Arkansas Times: Justyce Yuille meets her destiny

“We can thank God and Grandma Hazel for 23-year-old Justyce Yuille’s career plans. The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville graduate ships out to law school this fall with a mission to secure equity, understanding and justice in her native Arkansas. One of 10 recipients of this year’s NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund’s Marshall-Motley scholarships, Yuille earned a full law school scholarship in exchange for her commitment to devoting the first eight years of her career to practicing civil rights law in service to Black communities in the South. The granddaughter of 97-year-old Hazel Bogard Fingers, a past president of the Little Rock NAACP chapter, Yuille braids her inherited passion for civil rights with a deep faith.”

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