For 25 years, the Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal has been home to legal scholarship exploring the contemporary and historic challenges facing all racial and ethnic minorities.  2009 is a year of new beginnings, and we feel it is time for the journal's title to more accurately reflect the breadth of its subject matter. 

Thus, we adopt a new name: The Harvard Journal on Racial and Ethnic Justice.  It is with some hesitation that we make this change, lest we seem too eager to discard the title's connection to BLJ's first incarnation as the Black Law Students' Association newsletter.  The journal's special connection to BLSA remains, and this year's editorial board will pay homage to it by reminding its readers of the journal's history in the introductory pages of Volume 26.  We do, however, hope that our new title will put a permanent end to any confusion resulting from our punny name! 

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