The Legal Lens Podcast

Angela Reddock-Wright sits down with Virginia Kase Solomón, President and CEO of Common Cause, for a wide-ranging conversation tracing the throughline from a deeply personal voting-rights story to the structural forces reshaping American democracy today. Solomón explains how her foster mother's experience facing discrimination at the voting polls in Hartford, Connecticut shaped a 30-plus-year care...

In this episode of The Legal Lens, Angela Reddock‑Wright sits down with CA Assemblymember Sade Elhawary, an educator, organizer, foster mom, and first‑term representative for California’s 57th Assembly District, which includes South Central, Downtown LA, Skid Row, and Exposition Park. Sade shares how a spontaneous “I’m with the Blacks” speech at LA City Hall propelled her from organizing behind th...

In this episode of The Legal Lens, Angela Reddock‑Wright sits down with Jenn Stowe, executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) and head of Care in Action, to talk about how domestic workers are organizing for dignity, better working conditions, and real political power. Now based in Richmond, Virginia, Jenn shares her journey as the granddaughter of a domestic worker growi...

In this episode of The Legal Lens, Angela Reddock‑Wright is joined by Ashley Allison—CNN commentator, publisher of The Root (originally founded by the renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates), and founder of Watering Hole Media—and Jasmine Browley, a Forbes contributor, former business editor at Essence, and writer and contributor with BET, to explore why Black‑owned and Black‑led media are essenti...

In Part II of The Legal Lens series on the Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais decision, Angela Reddock‑Wright is joined by Attorney Stephen King, civil‑rights trial lawyer and newly installed 50th president of the California Association of Black Lawyers (CABL), and Attorney Carmen‑Nicole Cox, “liberation attorney,” CABL boardmember, and 2026 CABL Lawyer of the Year. Building on the legal analysi...

In Part I of this two‑part series on the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, Angela Reddock‑Wright is joined by returning guest Dr. T. Anansi Wilson—public defender, constitutional law scholar, and Supreme Court expert—to unpack how the Court’s 6–3 ruling reshapes the Voting Rights Act and minority political power. Dr. Wilson explains the structure and timing of the Supreme Court ter...

In this episode of The Legal Lens podcast, Angela Reddock‑Wright sits down with Attorney Elizabeth “Paige” White, a Washington, D.C.–based criminal defense and civil rights lawyer, to trace her journey from service‑oriented parents and an early sense of right and wrong to becoming a public defender, working with Attorney Ben Crump, and taking on high‑impact cases. Paige talks about how law school...

In this episode of The Legal Lens, Angela Reddock‑Wright talks with Lourdes Castro Ramírez, President and CEO of the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) under the leadership of Mayor Karen Bass, which serves more than 200,000 residents and is the second‑largest public housing authority in the nation. As she explains, HACLA’s work rests on three core pillars: preventing people from...

In this episode of The Legal Lens, Angela Reddock‑Wright talks with Twyla Carter, Attorney‑in‑Chief and CEO of the Legal Aid Society of New York City, the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit public defense and civil legal‑services provider. Twyla shares what it means now to lead Legal Aid at a moment she describes as “the civil rights war of our lifetime.” Twyla also walks listeners through Lega...

In this episode of The Legal Lens, Angela Reddock‑Wright talks with attorney Lauren Guth Barnes, Acting Chief Executive Officer of Public Justice, about her journey from complex and class action litigation against drug companies to leading a national legal‑advocacy organization focused on “unrigging” the civil justice system. Now, as acting CEO, she helps guide Public Justice’s work across its cor...

In this episode of The Legal Lens, Angela Reddock‑Wright sits down with Kellie Todd Griffin, CEO of the California Black Women’s Collective Empowerment Institute, to talk about the resilience, joy, and systemic challenges facing Black women in California. Kellie shares her personal story—growing up with a single mother who navigated domestic violence, job instability, mental health struggles, and...

In this episode of The Legal Lens, Angela Reddock‑Wright talks with April Verrett, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)—one of North America’s largest unions representing more than 2 million workers—about her journey from growing up poor on the South Side of Chicago to leading a national labor movement. April shares how being raised by a grandmother who sometimes had to “r...

