Angi Porter

Thank you so much 🙏🏾 I deeply appreciate this kind note

Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

Disgusting.

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More photos from such a memorable visit to Clark Atlanta (Feb. 25)!! Discussing Africana Legal Studies with students in the Pre-Law Program in the Dr. Mack H. Jones Political Science Department, with members of the wonderful Atlanta community, and with dear family and friends.

Congratulations to Professors @angimaryssa.bsky.social and Anita Sinha on being named AALS Teachers of the Year for 2024! This honor recognizes faculty members nominated by their peers for excellence in teaching and their contributions to their law schools. Read more: tinyurl.com/aals-best-te...

It was such an honor to facilitate a fireside chat with the wonderful aderson francois last week at the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law's Symposium, "The Constitution and Its Culture Wars."

Thank you so much, Maya! Your support means the world!

Fascinating new article by the brilliant @angimaryssa.bsky.social. I always learn so much from Angi and it's a thrill to see her developing the field of Africana Legal Studies

It feels odd to uplift this given everything happening in the world, but in the spirit of celebrating when we can, I’m thrilled to share that my article “Prison Grievance Creep” is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review. Thank you to everyone who generously provided feedback!

Thank you so much for the shout out, Jamie! 🙏🏾

Wondering how to spend your Friday night free time while not shopping, eating out, or scrolling Facebook? Check out this amazing article by @angimaryssa.bsky.social. Hot off the presses!

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The great Listervelt Middleton kicks it off 🙏🏾

My new article, "POISON!", is now available 😊 Thank you to the editors over at the Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality!
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Ah~ Clark Atlanta, I will always remember this day. I got to do a fireside chat on Africana Legal Studies with Attorney and Professor Mawuli Davis of the Pre-Law Program in the Dr. Mack H. Jones Political Science Department! Stopped to take a photo with Dr. Du Bois on the beautiful campus.

This Call to Urgency says that the opening weeks of the second Trump administration has created a challenge to the rule of law of a magnitude that none of us has seen in our lifetimes.

More than 400 law professors from across the country have signed the following statement to call attention to the constitutional crisis that the nation is now facing. Please read and repost! Thank you!!!

Speaks for itself.

" . . . In constitutional law the spinelessness of the United States Supreme Court in permitting the judicial nullification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments was and still is boldly upheld in our few law schools.” - Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro

“Negro law students were told that they belonged to the most criminal element in the country; and an effort was made to justify the procedure in the seats of injustice where law was interpreted as being one thing for the white man and a different thing for the Negro. . . ."

Anyway, it was deep. Left me with a lot to think about. And the singers were very good.

Especially bc it is an abrupt shift. It's definitely an element of the fantasy. But by being so over the top, it emphasizes that, in reality, enslavers acted opposite. They unapologetically exploited their own children, broke up families, and killed people "under their correction"

Even the conciliatory ending seems like a critique. It's like an alternate reality where enslavers actually admit they are wrong, course correct, punish enslaved Africans for resisting their wrongs. Initially I was unsatisfied with that ending but now I'm interpreting it differently

So, "Morgiane" fits right in with that, but is set in Western Asia, which i think makes it pretty subversive. Some of the lines in the opera seem like direct call outs of US enslavement. Very express critiques.

Not just Micheaux though. (That's just who I often think about because I'm a fan). But those themes of hidden/surprise ancestry and using that to critique enslavers and oppressors were really popular in entertainment of the late 1800s and early 1900s

This is about enslavement! It's just posed as an analogy. So good. And probably would have been controversial had it come out in the nineteenth century when it was written

This is like Michaeux's "Within Our Gates"! Similar plot points. Common thread: it's a critique of the evils of oppressors.

Just thinking about how the Constitution still allows enslavement as punishment for a crime.... in times like these, i really wish that had been amended.

The way that my Higher Education Law lesson plans are changing in real time 🥴

It's not just that Elon Musk did that salute, it's also that he was talking about "civilization."

Hate-watching.
1. Michelle Obama's absence is LOUD.
2. Ketanji Brown Jackson is wearing COWRIE SHELLS.

🥰 thank you so much, @bechamilton.bsky.social
I feel the same way about you~

Haha i love it!