Attorney Jasmine A. Robinson Talks Hampton, ATL Black Pride Weekend

That mission has remained on the coronary heart of Atlanta Black Pleasure Weekend since its inception, driving the gatherings and celebrations that proceed to uplift the neighborhood 12 months after 12 months.

“Now we have totally different wants,” Atlanta Black Pleasure Founder Melissa Scott beforehand instructed BOSSIP about Atlanta Black Pleasure Weekend’s Labor Day weekend celebrations. “Now we have totally different monetary wants, psychological well being wants, instructional wants, and in all transparency, we utterly vibe in another way. It’s simply been about creating our tribe and making a secure area for folks of colour to do the issues that we get pleasure from doing and the fellowship that we get pleasure from.”

“What makes Atlanta actually particular as effectively is that that is actually the most important Black Pleasure celebration in the US,” she added.

Throughout the dinner, the “5 Star Legal professional” might be acknowledged for her transformation work and her pivotal function in safeguarding Atlanta Black Pleasure’s trademark. Her journey to this second, she instructed BOSSIP, started removed from town’s authorized and social scenes; on the sun-drenched, waterside campus of Hampton College.

“I noticed Black people I had by no means seen earlier than,” mentioned the Richmond, Virginia, native, describing a social stratum that felt each aspirational and deeply rooted. As a substitute of feeling intimidated, she felt galvanized, finally turning into a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Gamma Theta chapter.

The values instilled in her at Hampton: objective, professionalism, and neighborhood, have turn into the bedrock of her authorized profession. After regulation college, she established a solo observe in Atlanta, the place she has leveraged her authorized experience to serve a neighborhood near her coronary heart: the Black LGBTQ+ neighborhood.

Her most vital skilled achievement thus far, she says, was her work to save lots of the Atlanta Black Pleasure Weekend trademark. When the group was challenged in court docket, Ms. Robinson, a solo practitioner, efficiently took on a big regulation agency. The victory not solely secured the group’s authorized standing but in addition established Ms. Robinson as its common counsel.

For her, this work is about extra than simply authorized victories. It’s about preserving a significant neighborhood area. She argues that Black Pleasure occasions are important as a result of they handle the distinctive wants and challenges of Black LGBTQ+ those who mainstream Pleasure occasions usually don’t.

“The struggles and the issues and our objectives and our views are totally different,” Robinson defined to BOSSIP.

In her observe, Ms. Robinson has made her id knowledgeable asset, creating an area the place purchasers really feel snug and understood.

“You don’t at all times hear about legal professionals so assured of their sexuality,” she famous.

She believes that by being authentically herself, she will be able to higher serve a neighborhood she deeply cares about. This philosophy, she says, has guided her whole journey.

“Provision occurs when you find yourself actually chasing your objective,” she instructed BOSSIP.

This weekend, as Atlanta Black Pleasure celebrates its wealthy tradition and neighborhood with a packed schedule of occasions, together with the Pure Warmth Neighborhood Pageant and advocacy panels, Robinson’s work might be highlighted, demonstrating how her journey from the “Residence by the Sea” led to her turning into a beacon of excellence in ATL.

Atlanta Black Pleasure Weekend 2025 Schedule

Atlanta Black Pleasure Weekend is jampacked with occasions held at venues throughout Midtown Atlanta, with the Starling Hilton Midtown serving because the official host lodge. Organizers observe that they’re open to all gender identities.

A portion of the proceeds will help homeless LGBTQIA+ youth and people affected by HIV/AIDS by The Imaginative and prescient Neighborhood Basis.