Do Black Lives Matter to the Criminal Justice System?

----Do Black Lives Matter to the Courts?---- It's a question raised time and time again when unarmed black men are killed by police and the officers are either not indicted, or not convicted. It's a question raised by NAACP Legal Defense Fund President Sherrilyn Ifill in a new collection of essays called Policing the Black Man: Arrest Prosecution and Imprisonment . Professor Angela J. Davis is the editor of Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution and Imprisonment . She's a law professor at American University's Washington College of Law. She's also the author of several books including Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor . Sherrilyn Ifill is the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund . She co-wrote the essay in Policing the Black Man with her colleague Jin Hee Lee ----Do Black Lives Matter to the Courts?---- Sherrilyn is the author of On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century .Email us at [email protected], tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.