FILE – Attorney Ben Crump speaks outside the Pasquotank County Public Safety building in Elizabeth City, N.C. in this April 26, 2021 file photo. The Benjamin L. Crump Center for Social Justice, housed at the St. Thomas University College of Law in Miami Gardens, Fla., will announce on Thursday, Dec. 2, the creation of a social justice center named after Ben Crump, the Black civil rights attorney who has gained national notoriety representing victims of police brutality and vigilante violence. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP, File) (Travis Long/AP)