By Rebecca Armendariz

Howard University School of Law will host a forum titled "Jumping the Broom: Civil Marriage and the Black Community” on Wednesday, Feb. 13 from 5 - 6:30 p.m. in classroom three of Houston Hall, Howard University School of Law, 2900 Van Ness Street, NW, Washington D.C.

The groups sponsoring this forum are the ACLU chapter at Howard University’s School of Law, the ACLU of Maryland, the Maryland Black Family Alliance, the Howard Law American Constitution Society, OutLaw, and Law Students for Reproductive Justice. A dinner reception will follow.

Guests present will be: Elbridge James, Director of the Maryland Black Family Alliance;
David Rocah, Staff Attorney and Litigator of Conaway v. Deane, from the ACLU of Maryland; H. Alexander Robinson, Executive Director of the National Black Justice Coalition; and Mikki Mozelle and Lisa Kebreau, a plaintiff couple from Conaway v. Deane, the Maryland civil marriage equality lawsuit.

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