A Light in the Night Air
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In every day something extraordinary happens. Such was the case on Wednesday, January 22nd, when a plane and a helicopter collided in the night sky over the Potomac River with a fireball, briefly turning night sky bright. Athletes, their parents, and a military training crew lost their lives that night, but they weren’t the only ones. A young, talented civil rights lawyer was among them, and her unexpected death sent shockwaves throughout her friends and colleagues at Harvard Law School.
She was Kiah Duggins, only twenty-one years old, but already a legal spitfire. While at Harvard, she was the President of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, where she and her team worked to prevent evictions during the harrowing pandemic of the COVID-19 virus, thereby saving families during a national crisis. Remarkably, she worked as a law student and as a lawyer after earning her law degree, working with the ACLU of Northern California, but this was not all, for this young woman, buoyed with the expansive energies of youth, worked with the law firm of Neufeld, Scheck and Brustin , as well. Also, she worked with the Civil Rights Corps, a non-profit dedicated to fighting systemic injustice. Kiah Duggins, at only 21 years old, was a lawyer’s lawyer.
Harvard Law School mourns her passing, as do, of course, her family and many who saw the radiance of her light. An American president, I speak of Herr Trump, opined that the accident that caused her death happened because of DEI, shorthand for Diversity Rules. Kiah Duggins, Esquire, had she not been on that plane, would probably havesmiled before suing him for slander. With love, not fear, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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