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This program launches the ABA Coalition on Racial and Ethnic Justice’s new flagship webinar series, Race and Law. The inaugural year examines the intersection of race and the justice system, with a particular focus on overturned and wrongful convictions.

The opening event features Madeleine Baran, whose investigative reporting brought national attention to the case of Curtis Flowers. Through her work on the award-winning In the Dark podcast and her current reporting at The New Yorker, Baran exposed how race, prosecutorial discretion, and entrenched local power structures shaped Flowers’s repeated prosecutions and decades on death row.

This conversation will explore how racial bias operated throughout the criminal legal process in the Flowers case, what the case reveals about systemic failures within the justice system, and how investigative journalism can play a critical role in uncovering truth and advancing accountability.

Join for a timely and substantive discussion on race, law, and the power of storytelling in the pursuit of justice.

Featured Speaker
Madeleine Baran, Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Moderator
Diana-Marie Laventure, Senior Associate, Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan LLP; Liaison, ABA Coalition on Racial and Ethnic Justice