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BLACK HISTORY MONTH MAKES ITS CASE WITH HISTORY-MAKING DETROIT JUDGE
This year’s Black History Month is being celebrated with a Speakers Magazine cover that features a phenomenal woman, Judge Leonia Lloyd. In the publication, she shares some of her triumphs and challenges of being Black in Detroit in the ’60s and eventually becoming an entertainment lawyer with her twin sister for several Motown stars.
Judge Leonia remembers the civil rights movement. She remembers being asked at work to change her hairstyle when sporting her fro. She remembers being racially profiled and followed in a store when shopping with her mother. It was these real-life experiences that shaped their steadfastness in pursuing justice. Lessons that were rooted and endeared her to public service.
