In high school, Nikole Hannah-Jones discovered both a profession and a purpose.
Working for the school newspaper, she began writing about students, like her,...
A Washington Post profile of Marian Wright Edelman describes a scene from 1967 in which she, as a 27-year-old civil rights attorney, leads Sen. Robert F. Kenned...
As a 24-year-old attorney—one of few African-American lawyers in his home state of Alabama in 1955—Fred Gray would meet with a department store employee over lu...
Katelyn Pierce has wanted to be an attorney since she was a child.
For Galen Baynes, lawyering came to mind only after he earned his bachelor’s degree.
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