Caribbean American Attorney creates Law School scholarship for HBCU grads

[get these nets]

UF Law Announces HBCU Pathway to Law Endowed Scholarship

YOLANDA CASH JACKSON

August 24, 2020 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Becker, a multi-practice commercial law firm with attorneys, lobbyists, and other professionals at offices throughout the East Coast, announced that Management Committee Member and Government Relations Shareholder Yolanda Cash Jackson created The University of Florida Levin College of Law’s (UF Law) largest endowed scholarship fund.

Ms. Jackson, who received her J.D. from UF Law in 1990, had long envisioned a program designed to recruit the academically talented graduates from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to UF Law. With Ms. Jackson’s initial gift plus other alumni contributions in the Spring of 2020, the HBCU Pathway to Law fund quickly surpassed $100,000 in commitments.

As the country mourned the passing of civil rights icon John Lewis in July, Sarasota developer Hugh Culverhouse donated $1,000,000 to the new scholarship fund in Lewis’s memory.

The HBCU Pathway to Law fund will help UF Law enroll at least five HBCU graduates annually with full tuition scholarships. These students will be known as John Lewis Scholars and receive enhanced engagement opportunities with the UF Law Black Alumni network. UF Law will undertake a year-long campaign to match the Culverhouse gift and grow the fund to $2,000,000 before 2022.

Ms. Jackson said, “Hugh and I hope that our donations will motivate additional contributions from UF Law alumni, friends of the law school, law firms, bar associations, corporate entities and charitable foundations in honor of John Lewis and the strong traditions of America’s HBCUs.”

“My donation honors John Lewis’ commitment to fighting social injustice which began with lunch counter sit-ins and the original Freedom Rides. I’m hoping that the new John Lewis Scholars will use their legal education to continue his struggle for social justice,” explained Hugh Culverhouse.

Becker’s Government Relations team has represented HBCUs at the state and federal level for over ten years including successfully obtaining historical levels of funding for private Florida HBCUs during the past legislative session.

==================
@MarciknoW your fellow Bahamian put it together

 

[10bandz]

That's dope. Shout out to this sister, this is the type of energy we need

 

[Neo TheInsurrectionistONE]

is she ADOS?


Looks like her daddy is from the Caribbean just like Kamala's daddy


















Nah but real talk, salute to this sista

 

[get these nets]

UF Law announces college’s largest endowed scholarship

• Aug 26, 2020

The UF’s Levin College of Law’s latest, and largest, scholarship yet, $1.1 million, will fund the full tuition of five law students who graduated from historically Black colleges and universities.

The first class of scholarship recipients will be chosen in Fall 2021, said Levin Dean Laura Rosenbury. The scholarship will cover the full three years of tuition at Levin College of Law, regardless whether the recipients are in-state or out-of-state, she said.


The college administration hopes to expand HBCU Pathway to Law Endowed Scholarship to $2 million by 2021 and fund another five students, eventually totaling to 10, through fundraising with law associations and alumni, Rosenbury said.

Yolanda Cash Jackson, a 62-year-old 1990 Levin College of Law alumna, began the scholarship March 2019 with college administration, making it the first endowed scholarship created by Black Levin College of Law alumni.

Jackson said she hopes the scholarship will increase diversity in the college and the law profession.

“The University of Florida has never had a lot of students like me,” she said.

At the beginning of August, Hugh Culverhouse, a 1974 UF Levin College of Law graduate, donated $1 million to the scholarship fund after congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis’ death in July, Rosenbury said. The scholarship recipients will be called John Lewis Scholars in his honor, Jackson said.

More than 75 percent of students from historically Black colleges and universities rely on Pell Grants, a form of federal grants for low-income students, to pay for college, according to the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, an organization representing HBCUs and predominantly Black universities.


In 2019, less than 9%, or about 80 of the 890, Levin College of Law students were Black, according to UF’s enrollment data. About 5% of American lawyers are Black, according to 2020 demographics from the American Bar Association.


Black students make up less than 6% of UF’s 56,000 students, according to the data.
Professor Katheryn Russell-Brown, the director of the Levin College of Law’s Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations, said the college’s upcoming graduating class has only 15 Black law students.

“Race has an impact on and engages with all aspects of laws,” she said. “Not just criminal law, not just constitutional law, but fact law, property law, zoning, artificial intelligence, administrative law.”

UF departments across the university are starting initiatives to increase diversity and address equity after nationwide Black Lives Matter protests.https://www.alligator.org/news/stud...cle_c1c84afe-bd69-11ea-ba32-d3a19d009d91.html


Jackson said she and college administration began talks for the scholarship when she made a commencement speech at the college’s May 2019 graduation ceremony.

Jackson’s initial contribution to the scholarship in March this year was the first of three contributions from other Black alumni, she said.

