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…
The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project launched Version 2 of the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive. Here are six cases, now publicly available in the Archive, the first time that some of these accounts have ever been shared.
Raymond Wilkes first participated in the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic at Southern University a decade ago. Now he’s back at Northeastern University as CRRJ’s Senior Staff Attorney.
Raymond Wilkes first participated in the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic at Southern University a decade ago. Now he’s back at Northeastern University as CRRJ’s Senior Staff Attorney.
Alex Stein ’19, recently joined CRRJ as Staff Attorney and Program Director. Here he shares his journey with the project, researching cases of homicidal racial violence, and the legacy of police violence in many communities.
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 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.
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…
Within The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, there are several cases that will forever be linked, sharing a common perpetrator or group of perpetrators.
A complete history of anti-Black violence in the U.S. requires we make known those who believed they could act with impunity.
Criminal justice reform, community advocacy, reparations legislation: Malcolm Clarke’s vision for his legal career has expanded in unexpected directions following his tenure as an Elizabeth Zitrin Justice Fellow at Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights…
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…
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…
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…
PROFESSOR MARGARET BURNHAM, CRRJ DIRECTOR. PHOTO BY Mark OSTOW, 2023. Who we are CRRJ sponsors dynamic interdisciplinary research, fosters new pedagogies, and supports remedial practice on the national and community level. Launched in…
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),…