team for the 2021-2022 season.

Supreme Court Term 2020-21 Review

On this show, we discuss some of the major cases from the 2020-2021 Supreme Court term and implications for the future with NCCU Law Professors Don Corbett, Tamika Moses, and Susan Hauser.

Racial Wealth Gap & Reparations

On this show, we discuss the continuing racial wealth gap and the need for reparations with Dr. Henry McKoy, Professor of the NCCU School of Business and former Assistant Secretary of North Carolina Department of Commerce and Attorney Nikitra Bailey, Senior Vice President of Public Policy at the National Fair Housing Alliance.

Tisha Powell, broadcast journalist former WTVD-Channel 11 Evening News Anchor

On this show, we talk with recently retired WTVD Channel 11 New Anchor Tisha Powell and reflect on her journey.

Frederick Douglass & July 4

On this week’s episode, hosts Irv Joyner and April Dawson talk about Frederick Douglass and his famous and still relevant Fourth of July speech which was delivered by him in 1852 with guests James Williams, Attorney, and Chair of the NC Commission on Racial & Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System and former Public Defender for Orange and Chatham Counties; Tony Frazier, Professor of History at NCCU and Mellon-HBCU Fellowship recipient; and Erika Wilson, Professor of Law at UNC School of Law and director of the Critical Race Lawyering Civil Rights Clinic.

Qualified Immunity

On this week’s episode, hosts Irv Joyner and April Dawson talk about the use and scope of the legal protections which are provided to offending Police Officers with the Doctrine of Qualified Immunity with guests Kami Chavis, Vice Provost and Professor of Law at Wake Forest University School of Law, and Kristi Graunke, Legal Director of the NC ACLU.

LGBT Rights

On this week’s episode, hosts Irv Joyner and April Dawson talk about LGBTQ rights and the ongoing fight for equality for members of the LGBTQ community with Vernetta Alston, a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, representing the 29th district, and Lydia Lavelle, Mayor of Carrboro and a professor of law at NCCU School of Law.

Derek Chauvin/George Floyd Trial Summary and Consequences

On this week’s episode, hosts April Dawson and Irv Joyner talk with Professor Tamika Moses, a Criminal Law Specialist and former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, and Professor Donald Corbett, Constitutional Law Expert about the murder of George Floyd and the Derek Chauvin murder trial, verdict, and consequences.

Wrongful convictions of Leon Brown and Henry McCollum

On this week’s episode, hosts April Dawson and Irv Joyner sit down with Attorney Kenneth Rose, the former Executive Director of the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, and discuss the wrongful convictions of Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, their 40-year effort to establish their actual innocence and the legal victory which resulted in a jury award of more than $75 million in damages for the 31 years that they spent in prison.