Professor Margaret Burnham, CRRJ Director, delivered the keynote address at North Carolina Central University (NCCU) School of Law’s Private Booker T. Spicely Symposium on Friday, September 22, 2023. On July 8, 1944, Spicely was…
This correspondence with Thurgood Marshall, civil-rights attorney, head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s (NAACP) Legal Defense Fund and Supreme Court justice, housed in the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, reveals Marshall’s integrated approach to advocacy.
Hollis Watkins, CRRJ advisor, voting rights activist and key figure in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, passed away on September 20, 2023, aged 82.
Kris Manjapra, one of four Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) Faculty Fellows, has been shortlisted for the 2023 British Academy Book Award for his latest title, Black Ghost of Empire: The Long…
The Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR), welcomes four new Faculty Fellows. Zinaida Miller, Caleb Gayle, Adam Omar Hosein and Kris Manjapra will participate in the 2023-2024 fellowship. Gayle, Hosein and Manjapra will complete projects that will directly help to inform CRRJ’s reparative justice programs.
Hosea “Shant” Carter, who was lynched in Marion County, Mississippi on May 2, 1948. Photo courtesy of The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive. On December 17, 1951, a national civil rights organization accused the United…
Charlotte M. Nelson poses for a portrait by City Hall on July 30, 2018. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University Ms. Charlotte Mathews-Nelson, program coordinator for the Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR),…
The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project’s director, Professor Margaret Burnham, will receive the award, which recognizes her racial justice work, and its power to enhance civic life in the commonwealth through a deep appreciation of the humanities.
William White, a Black father of five, was killed in 1948 in St. Louis, MO. A Northeastern Law student recently researched his death at the hands of two white men, for the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project’s spring clinic.
During the summer of 2023, CRRJ’s work was supported by three passionate and highly-motivated interns. Sydney Wideman, a rising third year student at Pennsylvania State University, first heard about the project from her…
Jamelle Bouie, a columnist for The New York Times, wrote an opinion on Florida schools’ history curricula and teachings specifically on slavery. In it he made mention of CRRJ Director Professor Burnham and…
Charlotte Mathews-Nelson, program co-ordinator for Northeastern Law School’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR), was featured in an article published by the Boston Globe that looked back on 1982 NAACP Convention, the last time…
With the support of CRRJ, Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race hosted a panel discussion on July 6, to examine the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision that race-based admissions at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina were unlawful, essentially ending affirmative action in higher education.
CRRJ Director Margaret Burnham was interviewed by Jeanne Theoharis of the Boston Review, earlier this month.
The expansion of research into new jurisdictions provided an opportunity to begin comparing patterns and trends across regions.
Katie Sandson, program director of Racial Redress and Reparations Lab at CRRJ and Malcolm Clarke, CRRJ’s Elizabeth Zitrin Justice Fellow, participated in a virtual discussion, organized by The Black Reparations Project, an academic initiative at Mills College at Northeastern University, Feb. 23 and 24. They spoke on the issues of restorative justice, transitional justice and reparations.
CRRJ’s Burnham-Nobles digital Archive is featured in Northeastern Law’s Winter 2023 edition.
We sit down with Gina Nortonsmith, project archivist for the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, who is helping to collect stories of racial violence in the Jim Crow era so that they can be told accurately and in full.