NLAEP

Our mission is to eradicate legal, institutional, and social injustice against African Americans.  We strive to uplift and improve the living conditions of African Americans through education and legal empowerment.

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"On the front lines of our legal system, [Laura] Coates saw how Black communities are policed
differently; Black cases are prosecuted differently; Black defendants are judged differently. How the
court system seems to be the one place where minorities are overrepresented, an unrelenting parade of
Black and Brown defendants in numbers that belie their percentage in the population and overfill
American prisons. She also witnessed how others in the system either abused power or were abused by
it—for example, when an undocumented witness was arrested by ICE, when a white colleague taught
Coates how to unfairly interrogate a young Black defendant, or when a judge victim-blamed a young
sexual assault survivor based on her courtroom attire.
Through these revelatory and captivating scenes from the courtroom, Laura Coates explores the tension
between the idealism of the law and the reality of working within the parameters of our flawed legal
system, exposing the chasm between what is right and what is lawful.”

-Simon & Schuster, synopsis of Just Pursuit by Laura Coates-CNN legal analyst. 

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