As "Reasonable Doubt's" Jax Stewart becomes the newest Black woman lawyer to grace our television screens, TheWrap wanted to ...

For example, she has been told she doesn’t look like a lawyer, leading her to feel like she has to work twice as hard to gain the same level of respect and recognition as her peers. Another form of ...

In the 1880s she became the first Black woman to enroll at Howard, one of the first graduates of Howard Law School, and the ...

Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of law at Yale University and author of “Invisible: The Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster.” ...

as well as the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Her story highlights the importance of perseverance and self-belief. It reminds us not to restrict ...

Farris has been recognized for her achievements as a Black woman and lawyer in an age of segregation and discrimination in Jim Crow-era Wichita Falls. Farris, daughter of Wichita Falls educators ...