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Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is the author of a new book "A Protest History of the United States." She us an EMMY Award-winning writer of Your Democracy, author of "She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power," "Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present," "The Voting Rights War," "The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts" and "The Black Woman: 400 Years of Perseverance." Her forthcoming book is "A Protest History of the United States" (Beacon).
Gloria is a tenured Full Professor of Constitutional Law and Africana Studies at John Jay College (CUNY). She also taught in the Africana Studies Program at Vassar College.
Prior to academia, Gloria was a law clerk in state and federal court, litigated cases for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Community Legal Services, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc.
Gloria's essays have appeared in "We Refuse to be Silent: Women's Voices on Justice for Black Men," the Milwaukee Courier, TIME.com, CNN.com, NBC.com. She provides legal commentary and insight for articles in print and online.
Her play-in progress asks "who owns American history?" She is working on a documentary based on travels to Angola, a nonfiction book on uprisings, and her debut novel. Her poem "Mother Mythic" is in Penumbra.
Gloria's documentary "Before 1619: She Took Justice" about Queen Nzingha debuted in 2024. She is a playwright with seven stage-plays, including "SHOT: Caught a Soul" published by TRW, "My Juilliard," "Killing Me Softly," "Waverly Place," "Crossroad" asks who owns the American Dream, and "Dreams of Emmett Till" takes the murder of Till into the 21st century. She attended the Sarah Lawrence MFA playwrights program.
She is the recipient of the American Bar Assiciation's 2024 Silver Gavel Award, a 2022 IOP Harvard Kennedy School Fellowship, Pulitzer Center grant, Wiley College Woman of Excellence Award, NAACP Service Award, Emerging Screenwriter Award, (many film festival awards) and Frederick Lewis Allen Fellowship.
Gloria has appeared in several documentary films, including "Let The World See" on Mamie and Emmett Till, "Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom" and "Becoming Frederick Douglass."
Prof. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is an invited speaker nationally, internationally by media, colleges, and book festivals.