Olayemi Olurin News & Updates

Small Doses: Olayemi Olurin On Fighting The Prison System

Lawyer and people’s advocate Olayemi Olurin discusses the ills of the American prison industrial c...

Oct 27, 2023 • NewsOne

Eric Adams Gets Grilled by Activist on ‘The Breakfast Club’: ‘You’ve Continued to Fearmonger'

Eric Adams ' appearance on The Breakfast Club turned heated when the New York City mayor was grilled...

Mar 30, 2024 • Complex

‘We want Rikers closed and no new jails in its place!’

Rikers Island jail complex stands under a blanket of snow on January 5, 2018, in the Bronx borough o...

Nov 15, 2021 • The Real News

Olayemi Olurin

Olayemi Olurin is a movement lawyer, political commentator, writer, and abolitionist thinker. Twitte...

Nov 15, 2022 • The Nation

Olayemi Olurin and the Diddy v. Cassie Lawsuit

Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay are joined by lawyer and political commentator Olayemi Olurin to discu...

Nov 20, 2023 • The Ringer

Olayemi Olurin discusses how police television shows can contribute to 'mass hysteria' on crime

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Olayemi Olurin, a public defen...

Dec 23, 2021 • Yahoo

Rising: October 10, 2022

Biden announces MASS weed pardons, VP Harris celebrates; Will they actually free ANYONE? Olayemi Olu...

Oct 10, 2022 • The Hill

Attorney Olayemi Olurin Drags NYC Mayor Eric Adams On Police Brutality

Things got heated between defense attorney and political commentator Olayemi Olurin and New York Cit...

Apr 03, 2024 • Black Enterprise

Why Adams’s Campaign Strategy Involves Burger King and Baptisms at Rikers

Mayor Eric Adams keeps finding eye-catching ways to seize the spotlight on the issue of public safet...

Apr 04, 2024 • The New York Times

Breakfast Club Drama! NYC Mayor Adams and ‘Woke’ Defense Lawyer Spar Over Portrayal of Murder of NYPD Officer | WATCH

*NYC Mayor Eric Adams criticized a defense lawyer labeled as “woke” by the NY Post for downplayi...

Mar 28, 2024 • EURweb

Rikers in turmoil after at least 12 deaths: 'That's a failure on the state'

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At least 12 people have died t...

Nov 06, 2021 • Yahoo