Her Honor Ages 13-17 the name her parents didn’t

the name her parents didn’t give her at birth: Yasmeen

Award-winning poet and playwright Idris Goodwin interrogates and remixes our cultural past in order to make sense of our present and potential futures

a defiant Joe Louis

and depression

This journey is one that we must take together

Her Honor Ages 13-17 the name her parents didn’tThis eye opening memoir from Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell, now retired, combines her fascinating personal story with a necessary primer on the complex, increasingly troubled, American judicial system. Few of us know anything about the judges who wield extraordinary authority over our lives and communities. Why are some judges appointed but others elected? Did you know there are no qualifications at all to serve on the Supreme Court? Or that most law