Throughout her childhood, in the small village of Port Jefferson, Long Island, Kyleen Burke ’18 loved to play soccer and basketball. As she grew older and travelled to neighboring schools for games, she…
Tucked away in Boston’s Financial District, Suffolk County Superior Court casting a long shadow across its engraved flagstones, Tyrone Britton Ayala joins 1,100 others in the Garden of Peace, a memorial for victims…
On April 3, 2024, CRRJ invited Martin Blatt, Northeastern Professor Emeritus and editor of the new collection, Violence and Public Memory, and volume contributor Maria John, Assistant Professor at UMass Boston, to discuss…
While my search through the NAACP papers at the Library of Congress revealed several “lost” cases, it forced a significant reckoning with the definition of lynching itself. Margaret Burnham and Melissa Nobles had…
When I joined the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive project in October of 2016, my initial mandate was to find all the lynching cases in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)…
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) held their annual Region III conference in Tulsa, OK, April 12-13. Gina Nortonsmith, Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive’s project archivist, and Catherine McGloin, CRRJ’s Communication’s Specialist, presented the…
When Tara Dunn ’17 graduated from the Air Force Academy and applied to law school she was one step closer to realizing a childhood dream. “My mom found the letter that I wrote…
More than eight decades after he was shot and killed by a white military police officer outside Fort Benning, Georgia, Private Albert King was honored in a full military service, March 24, 2024.…
A semester at the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic was, for Erin McCrady ’21 a detour on an otherwise direct route to a health policy career. “It was a really challenging experience,”…
In the heart of the Black Belt, Wilcox County, Alabama, in 1953, Della’s Place was the spot for a late-night meal and some jukebox music once the bars in town had closed. The…
In Austin, at SXSW this March, Margaret Burnham joined with the Mississippi journalist Jerry Mitchell and Attorney Jill Collen Jefferson, the director of the Mississippi civil rights group, Julian, to discuss challenges facing…
Mike Beaudet, an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter at WCVB-TV Boston, knows how to tell a story. That’s why, when CRRJ clinic student Tara Dunn (NUSL ’17) wanted to share her research on the…
Della McDuffie, 67, was a housewife and café owner, who was killed by police in Wilcox County, Alabama, in 1953. Wheelchair-bound and unable to flee, officers beat her to death.
To celebrate Black History Month, The Boston Globe published a series of profiles on the living civil rights leaders named on the 1965 Freedom Plaza surrounding the Embrace sculpture on Boston Common. One…
Robert Sanderman (NUSL ’14) reflects on his time in CRRJ’s Clinic, his investigation on the Malcolm Wright case, and on the many forms of restorative justice.
To mark Black History Month, CRRJ invited Professor Kellie Carter Jackson to present her new book, “We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance,” due to be published in June 2024.
On May 8, 1954, Russell Charley’s three eldest sons — John, 16, Russell, 14, and Willie Lee, 12 — found their father’s castrated body hanging from a tree not far from their family…
It was announced on January 24, 2024, that the City of Boston’s Task Force on Reparations has selected a Northeastern University School of Law team, led by CRRJ Director Margaret Burnham, to research…