Historically Black Law Schools Stay the Course on Social Justice Mission

Historically Black Law Schools Stay the Course on Social Justice Mission: For Kourtni Mason, a student at the Southern University Law Center, a historically Black law school in Baton Rouge, La., two years of hard work, hands-on experience and coaching from hard-charging professors were put to the test last summer during an internship at a mid-sized New Orleans law firm.

At the firm, Mason worked alongside interns from big-name law schools such as Louisiana State University, Vanderbilt and Tulane. She got to combine her classroom knowledge and the practical tips she’d received from her professors about work ethic and expectations in the practice of law with the experience she received in clinics where she and her classmates worked with real clients.