In this episode of The Legal Lens, Angela Reddock‑Wright sits down with Angela Ferrell‑Zabala, Executive Director of Moms Demand Action, to talk about how a Facebook group born after the Sandy Hook massacre grew into one of the country’s most influential grassroots gun‑violence‑prevention movements. Ferrell-Zabala shares how, as a mother of four living in the D.C. region, watching gun violence dev...

In this episode of The Legal Lens, Angela Reddock‑Wright sits down with Attorney Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, to talk about gender justice and the enduring power of Title IX. Fatima explains how the Law Center, founded in 1972, works on multiple fronts—litigation, policy, and culture change—to defend reproductive freedom, support families struggling wit...

In this episode of The Legal Lens, Angela Reddock‑Wright talks with attorney Nicole Austin‑Hillery, President and CEO of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF), about her journey from growing up as a proud “project kid” in Harrisburg public housing to becoming a civil and human rights lawyer and leading a premier Black policy institution. She shares how her single mother and an eighth‑gr...

In this episode of The Legal Lens podcast, host Angela Reddock‑Wright sits down with Professor Jared Clemons, a political scientist whose work examines how race, power, and education intersect in American life. Jared and Angela talk about the pressures students face—from debt to anxiety about the future—and why some are turning toward entrepreneurship and even engineering and technology with an ey...

In this powerful return to The Legal Lens Show, host Angela Reddock-Wright welcomes returning guest Sunny Slaughter—litigation expert, national legal commentator on Court TV, CNN, and Law & Crime, and an authority on law enforcement and intimate partner violence—to challenge the way we talk about “crimes of passion” and domestic violence murder. Speaking on a breaking‑news day when a Virginia jury...

In this episode of The Legal Lens Show, host Angela Reddock-Wright talks with Professor Hasan Kwame Jeffries, a civil rights and history professor at The Ohio State University, author of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt, editor of Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement, and host of the Teaching Hard History podcast, about how we remember and misrem...

In this episode of The Legal Lens Show, host Angela Reddock-Wright sits down with Deepak Gupta, one of the nation’s leading Supreme Court and appellate lawyers and founding principal of the Washington D.C. based public-interest firm Gupta Wessler LLP, to discuss how civil rights, civil liberties, and consumer protection are shaped at the highest court levels. Gupta shares how inspiration from Thur...

In this episode, host Angela Reddock-Wright talks with Kendall Scudder, Chair of the Texas Democratic Party, about why Texas state politics and redistricting are central to the nation’s future—even for listeners far outside the Lone Star State. Scudder traces Texas’s history as a former Democratic stronghold that powered some of America’s biggest progressive accomplishments—from the New Deal and G...

In this New Year’s episode of The Legal Lens Show—kicking off 2026—host Angela Reddock-Wright welcomes back legendary trial lawyer Carl E. Douglas, founding partner of the Douglas/Hicks law firm and famed member of the O.J. Simpson “Dream Team.” Douglas reflects on his 45+ years as an attorney and  the importance of respecting the rule of law at a time when political and social norms are being “up...

In this episode of The Legal Lens Show, host Angela Reddock-Wright sits down with Attorney Kawan Lovelace, a New York–based civil rights lawyer whose path to the courthouse ran through work as a NYPD police officer, to detective and Bronx prosecutor before he left to challenge the systems he once served. A Queens native and former Olympic triple jumper at the 1996 Atlanta Games, Lovelace reflects...

In this episode, Angela Reddock-Wright sits down with Attorney Ashley Upkins, President of the National Bar Association and in-house counsel at clean-energy company Silicon Ranch in Nashville, Tennessee, to talk about leadership, justice, and finding common ground in a divided time. From her roots as a “born and raised” Nashville girl inspired by the attorney character Clair Huxtable on The Cosby...

In this compelling episode, Attorney Yasmin Cader—Deputy Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)—joins Angela Reddock-Wright to reveal what it takes to defend democracy, the First Amendment,  and civil rights under unprecedented pressure. Cader, a Howard University and Yale Law graduate, recounts her journey from federal public defender to leading national legal battles at the...

This episode of The Legal Lens Podcast  features Dr. Shakari Byerly, Managing Partner and Director of Polling and Research at Evitarus, California’s only Black-owned and led polling firm. Dr. Byerly joins Angela Reddock-Wright to analyze the passage and significance of California Proposition 50—a high-stakes redistricting measure that passed by landslide, restructuring congressional districts in r...