VernelliaRandallEditorOctober 2026 in Review

Vernellia R. Randall, November 2026 — Race, Racism and the Law, Racism.org (November 1, 2026).

In This Newsletter

  1. October Website Activity
  2. October Website Traffic
  3. Community and Followers
  4. October Essay
  5. Weekly Racial Justice Updates
  6. Scholarship Added in October
  7. Searchable Research Databases
  8. Help Sustain This Work

October on Racism.org

October’s additions examine how law shapes political voice, public safety, access to education and health care, and the ability to build and protect wealth. The materials connect these questions to the experiences of Black, Indigenous, Asian American, immigrant, and other communities confronting racial inequality.

Racism.org published 24 legal scholarship abstracts and excerpts, one essay, and four Weekly Racial Justice Updates during October. The scholarship addresses immigration, citizenship, racial bias in courts, school exclusion, Black student debt, environmental justice, clinical research, housing, and land rights.

The October 25–31 weekly update was published November 1 and is included below to complete the month’s coverage. It is additional to the four updates published during October.

These materials are resources for action. Use them to strengthen teaching, inform research, support community organizing, and challenge decisions that maintain racial inequality.

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October Website Traffic

According to Google Analytics, Racism.org had 53,000 users, 63,000 engaged sessions, and 45,000 page views during October 2026.

Visitors came from 177 countries and 7,509 cities. The leading countries were Singapore, the United States, China, Vietnam, and Brazil. New York was the leading U.S. city, and Singapore was the leading city internationally.

Thank you for reading and sharing Racism.org. You help bring scholarship on race, racism, and the law to a worldwide audience.

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Racism.org Community and Followers

Our monthly update list and social-media pages connect readers with scholarship and analysis they can use in classrooms, research, community organizing, advocacy, and public debate.

Mailing List or PlatformSubscribers or Followers
Racism.org Monthly Update List 4,914
Facebook Pages 17,562
LinkedIn 2,901
Substack 1,650

There is overlap across these platforms, so the counts do not represent different people.

We are also on Bluesky. Please follow, share articles, and invite others committed to eliminating racism to join the conversation.

We are no longer posting to Quora. Quora banned us for alleged spamming. I dispute that charge, which arose only after I began posting about Trump and racial justice. We do not post to X (Twitter).

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October Essay by Professor Randall

Making Death a Spectacle: Execution, Racial Terror, and the Power of the State

I examine the relationship between execution, public spectacle, and white racial power. The essay considers the history of lynching and capital punishment, the limits of constitutional reform, and the danger of turning government killing into public entertainment. I argue for confronting racially unequal punishment, supporting people harmed by violence, and ending the government’s power to kill.

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Weekly Racial Justice Updates

The weekly updates connect legal and political developments to racial power and their consequences for communities. They draw on mainstream and legal sources, primary materials, and reporting from racial and ethnic community media. Community reporting is essential to understanding injuries and resistance that national coverage often overlooks.

Completing October’s coverage: Weekly Racial Justice Update: October 25–31, 2026 (published November 1).

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Scholarship Added in October

These 24 abstracts and excerpts are listed alphabetically by title. Their Racism.org pages display October 2026 publication dates; the original journals may have published them earlier.

ArticleAuthorCategory
Analyzing the Benefits of Artificial Intelligence to Racially Inclusive Democracy Spencer Overton Protest, Protection and Politics
Black Beyond Borders: An Analysis of the 1996 Immigration Laws and the Invisibility of Black Immigrants Annaelle Clara Lafontant Migration and Immigration
Blood, Soil, and Race: The Perils of Shredding the Fourteenth Amendment Evelyn Marcelina Rangel-Medina and Hilary A. Symes 14th Amendment
Broken Lands and Trusts: The Omnipresence of the Natives’ Land Act of 1913 and the Persistence of Its Inequity (South Africa) Emily Venkatesan South Africa
Climate Resilience as Reparations Danielle Stokes Environmental Racism / Climate Change
Contagious Discrimination: Why Race-Blind Justice in Courtrooms Is Not Enough Yijia Lu and Murat C. Mungan Legal System and Racism
Diversity Regulations for Clinical Trials & the Underrepresentation of Native American Women Alka Meresh Health Care, Generally
Equitable Market Value: How the Government Cannot Afford the Loss of Black Wealth, Culture, and Joy When Calculating Just Compensation for Eminent Domain Proceedings Antonia Izuogu Property, Housing and Land
Fresh Start or False Promise? Addressing Black Student Loan Debt Through Bankruptcy Adji Ostin Wealth and Economic Issues
From the Ashes of This Destruction: A Conversation on Black Study and the Possibility of the Black University Andrew J. Douglas and Jared A. Loggins Education: Higher Education
HMDA Demographics: Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in the Mortgage Application and Approval Process Paul Arrowood Property, Housing and Land
Interrupting Classroom “Banishment”: How Re-Imagining Our Amendments Can Disrupt the School-to-Prison Pipeline Ananda Deacon School-to-Prison Pipeline
Is Multiracial Democracy Constitutional? Some Reflections from the Eye of the Storm Wilfred U. Codrington III Protest, Protection and Politics
Microaggressions Against Asian-Americans in Hollywood ... and Law Schools Tung Yin Media, Entertainment and Sports
Mullin v. Doe: Whitewashing Anti-Blackness Russell K. Robinson Migration and Immigration
Not Just a Castle in the Sky: A Legal Remedy for Race-Based Takings in Virginia Michaela R. Hill Property, Housing and Land
Race and Ethnicity in the Courtroom Workgroup: Can Diversifying the Court Solve Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Case Outcomes? Rachel Bowman, Ojmarrh Mitchell, Daniela Oramas Mora, and Lyndsay Boggess Legal System and Racism
Regulated Victimization: The Rise of Human Trafficking Within the Oregon Massage Industry Hannah Beaulieu Gender
Right Wing ‘Environmentalism’ and Asian America Jonathan Choi Environmental Racism / Climate Change
Rule 11’s Unfulfilled Promise to Protect Noncitizen Defendants Allison McCarthy Migration and Immigration
Sentencing Immigrants Eric S. Fish Jury and Sentencing
The Odyssey of Third Country Removal Matthew Boaz Migration and Immigration
The Thin Red Line Isaac Manchego Property, Housing and Land
Who Owns Civil Rights History? Robert S. Chang and H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr. Affirmative Action

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Searchable Research Databases

Racism.org’s research databases organize legal scholarship and related materials by community and subject. The directory below links to 41 databases for teaching, research, advocacy, and deeper reading.

Racial and Ethnic Communities

Subject Matter

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Vernellia R. Randall
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 Vernellia R. Randall, Professor Emerita of Law, University of Dayton School of Law.  This article is the sole intellectual and scholarly work of Vernellia Randall. ChatGPT was used only as a drafting aid comparable to a research or editing assistant. All concepts, analysis, legal reasoning, interpretations, and conclusions are entirely the author’s own, and the author assumes full responsibility for the content.