Earlier this January, former CRRJ archivist Gina Nortonsmith wrote an article that was published by New England Archivist (NEA), which details her work on the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, including the processes used and…
Development of a Research Strategy In 2008, CRRJ begun unearthing little-known cases of lynching and other forms of homicidal racial violence. During these early days, working closely with Northeastern University School of Law professors,…
As the inaugural Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law (UK Law) celebrated its conclusion December 5 — following months of preparation and support from CRRJ attorneys and historians — staff and faculty now turn their attention to securing the program’s future in 2024.
In honor of this year’s Martin Luther King Day, Northeastern University hosted the annual “A Tribute to the Dream” event on Thursday, January 11, 2024, in which CRRJ’s esteemed colleague and program coordinator…
On December 1, 2023, a North Carolina State Highway Historical Marker was unveiled in honor of Pfc. Booker T. Spicely, the first such marker in North Carolina that makes mention of the term…
The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project shares the sad news that Northeastern Professor Ángel David Nieves, a faculty affiliate of CRRJ, passed away December 5, 2023. Professor Nieves is perhaps best known…
In November 2023, the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project’s archival team released a new map feature in the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive. Months in the making by CRRJ’s dedicated archivists, historians, designers and…
The summer of 1946 was filled with a heightened fear of violence and injustice for the Black residents of Minden, Webster Parish, Louisiana. Black veterans returning home at the end of World War…
Ada Goodly Lampkin understands the value of truth and the power of imagination. “There was a lot unsaid in my family,” said Goodly Lampkin, director of the Louis A. Berry Institute for Civil…
The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, a record collection and database documenting racially motivated violence targeting African Americans in the Jim Crow South, was recently established, thanks in part to GSE alumna Gina Nortonsmith’s expertise, guidance and leadership.
Dr. Deborah A. Jackson, Managing Director of the Center for Law, Equity and Race at Northeastern University School of Law, responds to guilty plea by ex-Memphis police officer, Desmond Mills Jr. in the case of Tyre Nichols, fatally injured by officers on January 7, 2023.
CRRJ Director Professor Margaret Burnham has won The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, for her latest book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners. She received the award at a ceremony in Washington D.C. hosted by the Zora Neale Hurston-Richard Wright Foundation, on October 26, 2023.
Professor Margaret Burnham has written an article for Arizona State University’s Zocalo Public Square, published October 25, 2023.
On October 21, CRRJ attorney and Zitrin Fellow, Olivia Strange presented at this year’s Southern Clinical Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Hosted by Georgia State University College of Law, the conference ran October 20-22…
The case of Pvt. Booker T. Spicely, murdered on July 8, 1944, after refusing to give up his seat on a bus in Durham, North Carolina, is to be taught to students K…
The history of racialized violence during the Jim Crow era is elevated and preserved in the letters housed in the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive.
This Indigenous Peoples Day, we remember Lincoln McGeisey and Palmer Sampson, and others still unnamed, even as we appreciate that the violent subjugation of Native communities has taken many forms.
CRRJ Director gave a talk to students and faculty at the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences on September 26, 2023. She read from her book “By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners.”