Our Black Lawyers: From Charles Hamilton Houston to Barack Obama and on…

Before there was Johnnie Cochran, there was Charles Hamilton Houston.

Below is a TBS video made in its 1991 Black History Month Series. In this video, Barack Obama, then the first black president of Harvard Law Review, renders homage to Charles Hamilton Houston another great black ancestor, a legal legend who made the way and shone the light for many of alive today. read more