Henry Andrews and Issac Mayo, both World War II veterans, were shot and killed by police officers, in North Carolina, in 1947. The circumstances remain unclear, as descendants search for answers and fight to have their relatives’ stories remembered.
Federal Reparations: Lynching and Racial Violence Project, unveiled by Civil Rights and Restorative Justice project team, at Black Reparations conference in Oakland, California.
CRRJ Director, Margaret Burnham, lays out ten guiding principles for those engaged in addressing rascal terror and historical injustices.
The DOJ’s investigation found that “Memphis police officers regularly violate the rights of the people.” But the history of racial discrimination and the use of excessive force by MPD can be traced far earlier than the death of Tyre Nichols. It is the outcome of decades of impunity enjoyed by police who have ended Black lives without suffering any legal consequences.
Jordan Neely’s tragic death at the hands of a private citizen is a familiar story, one told many times in the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive in the cases of racially-motivated homicide on public conveyances in the Jim Crow South.
A case recently released by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act, and initially investigated by CRRJ’s historian Dr. Jay Driskell, exposes the historical continuum that exists between the treatment of African Americans in public spaces in the twentieth century, and Christian Cooper’s experience in 2020.
The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive fall 2024 cohort of undergraduate researchers showcased their semester-long investigations into historical, racially-motivated homicides, cases that are soon to be included in the archive.
The Madness, released on Netflix, November 28, 2024, is not based on a true story, although the death, danger and duplicity Daniels faces could have come from one of the many case files on Jim-Crow era violence contained in the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive.
The 1945 killing of Hattie DeBardelaben, first investigated by Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) more than a decade ago, is one of the cases in the first set of records…
The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project was joined this fall by Aimee Clesi, CRRJ visiting researcher and Rhodes Scholar (Class of 2022) at Balliol College, University of Oxford. Studying for her doctoral degree…
The life and brutal killing of Pfc. Booker T. Spicely, killed in North Carolina in 1944 and whose case was originally researched by CRRJ, is the focus of a new sold-out play, performed this fall in North Carolina.
Pvt. Booker T. Spicely, 34, was killed by Herman Lee Council in Durham County, North Carolina in 1944.
Sara Merlo, the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project’s Education Consultant, was interviewed for podcast The Teacher’s Forum about her work with CRRJ and the development of high school curricula centered on cases…
The 2020 presidential election triggered a wave of concerns and legislation regarding election integrity, voter suppression and the security of American democracy. Over the last four years, states including Florida, Texas, Georgia and…
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…
Rosalie Nevins-Alderfer ’15 was never interested in practicing law in the usual way. “When I entered the traditional legal curriculum, I realized pretty quickly that the typical, adversarial process didn’t align with my…
From public schools in North Carolina to refugee camps in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Sara Merlo, Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project’s recently appointed Education Consultant, has spent the last…
Ana Souffront ’23 studied political science at the Loyola University of Chicago, was a member of the Black cultural center, and engaged in campus protests, largely concerning on-campus police interactions with students. Her…