When Lena Bryan-Henderson was growing up in Wilkinsburg in the 1970s, her family dinner conversations frequently revolved around civil rights. “It was table talk every evening almost — about the prejudices and the injustices that people who look like me had to endure,” she said. Then, when she was about
Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato on Monday appointed Lena Bryan-Henderson as the county’s chief public defender. Bryan-Henderson, who joined the public defender’s office in 1991, starts immediately. Innamorato also announced Rosalyn Guy-McCorkle as her choice for county solicitor, but she requires approval by county council. She will serve in an
"I was stunned by it. But then I was stunned by the fear that I had and the retribution that I would face because of what I said, that is obvious to anybody that is living in America today," Raiford said in the Only On 4 interview.
Five days after well-known Black attorney Milton Raiford spoke out against racism in the criminal justice system, Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. emailed all of his deputy prosecutors forbidding them from offering any plea deals to Raiford or his clients. “On May 13, we experienced another issue