Professor Margaret Burnham, Founder of the School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, with Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison
CRRJ in the News
Recent Press
“The Healing Project: Finding Justice for Families of Victims of Injustice,” The Louisiana Weekly, (November 26, 2018).“Mobilian Honored With Street Dedication 70 Years After His Murder,” WSFA (August 18, 2018). “Recalling Their Names: Mobile Honors Victims of Jim Crow-Era Killings,” AL.com (August 18, 2018). “After Seven Decades, Alabama Honors Jim Crow-Era Victims,” Northeastern News (August 18, 2018). “Memorializing Racially-Motivated Deaths Beyond Lynchings,” The American Homefront Project (August 14, 2018). “A Black Family Confronts a 70-Year-Old Killing and a White Man’s Exoneration,” The Washington Post (August 11, 2018). “Mobile Street Name to Honor Jim Crow-Era Murder Victim,” Miami Herald (July 24, 2018). “Northeastern Program Uncovers the Stories Behind the Victims Of Lynching and Other Racial Violence in the Jim Crow Era,” WGBH's Greater Boston (May 2, 2018).
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“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)
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“ 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, 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°
Professor Margaret Burnham, Founder of the School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, with Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison