OUR COMMON GROUND May 19, 2012 - 10 pm ET Law Professor Vernellia Randall l Modern Day Enslavement: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE TRAP

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May 19, 2012   10 pm ET

Law professor, Vernellia Ruth Randall was born March 6, 1948 in Gladewater, Texas to Mary Pauline Hall Randall and Ernest Randall. Both parents were associated with Jarvis Christian College. Raised by her father in difficult circumstances in Mule Shoe, Texas, Randall attended the colored school there and graduated from Carver High School in Amarillo in 1966. Receiving an A.A. form Amarillo College, she entered the University of Texas and earned a B.S. from the School of Nursing. Randall obtained an M.S. in nursing from the University of Washington in 1978 and in 1987 her J.D. degree from Northwestern School of Law, Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. 

Starting a career in medicine as a nurse and a family nurse practitioner, Randall served as Maternal-Child Health Nurse Coordinator for the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services in Juneau, Alaska from 1979 to 1984. She has been a professor of nursing and community health at Oregon Health Sciences University and Wright State University as well as a law professor at Northwestern School of Law, Seattle University School of Law and the University of Dayton. She was an associate with the Portland law firm of Bullivant, Houser, Bailey, Pendergrass and Hoffman from 1987 to 1989. In 1994, Randall was hired as Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Dayton. Since that time she also has been director of the Academic Excellence Program for the University of Dayton, where she plans and implements academic support services for students and trains teaching assistants. 

Highly sought after as a public speaker on matters of health and race, Randall has also published widely. She is a recipient of the Chairman's Award from the Ohio Commission on Minority Health and has been honored by a Commendation from the Ohio House of Representatives. Randall is an accomplished webmaster and has received awards for her website development. Some of her sites include: "Race Health Care and the Law" and "Gender and the Law". Her latest book is entitled, Dying While Black. 

The mother of two sons, Randall enjoys computers, movies, sewing and dancing.

Her son Issa, is an outstanding artist who paints vivid and stirring images of our history.  

[Janice]

[Janice]

Update: May 11, 2012
Race, Racism and the Law
http://racism.org/

● Building a New Identity: Race, Gangs, and Violence in California Prisons, http://bit.ly/JzWwLN 

● Children of the American Prison Generation: Student and School Spillover Effects of Incarcerating Mothers, http://bit.ly/Ka3FQb

● Criminalization of Children: The Pipeline, http://bit.ly/JejHgp 

● Disproportionate Representation of Minority Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: a Lack of Clarity and Too Much Disparity among States “addressing” the Issue, http://bit.ly/JvUIo6

● Food Justice as Interracial Justice: Urban Farmers, Community Organizations and the Role of Government in Oakland, California,http://bit.ly/IRrCxi

● Is Genocide Different?: Dealing with Hate Speech in a Post-Genocide Society, http://bit.ly/L12X8p

● The Conflict of Juvenile Shaming Punishments,http://bit.ly/JqqRjB

● The Impact of Prohibiting Legal Service Corporation Offices from Representing Undocumented Immigrants on Migrant Farmworker Litigation, http://bit.ly/JOiAny

● The Influence of a Judge's Background on Decision Making,http://bit.ly/KlT7lg

● Undocumented Debtors, http://bit.ly/McFQ0e