Tuesday, 15 February 2011 10:35 Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 February 2012 22:04
Gloria Browne-Marshall, civil rights attorney and law professor, issues a Report on the Status of Black Women and Girls® and makes the U.S. Constitution useful and practical for African-Americans.
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is the author of Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present as well as The U.S. Constitution: An African-American Context and The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts.
With expertise in Constitutional Law and international issues, Professor Browne-Marshall is an Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) and the CUNY Graduate Center, and she is also a member of the Gender Studies Program. She has worked with law and policy issues of concern to vulnerable groups, specifically children, women, and people of color in the United States, Africa, and Europe. Professor Browne-Marshall has a litigation background in civil rights, children's healthcare, education, and criminal justice issues. She has presented interventions before the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on issues of racial justice. Gloria Browne-Marshall is the Director/Founder of The Law and Policy Group, Inc., a 501(c) 3 organization, which is a think tank for the community. The Law and Policy Group Press publishes the Report on the Status of Black Women and Girls(R) which is the only ongoing national report on the state of Black females in America. The Law and Policy Group Press also publishes The U.S. Constitution: An African-American Context which contains the complete U.S. Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, facts, and cases regarding the African-American fight for justice under law.
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is an award-winning playwright, free-lance journalist, and recipient of the 2009 Ida B. Wells-Barnett Justice Award. As a journalist, she travelled to Oslo, Norway, to cover President Barack Obama's receipt of the Noble Peace Prize. She speaks nationally and internationally on criminal justice, civil rights, gender equality, human rights, and child advocacy issues. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, and several civic organizations. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall writes books, essays, and legal articles on issues of racial justice, which specifically relate to the role of women.