Attorney Jenipher Jones elected to Board of Directors of the National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL)

On April 8, 2024, Jenipher Jones, civil movement and human rights attorney and Managing Partner at A People’s Legal Office/For the People, LLC., was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL).

NCBL is an American association, formed in 1968, to offer legal assistance to black civil rights activists.  Its mission is: "To protect human rights, to achieve self-determination of Africa and African Communities, and to work in coalition to assist in ending the oppression of all peoples."

Attorney Jenipher Jones

NCBL is an association of lawyers, scholars, judges, legal workers, law students, and legal activists - whose primary focus is on the welfare of the Black community.  

“We are the legal arm of the Movement for Black Liberation.”

Noted NCBL clients have included Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, the Attica Brothers, Geronimo Pratt, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Ben Chavis, and the Wilmington Ten. The organization lobbied against apartheid in South Africa.

NCBL expanded from African-American oppression to help other groups in countries like Northern Ireland, the Palestinian territories, Cuba, Nicaragua, Guyana, Grenada, and throughout Southern Africa.

NCBL seeks to utilize the vehicles of the law to advance the fight against racism and the inequities it produces.