Black Legal Futurism Conference - CLE

Black Legal Futurism is related to Afrofuturism, which can be defined as a cultural aesthetic and philosophy aimed at imagining the future through the lens of people from the African diaspora. We use the term Black Legal Futurism rather than Afrofuturism because we want participants to make concrete, “outside the box” political, economic, and legal policy proposals. Taking a Black Legal Futurist view will have three important implications.

First, the conference will feature perspectives seeking the well-being of peoples of African descent in the United States of America.

Second, the conference will highlight concrete proposals for how to create positive political, economic, and legal outcomes for peoples of African descent.

Third, the conference will be oriented toward the future, which could include a five, twenty five, or fifty-year horizon.

This conference will consist of four Roundtable discussions

1. What is Black Legal Futurism?
2. Arts & Culture
3. Policing
4. Economic Community Development

• Daryl Atkinson - Forward Justice
• Monica Bell - Yale Law
• Vinay Harpalani - University of New Mexico School of Law
• Javon L. Johnson - University of Nevada, Las Vegas Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies
• Ngozi Okidegbe - Boston University School of of Law
• Moderator - Frank Rudy Cooper - William S. Boyd School of Law Professor of Law - Director, Program on Race, Gender & Policing

• Etienne C. Toussaint - University of South Carolina School of Law
• Ebony Toussaint - Institute for Southern Studies College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Carolina
• Briana Whiteside - University of Nevada, Las Vegas Department of English
• Moderator - Stewart Chang - William S. Boyd School of Law Associate Dean For Academic Affairs

Presented in partnership with the Black Mountain Institute

Beverly Theater - 515 S 6th St, Las Vegas, NV

Information & Tickets: https://blackmountaininstitute.org/event/an-evening-with-tananarive-due/

Tananarive Due(tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder’s groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote “A Small Town” for Season 2 of Jordan Peele’s “The Twilight Zone” on Paramount Plus, and two segments of Shudder’s anthology film Horror Noire. They also co-wrote their upcoming Black Horror graphic novel The Keeper, illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Due and Barnes co-host a podcast, “Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!”

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Featuring an exhibit from Storming Caesar's Palace - made possible by UNLV University Libraries

• Claytee White - Director, Oral History Research Center at UNLV Libraries

• Daryl Atkinson - Co-Director and Co-Founder Forward Justice
• Monica Bell - Yale Law
• Frank Rudy Cooper - William S. Boyd School of Law Director, Program on Race, Gender & Policing
• Robert Futrell - UNLV Professor of Sociology
• Leisa Moseley-Sayles - Nevada State Director, Fines & Fees Justics Center
• India Thusi - Indiana University Bloomington Maurer School of Law
• Leslie Turner - Co-founder and Co-director Mass Liberation Project, Nevada
• Moderator - Addie Rolnick - San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Professor of Law - Associate Director, Program on Race, Gender & Policing

10:45 AM - Presentation by ACLU of Nevada Director Athar Haseebullah

• Senator Dallas Harris - Nevada Senator for the 11th District
• TaShika Lawson - Historic Westside Revitalization Group
• Lynnise Pantin - New York University School of Law
• Veryl Pow - Golden Gate University School of Law
• Kathi Thomas - The Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority
• Moderator: Patience Crowder - William S. Boyd School of Law Professor of Law - Director, Entrepreneurship & Economic Justice Clinic

A conversation among Westside community members about how Boyd Law's new Economic Justice and Small Business Clinic can help support economic development efforts in the community.

Thank you to our community partners:

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV & West Las Vegas Library Theater, UNLV - 4505 South Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, United States