Federal Failures Contributed to Racial Violence: 15 New Cases From Students’ Spring Clinic Grand Rounds
The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) at Northeastern University School of Law held its annual Spring Clinic Grand Rounds on April 15 and 16 of this year.
Reflecting on Five Decades of Civil Rights Practice: Flint Taylor
On March 30, 2026, esteemed civil rights attorney Flint Taylor of the Chicago-based People’s Law Office (PLO) and Tayleece Paul, an associate in the office, gave a talk, sponsored by CRRJ, to the law school community. Taylor, a founding partner of the PLO, took his audience on a journey across his remarkable career in civil rights litigation.
Gathering the Red Record: Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive Updates, National Anti-Black Violence Database Discussed
CRRJ hosted a first-of-its-kind, two-day conference, July 24-25, at Northeastern University’s Snell Library, to unveil updates to the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, and discuss pathways to creating an interoperable archive of anti-Black violence in partnership with similar archival and historical projects from across the U.S.
CRRJ Travels to Memphis for Memorial Honoring Lives Taken by Memphis Police Department
CRRJ joined a citywide memorial in Memphis honoring lives taken by the Memphis Police Department on June 21, 2025.
The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive presented at Digital Commonwealth’s annual conference
On April 29, 2025, Lydia Beal, CRRJ’s Research Associate, and Joy Zanghi, CRRJ’s Project Archivist, presented the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive (BNDA) at Digital Commonwealth’s 19th Annual Conference. Their presentation spoke to the title…
CRRJ Director Gives Keynote at Inaugural Legacies of Lynching Gathering
Professor Margaret Burnham, director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) gave the keynote address at “Legacies of Lynching: An Inaugural Gathering,” Saturday, March 1, 2025.
CRRJ Federal Reparations Project Launched at NU Mills Conference, in Oakland CA
Federal Reparations: Lynching and Racial Violence Project, unveiled by Civil Rights and Restorative Justice project team, at Black Reparations conference in Oakland, California.
Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive student researchers showcase investigations into historical cases of racial violence
The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive fall 2024 cohort of undergraduate researchers showcased their semester-long investigations into historical, racially-motivated homicides, cases that are soon to be included in the archive.
Prof. Burnham gives opening talk at Human Rights Home Lawyers’ Network symposium
CRRJ Director, Professor Margaret Burnham, was a keynote speaker at the Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyers’ Network annual symposium, held on June 20, 2024, at the Fordham University School of Law. The event — co-hosted by the Program…
CRRJ and CLEAR leaders discuss reparations at Martha’s Vineyard event
Professor Margaret Burnham, CRRJ director and faculty co-director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) was the featured speaker at an event hosted in Martha’s Vineyard on July 30 to…
CRRJ and Southern University celebrate a decade in partnership
The decade-long partnership between Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) and the Southern University Law Center’s Louis A. Berry institute for Civil Rights & Justice (SULC) was celebrated at the school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Congratulations to CRRJ’s Class of 2024
We wish to extend a warm and well-deserved congratulations to all of the graduating students who participated in CRRJ’s Spring Clinic 2023-2024. Their work has been central to CRRJ’s accomplishments over the last…
15 new cases presented at students’ Spring Clinic Grand Rounds
The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) at Northeastern University School of Law, held their annual Spring Clinic Grand Rounds on April 23, 24 and 25, 2024. These afternoon sessions, held in Dockser Hall…
“Violence and Public Memory” discussion hosted by CRRJ
On April 3, 2024, CRRJ invited Martin Blatt, Northeastern Professor Emeritus and editor of the new collection, Violence and Public Memory, and volume contributor Maria John, Assistant Professor at UMass Boston, to discuss…
Pvt. Albert King receives full military service, 83 years after his murder
More than eight decades after he was shot and killed by a white military police officer outside Fort Benning, Georgia, Private Albert King was honored in a full military service, March 24, 2024.…
CRRJ Celebrates Black History Month by Centering Black Resistance
To mark Black History Month, CRRJ invited Professor Kellie Carter Jackson to present her new book, “We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance,” due to be published in June 2024.
Historical Marker unveiled commemorating 1944 CRRJ case, first in NC. to use “Jim Crow”
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…
CRRJ Attorney Presents at Southern Clinical Conference 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…