Special Note TLA Received From Tufts Alumni Regarding Tonight's Program - Racial Disparities in the Legal Profession (Jan. 13, 2021 @6PM)

 As I opened up my email this morning, I was welcomed with an inspiring note from three Tufts Alumni to the Tufts Lawyers Association regarding tonight's event, Racial Disparities in the Legal Profession: Retaining, Advancing and Developing Attorneys of Color.  

The email reads:

Thomas Dunn, TLA President,

Dear Thomas,

The three of us, Milton K. Brown, Cynthia Burns Polk, and Robert H. Kelley, are 1970 graduates of Tufts University.  We signed up for the seminar titled "Racial Disparities in the Legal Profession" because, as three African-American lawyers, we are well aware of such disparities. 

When we first met each other in the Fall of 1966, we were well aware of the many disparities that existed throughout our Nation.  That led us to combine our individual fights for civil rights and equal access to liberty and justice for all into a combined effort.  Our combined effort included our being founding members of the Tufts Afro-American Society and the Afro-American Cultural Center (now called the Africana Center). 

Fifty-five years after we first met, we can rejoice to see that causes we fought for have been successfully passed along to succeeding graduating classes and generations of Jumbos who, along the way, have added succeeding generations of important related issues and causes. 

Milton K. Brown

Cynthia Burns Polk

Robert H. Kelley

TLA, led by its Public Interest and Social Justice Committee on these issues, is so appreciative of the efforts and progress obtained by our fellow Jumbos and we are honored to continue these discussions to encourage meaningful dialogue, awareness, and change.  

We are happy to report that we have over 230 registrants for tonight's program.  There is still time to REGISTER

Tom Dunn, TLA President, 401-490-3418, rtdunn@PierceAtwood.com