A conversation with Mikelina Belaineh. Mikelina's career has been spent exploring how to facilitate community regeneration and empowerment in marginalized communities. Mikelina is a lawyer who graduated from Harvard in 2016. After taking the bar exam, Mikelina chose not to practice due to dissatisfaction with available job opportunities. Mikelina's work has focused on examining the disparate impact of the criminal legal system on black and brown communities. The Last Prisoner

A conversation with Judge William Murphy and Amy Fettig. This month, Amy Fettig joined our conversation with Judge Murphy for The Justice Beat's legal hour. The purpose of the legal hour is to provide our listening audience with advocacy strategies, litigation strategies, and/or next steps for tackling social justice reform issues. This week, we had the opportunity to speak at length with Fettig and Murphy regarding criminal justice reform and sentencing. William H. Murphy, J

A conversation with Eugena Lomax, Terrell Borum, Kenneth Woods, & Dr. Raymond Scott about mental health challenges and accessible tips and tools to address them. Eugena Lomax Eugena is the founder and therapist of Elevate Counseling & Coaching Services. She is a licensed professional counselor earning her master's degree from Lindenwood University. She has spent the past 17 years helping clients in various settings to improve their choices and learn what factors influence the

A conversation with Judge Carlos Moore. This week, we had the opportunity to speak with Judge Carlos Moore. Moore was born and raised in Mississippi where he was appointed as the first African-American Municipal Judge for the city of Clarksdale. He is an active participant in several bar associations including the American Bar Association, National Bar Association, American Association for Justice, The Mississippi Bar, Magnolia Bar Association, Mississippi Association for Jus