Read more on Duke Today. Federal judge Jerry W. Blackwell stood in the pulpit of Duke Chapel during a Sunday commemoration service for civil rights martyr Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and offered a ...

Judge Jerry Blackwell, a member of the prosecution team that won a murder conviction for the killing of George Floyd, will deliver the keynote talk at Duke University’s annual MLK Commemoration on ...

Judge Jerry Blackwell urged congregants not to give up hope amid America’s time of anxiety and fear, and instead shine their lights to overcome it. (Photo: screengrab from service livestream.) Judge ...