The Legal Eagle Review

On this show, we talk with Professor Kia Vernon, who teaches contracts at the NCCU School of Law, about consumer contract transactions and often unknown pitfalls.

On this show, we talk with Attorneys Hugh Harris and Mercedes Restucha-Klem, with the Public Protection Section of the N.C. Attorney General Office, about Corona Virus scams.

During this show, we discuss the impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the Black community with Leonard Dunston, Convener of the Black Family Summit.

On this show, we discuss the impact the Coronavirus pandemic and the government’s response to the disease is having on our criminal justice system with James E. Williams, former Chief Public Defender for Orange and Chatham Counties, and Caitlin Fenhagen, Director of the Orange County Criminal Justice Resource Department.

On this show, we discuss tax information and tips for filing 2019 taxes with Attorney Matthew James, Director of the NCCU Law Low Income Taxpayer Clinic and NCCU Attorney Fellow, Jonathan Kerr.

On this show, we discuss the history, impact, challenges, and future of the African American press. Joining us for this discussion are Cash Michael, a journalist for several newspapers in North Carolina and Professor Brett Chambers, who teaches in the Department of Mass Communications at North Carolina Central University.

In recognition of the MLK Day of Service Federal Holiday which commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birth, we talk with Ted Shaw, UNC School of Law Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil Rights and Jarvis Hall, Professor of Political Science at North Carolina Central University.

On this show, talk about NC Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin, the State v. Mann decision he authored, and the need for the honest and complete recounting of history. We talk with Eric Muller, the Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor in Jurisprudence and Ethics at UNC-Chapel Hill Law School and James Williams, retired Orange County Chief Public Defender and avid history buff.

The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Comcast v. National Association of African American-Owned Media. This is a discrimination suit brought by the African American actor and comedian Byron Allen against Comcast for failure to carry his network. Allen alleges that the reason Comcast decided not to carry his network was based on race, and Allen is suing under the Civil Rights Act of 1866. During this show, we talk about the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and how the Supreme Court's decision may affect the future of the country's oldest civil rights statute with Don Corbett, Professor of Law at North Carolina Central University School of Law.

The United States Constitution requires a census of the American population every ten years, and the next census count will occur in April 2020. We discuss the need for an accurate census count and efforts to ensure full participation with Stacey Carless, Executive Director of the NC Counts Coalition, and Juliana Cabrales, Mid-Atlantic Director of Civic Engagement for the National Association of Latino Elected Officials Educational Fund (NALEO).