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The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) at Northeastern University School of Law is a mission-driven program of interdisciplinary teaching, research and policy analysis on race, history, and criminal justice.
Offering courses, fellowships, and an archive of cases, the program is the preeminent academic center for the study of historical redress in the US. Our original investigations, transformative pedagogies, and top-level scholarship facilitate local and national initiatives to uncover an accurate history of racial harms during the Jim Crow era and reconcile the ongoing damage.
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Is Rebel Ridge based on a true story?
Filmed on location in rural Louisiana, featuring a corrupt local police force and a racist sheriff (Don Johnson) viewers may wonder if the recently released thriller Rebel Ridge is based on a true…
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The Perfect Neighbor: The True Story Behind Stand Your Ground Laws and Centuries of Racialized Violence
The Netflix documentary The Perfect Neighbor opens with police bodycam footage racing through the dark streets of Ocala, Florida, toward a tragedy that has already occurred. By the time officers arrive, Ajike “AJ” Owens, a…
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Eleanor Rush
Eleanor Rush, age 18, was killed by prison guards in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1956, as she protested the condones of her incarceration. This March 2026, Women's History Month, we share Rush's story, following the release of federal records by the Cold Case Civil Rights Records Review Board last month, and the publication of an article in The Assembly featuring her tragic case.
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