READ-IN format:

Professor Browne-Marshall's Presentation: 20 minutes

Q&A session: 20-30 minutes.

Book signings: 20-30 minutes

Gloria Browne-Marshall is the Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who has litigated for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Southern Poverty Law center. She is a law professor who has appeared on C-Span, addressed the Congressional Black Caucus, and spoken to an audience at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

She is the author who has signed copies of two of her books, Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present and The U.S. Constitution: An African American Context, at Harlem's Hue-Man Bookstore.

Perhaps now most importantly, in her capacity as Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, Gloria Browne-Marshall is the go-to person to analyze and explain the January 21, 2024 ruling of the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission -- a decision which 1) overruled two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, 2) been editorialized as "the court's blow to democracy (NY Times,1/22/2010)," and 3) many have already called "radical."

The National African American READ-IN is also an opportunity for children and adolescents to learn more about African American history and the U.S. Constitution than they perhaps have ever learned in school.

And it's an opportunity for adults as well as children to hear critical analysis of how the U.S. Constitution shaped African American lives and how African Americans shaped the U.S. Constitution.