Listed amongst the Most Influential People of 2021 by TIME100, Ebony Magazine’s Power 100 Most Influential African Americans, The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Lawyers, and the 2014 NNPA Newsmaker of the Year, civil rights and personal injury Attorney Ben Crump is referred to as “Black America’s Attorney General.” Benjamin Crump has established himself as one of the nation’s foremost lawyers and advocates for social justice, winning a number of record settlements and verdicts for victims and families that have faced injustice. He has worked on some of the most high-profile cases in the U.S., representing the families of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tyre Nichols, and Henrietta Lacks in a landmark reparations case. Crump also represented the residents of Flint, Michigan, who were affected by the poisoned water of the Flint River, achieving a landmark settlement of $626 million. In 2022, Crump was retained by Randy Cox whose police brutality case reached a record- breaking settlement of $45 million a year later. In the historic case of Tamara Lanier versus Harvard, Crump’s passionate advocacy before the Massachusetts Supreme Court led to them ruling in favor of a Black woman who sued Harvard for the possession of photographs of her enslaved ancestors, which are estimated to be valued at $100 million. Crump currently represents the family of Malcolm X who filed a landmark lawsuit against the federal government and the NYPD for the conspiracy surrounding Malcolm X’s assassination. Crump’s tireless advocacy has led to legislation preventing excessive force and developing implicit bias training and policies. His book, published in October 2019, Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People, reflects on the landmark cases he has battled, and how discrimination in the courthouse devastates real families and communities. During the consequential year after George Floyd was murdered, Netflix documentary film crews chronicled Crump’s work in the award-winning documentary, “Civil.” Attorney Crump became the first practicing Black attorney to have a law school named after him when St. Thomas University renamed their law school the Benjamin L. Crump College of Law in 2023. He is the founder and principal owner of Ben Crump Law.