Drinking While Black? Two Lawyers Kicked Out Of Fresno Bar

FEATURING ABRE’ CONNER – Despite pronunciations that we live in a post-racial society, African Americans in particular know that even when doing the most mundane tasks they are likely to be racially profiled while in public.

Black folk are followed by store clerks while shopping, or even arrested for no reason. Last year a black women’s book club was kicked off a Napa wine train for apparently laughing too loud. And, most recently, two black women were kicked out of a karaoke bar in Fresno, California for reasons that seem to point to only one thing: the fact that they were the only two black women there.

What the bar staff did not know is that the two women were imminently aware more so than the average person of what their rights are – they were attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. One of those women is Abre’ Conner.

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Abre’ Conner, lawyer for ACLU Northern California, was kicked out of the Brig bar in Fresno with her friend and fellow lawyer, Novella Coleman.