Professor @hasanjeffries brings his powerhouse expertise to The Legal Lens Podcast! He is a civil rights historian at The Ohio State University, author of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt, editor of Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement, and host of Teaching Hard History. A Brooklyn-raised Morehouse and Duke grad, he’s the younger brother of House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

In this clip, he unpacks why today’s seemingly challenged democracy isn’t the end, it’s a call to seize the moment and rebuild stronger, drawing from centuries of resilience by African-Americans and others.

No movement lasts forever, but the struggle? It’s continuous, from abolition to modern policing and voting rights.

Professor Jeffries’ vision fuels real hope for what’s next.

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Thrilled to drop the latest Legal Lens podcast episode with the brilliant Professor @hasanjeffries: civil rights historian at The Ohio State University, author, editor, podcast host, and the younger brother of House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries!

In this powerful conversation, we unpack how we remember (and misremember) Black freedom struggles and what it means for today’s fights, from his Crown Heights roots amid 1980s crises to Gen Z’s unstoppable hope carrying us forward.

A perfect Black History Month listen reminding us: Hope isn’t blind faith! It’s knowing people always fought for freedom.

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Thrilled to have attorney Deepak Gupta on the Legal Lens podcast! It is an honor to hear from one of the nation’s leading U.S. Supreme Court and appellate lawyers and to learn from his experience and expertise.

Throughout the conversation, attorney Gupta underscores that fair access to lawyers, courts, and legal rules is “half the battle,” and shows how dedicated appellate advocacy can still produce meaningful victories that improve everyday people’s lives.

He also provided advice for future lawyers and law students which I found to be right on the mark!

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“𝑊𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑎𝑤. 𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑒𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑟 𝑤𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑡. 𝐼 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡.”

Last week’s Legal Lens podcast left us with much food for thought. This quote from my guest, Attorney Deepak Gupta, offers a realistic view over our democracy along with a call to action for us all.

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Kicking off Black History Month with a powerful episode!

This week’s Legal Lens show features Hasan Kwame Jeffries, College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He also happens to be the brother of U.S. Congress House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries. Their parents did well!

Mr. Jeffries earned a PhD in American history with a specialization in African American history from Duke University and is the author of multiple papers and resources on the civil rights movement and African American history.

He regularly shares his knowledge of African American history and contemporary Black politics with the public and has contributed to several documentary film projects as a featured on-camera scholar, including the Emmy nominated, PBS documentary Black America Since MLK.

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From the legendary impact of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to Supreme Court victories: inspiration that endures.

This week’s Legal Lens gratefully welcomes Deepak Gupta, elite U.S. Supreme Court and appellate lawyer, and founding principal of the Gupta Wessler law firm.

Attorney Gupta shares how inspiration from Justice Marshall, the Civil Rights Movement, and his early work as a college debater and ACLU law student intern led him to a career focused on helping people access justice through the courts, even before a consistently conservative court.

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nation’s leading Supreme Court and appellate lawyers and founding principal of the Washington D.C. based public-interest firm Gupta Wessler LLP, to discuss how civil rights, civil liberties, and consumer protection are shaped at the U.S. Supreme Court and appellate court levels.

We explore the firm’s focus on the “law docket”—cases involving class actions, forced arbitration, securities fraud, and other issues that structure everyday economic life for consumers and workers, and what it means to practice before a conservative Supreme Court: why he believes you still don’t “give up,” and how careful legal arguments can sometimes prevail.

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Honored to welcome @MrKendallscudder, Chair of the @TexasDemocraticParty, to this week’s Legal Lens podcast!

Scudder traces Texas’s history as a former Democratic stronghold that powered some of America’s biggest progressive accomplishments—from the New Deal and Great Society to putting a man on the moon and producing the last balanced federal budget—and explains how losing Texas meant losing the party’s “steel backbone.”

He walks through the state’s current political landscape: Texas ranking 47th in voter turnout, the enormous number of non-voters who could swing elections, and the high-stakes redistricting fights that pushed Texas legislators to break quorum in 2025 to block extreme maps.

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