Raising The Bar: How Are Black & Latinx Communities Disproportionately Affected by COVID-19?
April 26, 2020
On this edition of #RaisingTheBar, The Manhattan Black Bar Association's Jason Clark and Adeola Adejobi sit down with City Councilmember Donovan J. Richards and Lurie Favors to discuss how the coronavirus pandemic is disproportionately affecting people in the African American community.
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Raising the Bar with the MBBA
Co-hosts Jason Clark, President of the Metropolitan Black Bar Association (MBBA), Attorney Adeola Adejobi, and their guests discuss legal issues facing the African American community.
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