In April 2023, the Illinois Prisoner Review Board will review a petition for posthumous clemency filed by attorneys with the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) and Northwestern School of Law’s Center…
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.