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 We sponsor dynamic interdisciplinary research, foster new pedagogies, and support 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),…
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.
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.
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