CRRJ in the News

Recent Press

• “Lynching Memorial Forces Us to Confront Our Racist Past — And Present,” WBUR's Cognoscenti (May 2, 2018).
• “Descendant Of Slave Owner: Lynching Memorial Brings To Light A 'Buried Narrative',” KERA News (April 28, 2018).
• “Harvey Church Honors Black Man Killed by Police in Gretna 70 Years Ago,” The Times-Picayune (April 28, 2018). 
• “Gretna Family One Step Closer to Justice Decades After Police Killing of Black Man,” (April 27, 2018).
• “'He Left a Great Legacy:' Ceremony to Commemorate Killing of Black Man in Gretna 70 Years Ago,”The New Orleans Advocat (April 27, 2018).
• “Engaging Imaginations, Making History,”Carnegie Reporter (April 26, 2018)
• "A Lynching's Long Shadow,"The New York Times (April 25, 2018)
• “Great-Grandson of Lynching Victim Faces the Past: "This is American History," (CBS Evening News, April 10, 2018)

• “Confronting the Past: A Young Man Tries to Understand the Lynching of his Great-Grandfather,” Arizona Republic (April 4, 2018)
• “Don’t Go to Georgia, His Mom said. But He Had to Know Who Lynched His Great-Grandfather,” USA Today (April 4, 2018)
• “Your Turn: How My Great-Grandfather's Lynching Impacted My Views on Race,” Arizona Republic (April 4, 2018)
• "Ga. Chief’s Lynching Apology Draws Worldwide Attention,"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (March 17, 2018) 
• “Georgia Sheriff Acknowledges Law Enforcement’s Role in 1947 Lynching,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (March 14, 2018) 
• "Sessions Feigns Concern For Asian-Americans To Gut Affirmative Action," WBUR's Cognoscenti (August 4, 2017)
• "Documenting Lynching and its Influence: The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic at Northeastern University is Doing Just That," The Metropole (June 26, 2017)
• "Tuskegee Hosts Conference Remembering Those Fallen to Injustice,"  WSFA 12 News (June 15, 2017)
• "Symposium on Racial Violence History in State of Alabama,"The Tuskegee News (June 8, 2017)
• "Group Archiving Racially Motivated Murders,"The Oxford Eagle (May 30, 2017)
• "Northeastern Unveils Project Commemorating History of Lower Roxbury," The Daily Free Press (April 19, 2017)
• "Nearly 8 Decades Later, an Apology for a Lynching in Georgia,"The New York Times (January 26, 2017)
• "In a First, Georgia Police Chief to Apologize for 1940 Lynching,"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (January 26, 2017)
• "A Reality Check on Claims of Vintage 'Fake News',"The Washington Post (January 5, 2017)
• "Bringing Justice, and Closure, in Civil Rights Cold Case,"news@Northeastern (January 5, 2017)
• "Boston Law School Leads Project On Cold Cases Of Lynching," okayplayer.com (January 4, 2017)
• "Getting Away With Murder,"The Marshall Project (January 3, 2017)
• "Recent Graduate Shines Investigative Light on 75- Year- Old Civil Rights Cold Case,"news@Northeastern (September 23, 2016)
• "A Lynching Kept Out of Sight,"The Washington Post (September 2, 2016)
• "CRRJ Provides First Full Account of Notorious 1947 Georgia Jailhouse Killing," CRRJ Press Release (August 22, 2016)
• "Cambridge Rindge And Latin Students Seek Answers In 1940 Louisiana Lynching" WBUR News (June 3, 2016)
• "Burnham Selected for Prestigious Carnegie Fellows Program" (April 19, 2016)
• "Margaret Burnham Restores Justice in Violent Cold Cases,"Long Beach Press Telegram (February 26, 2016)
• "'Commemoration for a purpose,'"news@Northeastern, (November 7, 2015)
• CRRJ Featured on Higher Ground, WHDH, Channel 7, Boston (October 18, 2015)
• "60 Years Later, Echoes of Emmett Till’s Killing,"The New York Times (August 31, 2015)
• "The Cold Cases of the Jim Crow Era,"The New York Times (August 28, 2015)
• "3Qs: Law professor remembers civil rights icon," news@Northeastern (August 20, 2015)
• "Racial Violence and Restorative Justice,"Daily Kos (August 9, 2015)
• "What We Can Learn From Sandra Bland's Tragic End," WBUR's Cognoscenti (July 28, 2015)
• 'We Are All Hurt,' news@Northeastern (June 24, 2015)
• "Baltimore Wasn’t The First City To Burn, And It Won’t Be The Last," WBUR's Cognoscenti (May 1, 2015)
• Obama Walks a Fine Line on Baltimore Riots, RN Breakfast Radio (April 30, 2015)
• Black in Time: Generations Connect Seeking Justice, Miami Herald (April 23, 2015)
• Professor Margaret Burnham Comments on the Walter Scott Case,Al Jazeera English (April 9, 2015)
• 3 Questions: Melissa Nobles on Advancing Racial and Restorative Justice, MIT News (April 6, 2015)
• VT Law Student Investigates Racial Killings, Burlington Free Press (March 15, 2015)
• Truth and Reconciliation is Coming to America From the Grassroots,The Guardian (February 26, 2015)
• Law Student Limelight: Hannah Adams, Northeastern University,Lawdragon Campus (February 1, 2015)
• "Street Cars Center of Many Racially Motivated Killings," GPB Radio's On Second Thought (January 15, 2015)
• "Documenting Jim Crow Era Deaths," BYU Radio's Morning Show (January 14, 2015)
• "Alabama's Jim Crow Era Murders Under New Spotlight," AL.com (January 8, 2015)
• "The Goal: To Remember Each Jim Crow Killing, From The '30s On," NPR's Weekend Edition (January 3, 2015)
• "A trip back to Atlanta’s Streetcars in the Jim Crow Era,"The Atlanta-Journal Constitution (January 2, 2015)
• "Northeastern University students uncover forgotten killings from Jim Crow era,"The Boston Globe (December 21, 2014)
• "The New Great Dissenter: On Affirmative Action, Sotomayor Gets It Right," NPR's Cognoscenti (April 25, 2014)
• "A Nation-Creating Moment: Remembering The March On Washington,"  NPR's Cognoscenti (August 28, 2013)
• "The Justice System's Role In The Death Of Trayvon Martin," NPR's Cognoscenti (July 26, 2013)
• "Confronting Our Legacy Of Racial Violence (With A Little Help From The President)," NPR's Cognoscenti (January 21, 2013)
• "Illuminating the African-American Experience,"news@Northeastern (January 12, 2012)
• "Justice Follows Decades of Silence,"The Boston Globe (June 23, 2010)
• "Miss. Officials Agree To Settlement In '64 Slayings," NPR’s All Things Considered (June 21, 2010)
• Margaret Burnham and Janeen Blake discuss the Dee and Moore Case on The Callie Crossley Show
• CRRJ welcomes the families of Charles Moore and Henry Dee to Northeastern University School of Law
• "Town Honors Victim of Civil Rights-Era Violence" Longview News Journal (October 24, 2010)
• Margaret Burnham discusses CRRJ’s restorative justice efforts and the Reese case on Radio Boston, WBUR
• CRRJ’s Louis Allen case profiled on 60 Minutes
• CRRJ’s Isadore Banks case profiled on Anderson Cooper 360°