Jackson said she wanted to continue the legacy of historic Black figures at UF like Virgil Hawkins, a Black student who sued UF for his right to attend in 1949, nine years before UF integrated, and George Allen, UF’s first Black graduate.

Spoiler: Virgil Hawkins story

“Although many years have passed, we are still having the same discussion at the college of law about inclusion,” she said

 

[thekingsmen]

is she ADOS?


Looks like her daddy is from the Caribbean just like Kamala's daddy

 

[thekingsmen]

Need more positive threads like this

 

[Neo TheInsurrectionistONE]

Was just calling attention to the ridiculousness of ADOS philosophy

 

[thekingsmen]

UF Law announces college’s largest endowed scholarship

• Aug 26, 2020

The UF’s Levin College of Law’s latest, and largest, scholarship yet, $1.1 million, will fund the full tuition of five law students who graduated from historically Black colleges and universities.

The first class of scholarship recipients will be chosen in Fall 2021, said Levin Dean Laura Rosenbury. The scholarship will cover the full three years of tuition at Levin College of Law, regardless whether the recipients are in-state or out-of-state, she said.


The college administration hopes to expand HBCU Pathway to Law Endowed Scholarship to $2 million by 2021 and fund another five students, eventually totaling to 10, through fundraising with law associations and alumni, Rosenbury said.

Yolanda Cash Jackson, a 62-year-old 1990 Levin College of Law alumna, began the scholarship March 2019 with college administration, making it the first endowed scholarship created by Black Levin College of Law alumni.

Jackson said she hopes the scholarship will increase diversity in the college and the law profession.

“The University of Florida has never had a lot of students like me,” she said.

At the beginning of August, Hugh Culverhouse, a 1974 UF Levin College of Law graduate, donated $1 million to the scholarship fund after congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis’ death in July, Rosenbury said. The scholarship recipients will be called John Lewis Scholars in his honor, Jackson said.

More than 75 percent of students from historically Black colleges and universities rely on Pell Grants, a form of federal grants for low-income students, to pay for college, according to the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, an organization representing HBCUs and predominantly Black universities.


In 2019, less than 9%, or about 80 of the 890, Levin College of Law students were Black, according to UF’s enrollment data. About 5% of American lawyers are Black, according to 2020 demographics from the American Bar Association.


Black students make up less than 6% of UF’s 56,000 students, according to the data.
Professor Katheryn Russell-Brown, the director of the Levin College of Law’s Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations, said the college’s upcoming graduating class has only 15 Black law students.

“Race has an impact on and engages with all aspects of laws,” she said. “Not just criminal law, not just constitutional law, but fact law, property law, zoning, artificial intelligence, administrative law.”

UF departments across the university are starting initiatives to increase diversity and address equity after nationwide Black Lives Matter protests.


Jackson said she and college administration began talks for the scholarship when she made a commencement speech at the college’s May 2019 graduation ceremony.

Jackson’s initial contribution to the scholarship in March this year was the first of three contributions from other Black alumni, she said.

Jackson said she wanted to continue the legacy of historic Black figures at UF like Virgil Hawkins, a Black student who sued UF for his right to attend in 1949, nine years before UF integrated, and George Allen, UF’s first Black graduate.

Spoiler: Virgil Hawkins story

“Although many years have passed, we are still having the same discussion at the college of law about inclusion,” she said

The Seven Decade Civil Rights Battle of Florida's Rosa Parks: Virgil Darnell Hawkins is detailed in this edited version of an hour-long PBS Documentary entitled: "A Lawyer Made in Heaven" (produced by Univ. Of Detroit Law Professor Larry Dubin). From 1949 - 1958, Hawkins waged a nine-year fight in the courts with the State of Florida, which had the illegal and complicit assistance of the Florida Supreme Court. Despite great risk to his family and his life, Hawkins refused to give up his right to a seat in the law school classrooms of the University of Florida until Florida's Public Universities were ordered to desegregate and that seat could be filled by another African-American law student. Because Florida defied the direct orders of the U.S. Supreme Court, (recently imitated by the gay marriage decisions of the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court) Hawkins chose to sacrifice his right to attend the University of Florida and his opportunity to be a Florida Attorney during the productive years of his life. His Dream of Defending the Defenseless in Florida's Courts was delayed until he was age 70, when the costs of his sacrifice destroyed his dream and his reputation. After his death, the Florida Supreme Court that had illegally refused to obey the U.S. Supreme Court, entered an unprecedented Order, restoring his reputation and status as a member of the Florida Bar. The Florida and Polk County Chapters of the National Bar Association are now named after him.

 

[MajesticLion]

Respect due.

 

[xoxodede]

Was just calling attention to the ridiculousness of ADOS philosophy

Please stop. Especially, since you don't understand nor care what the ADOS initiatives are.

And this thread was not the place to even throw your uninformed and lame ass comment in.

 

[xoxodede]

Much respect and love to Mrs. Jackson.

Many blessings to her!