The state of Black Atlanta was the topic of discussion one weekday night in the heart of the city. Three dozen men and women gathered in a large conference room for discussion.
The event, which took place at the Carter Center on Wednesday, May 7, was hosted by the Howard University School of Law’s Movement Lawyering Clinic , in partnership with the ACLU of Georgia and the Southern Center for Human Rights .
Summer Ford, a third-year student at the Howard School of Law and a student lawyer with the Movement Lawyering Clinic, was the MC for the evening. She told the crowd that the Movement Lawyering Clinic is in the process of making stops in cities around the country that have large Black populations.
“Of course, we have to come to Atlanta,” Ford, a native of Marietta and University of Georgia alum, said…