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Laura Coates flourished in the criminal justice system as a federal prosecutor.<\/p>\n
She achieved professional success and garnered accolades in a field where African American women like herself were woefully underrepresented.<\/p>\n
But the further she got into her career, the more and more she began to question her actions in arguing to put people behind bars.<\/p>\n
As a black woman, the looked at the sheer number of individuals of color that came into the courtroom, and that began to wear on her.<\/p>\n
Laura Coates looks back at her time as a prosecutor, and those internal struggles, in a new memoir “Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness”.<\/p>\n
She asks herself the difficult question of whether she was engaged in justice or whether she was guilty of “a complicity she did not intend.”<\/p>\n
Coates recently spoke to Ideastream Public Media’s Jenny Hamel about our justice system, and why she decided to write the book, and today we hear that conversation.<\/p>\n
But first up this hour, a conversation with Dr. Charles Modlin, Medical Director of Inclusion, Diversity & Equity at MetroHealth Medical Center.<\/p>\n
He also has a new book out, which is a guidebook of sorts for young people. He speaks to the lessons he\u2019s learned, and skills he\u2019s developed and how they can be utilized to put achieve success.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n