Shadia Tadros, attorney and candidate for City Court Judge, met with potential voters at an event on the South side.
Posts Tagged ‘Law’
Opening Scene
Tuesday, May 8th, 2018The Most Interesting Lawyer in the Cuse
Friday, June 16th, 2017
Gioia Gensini got into fitness to blow off steam when she was studying for the bar nearly 3 decades ago. Today she is a certified trainer at Metro Fitness. We caught up with her after one of her classes for Wellness Wednesday, which is held in Clinton Square.
Evidence of Innocence
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
Civil Rights attorney Barry Scheck came to national attention 20 years ago as a member of the O.J. Simpson defense team.
Throwback Thursday
Thursday, June 12th, 2014
Gloria and George Kilpatrick talk with Karen DeCrow (right) at the Skaneates Festival a few years ago.
Former NOW president, activist, and attorney Karen DeCrow passed away last week.
No Justice, No Peace
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
The Past is Not Past: The Continuing Quest for Racial Justice and Peace panel at was held before a capacity crowd at Syracuse University’s Newhouse III this morning (pictured l to r: Janis McDonald, Andrew Young, Linda Carty, Martin Luther King, III, and moderator Paula Johnson).
SU’s Linda Carty (Dept of African American Studies) cited several statistics and said there are several obstacles to the notion of peace, including: substandard education, poverty, and the misapplication of justice that spawned the prison industrial complex.
Former Ambassador Andrew Young said freedom is a constant struggle. He also advised students not to get mad, but to get smart.
SU alum and SIF Advisory Board Member John Giles, Jr. (pictured in the audience near event co-organizer Scott McDowell of SU-NYC and media personality George Kilpatrick) dialouges with the panel about coalition building as it relates to seeking justice in the modern day Civil Rights Movement.
Martin Luther King, III, the son of the legendary civil rights leader, said true justice is justice across the board (for everyone).
Good Guys Wear Black
Friday, December 31st, 2010
Hon. Langston McKinney
Today marked the end of an era. Syracuse City Court Judge Langston McKinney closed the chapter on his judicial service with a public valedictory exercise at the Onondaga Courthouse Building. Saying he wanted to pursue other interests that could not be done from the bench, McKinney and a few hundred of his friends celebrated and recollected on his more than 20 years of service.
Hon. Sandra Townes
Before he packed away his robe and gavel to accept the oath of private citizenship, Judge McKinney, in his last official act, swore in Judges Kate Rosenthal and Theodore Limpert.
Judge Langston McKinney swears in Hon. Theodore Limpert and Hon. Kate Rosenthal
Citizen McKinney
Justice for All
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
Judge Langston McKinney
Syracuse City Court Judge Langston McKinney (pictured above) will retire in a few weeks after more than two decades on the bench and almost 40 years in the legal profession. Here is an interview he did earlier this year with political scientist Grant Reeher.