{"id":238238,"date":"2026-03-26T23:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/238238\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T23:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:07:06","slug":"black-at-berkeley-law-display-honors-legacy-leadership-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/238238\/","title":{"rendered":"Black at Berkeley Law Display Honors Legacy, Leadership, Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new display project called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.berkeley.edu\/news\/on-display\/black-at-berkeley-law\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Black at Berkeley Law: Honoring the Past, Shaping the Future<\/a> was installed recently on the law school\u2019s first floor. Celebrating the enduring legacy, leadership, and community of Berkeley Law\u2019s Black students, scholars, and advocates, it features Walter A. Gordon 1922, the school\u2019s first Black graduate; Annie Virginia Stephens Coker 1929, the first Black woman to graduate from Berkeley Law and practice law in California; and Christopher Edley Jr., the school\u2019s first Black dean. The display also highlights the student-led organizations Law Students of African Descent and the Berkeley Journal of Black Law &amp; Policy, which developed the project with Black Lives at Cal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new display project called Black at Berkeley Law: Honoring the Past, Shaping the Future was installed recently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-238238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}