This 24-Year-Old Attorney Launched A Scholarship To Fund Black Law Students’ School Costs

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By Jasmine Browley ·Updated August 4, 2022

When Imani Maatuka graduated from college she already knew she was going to law school because her mother told her to. But it’s probably not for the reason you’d think.

“I come from a family of attorneys,” Maatuka shared. “So my mother, who is a litigator, was actually the first Black woman in Central Illinois to open her own law firm. So my

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