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

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

“We have now completely different wants,” Atlanta Black Delight Founder Melissa Scott beforehand informed BOSSIP about Atlanta Black Delight Weekend’s Labor Day weekend celebrations. “We have now completely different monetary wants, psychological well being wants, instructional wants, and in all transparency, we fully vibe in another way. It’s simply been about creating our tribe and making a protected house for individuals of shade to do the issues that we take pleasure in doing and the fellowship that we take pleasure in.”

“What makes Atlanta actually particular as properly is that that is actually the largest Black Delight celebration in the USA,” she added.

Throughout the dinner, the “5 Star Legal professional” can be acknowledged for her transformation work and her pivotal function in safeguarding Atlanta Black Delight’s trademark. Her journey to this second, she informed 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,” stated the Richmond, Virginia native, describing a social stratum that felt each aspirational and deeply rooted. As an alternative of feeling intimidated, she felt galvanized, finally changing into a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc, Gamma Theta chapter.

The values instilled in her at Hampton, goal, professionalism, and neighborhood, have change into the bedrock of her authorized profession. After regulation college, she established a solo follow 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 so far, she says, was her work to save lots of the Atlanta Black Delight Weekend trademark. When the group was challenged in courtroom, Ms. Robinson, a solo practitioner, efficiently took on a big regulation agency. The victory not solely secured the group’s authorized standing but additionally established Ms. Robinson as its normal counsel.

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

“The struggles and the issues and our targets and our views are completely different,” she defined to BOSSIP.

In her follow, Ms. Robinson has made her identification an expert asset, creating an area the place shoppers really feel snug and understood.

“You don’t all the time 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 complete journey.

“Provision occurs if you end up really chasing your goal,” she informed BOSSIP.

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

Atlanta Black Delight Weekend 2025 Schedule

Atlanta Black Delight 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 means of The Imaginative and prescient Group Basis.