When Sheridan Hill II began his legal education at Emory University School of Law in 2022, he joined a class of 236 incoming 1L, or first-year, students. But moments into orientation, the 23-year-old realized he held an unspoken, yet obvious title of being “the only one.”

Out of 25 Black law students, Hill sat as the only Black male in his 1L cohort last semester. 

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