Few journals in the social sciences have published as much over the past twenty years on the reality of racial, cultural, and social inequality in law and practice as the Journal of Black Studies. In this special issue edited in the 50^th year of the journal we have initiated a series related to the evolution of human relations that considers where we have been and what we need to arrive at the place where we should be. In this issue we look at the presence of violence against African descended people, the mediations of people, laws, and processes intervening in the nature of our interactions in order to establish a more humane future. This issue should allow teachers, scholars and students to re-evaluate and re-examine their own set of assumptions, actions, and potentialities in regard to humanity.

在过去的20年中，很少有社会科学期刊像《黑人研究期刊》（Journal of Black Studies）上发表有关法律，实践中种族，文化和社会不平等现实的文章。在50编辑特刊^日本年度，我们发起了一系列与人类关系发展有关的系列，这些系列考虑了我们去过的地方以及到达我们应该去的地方所需要的东西。在本期中，我们着眼于针对非洲后裔的暴力行为，人与人之间的调解，法律和程序，它们介入了我们互动的本质，以建立更加人性化的未来。这个问题应该使教师，学者和学生能够重新评估和重新审查自己关于人类的假设，行动和潜力。