Margaret Burnham wins 2023 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
Margaret Burnham won the 2023 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism for By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners last week. Awarded by the Sidney Hillman Foundation, the Hillman Prize recognizes achievement in…
CRRJ Director Burnham wins LA Times Book Prize, Northeastern Excellence Award, and others
CRRJ Director Professor Margaret A. Burnham won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History for her book By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners on Friday, April 21 just one day…
Massachusetts Congregation aids in CRRJ’s cold case investigations
How members of a United Church of Christ congregation in Norwell, MA are helping to fill gaps in the history of Jim Crow racist violence. The killing of George Floyd in 2020 led…
Historical posthumous pardon hearing held in case of Joe James
In April 2023, the Illinois Prisoner Review Board reviewed a petition for posthumous clemency filed by attorneys with the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) and Northwestern School of Law’s Center on…
SULC Burnham Honors Cohort begin their investigations
On Feb. 17, the 2023 Burnham Honors Cohort met virtually to begin a five-year project, investigating cases of Jim Crow-era violence in Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi. “The Burnham Honors Cohort will be undertaking crucial…
CRRJ attorneys share restorative justice frameworks at Mills College reparations event
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.
Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive featured in winter edition of Northeastern Law
CRRJ’s Burnham-Nobles digital Archive is featured in Northeastern Law’s Winter 2023 edition.
CRRJ Director Announced as L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist
The Los Angeles Times has announced Professor Margaret Burnham, CRRJ founder and director, and her latest book By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, as a finalist in their 43rd annual Book…
CRRJ facilitates community conversation after killing of Tyre Nichols
On Feb. 2, CRRJ and colleagues at the Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) organized a community conversation on continuing police violence in Black communities. This followed last month’s brutal killing of…
NCCU scholarship fund honors case originally investigated by CRRJ
In 2014, CRRJ brought wide public attention to the case of Booker T. Spicely, a soldier killed by a bus driver in Durham, North Carolina. Recent developments in the case signify the importance of the research CRRJ conducted nine years ago.
Northeastern Law Center for Law, Equity and Race program co-ordinator, honored at MLK statue unveiling
Charlotte Matthews-Nelson, program co-ordinator for the Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR), was honored at the unveiling of the new statue of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, on Boston Common last week.
Albert King case featured in article about killing of Black WWII soldiers in 1945
An article published by The Washington Post, Jan. 15, highlights CRRJ’s efforts to reverse findings about the death of Pvt. Albert H. King’s in 1941.
Army Corrects the Record About a Black Soldier Killed by a White Sergeant in 1941
An article in today’s New York Times features a case that CRRJ uncovered. The case involved the killing of a soldier in Georgia in 1941. Professor Rose Zoltek-Jick worked with the family, and…
1,000 Racial Homicides Investigated in Unprecedented Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive
09.27.22 — Today, the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) at Northeastern University School of Law released the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, one of the most comprehensive digital archives of racial homicides collected to date.…
How the Jim Crow South Encouraged Racial Policing by Those with ‘No Legal Authority’
Professor Margaret Burnham talks to News@Northeastern about her new book, “By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners,” and her hope that it will “make visible this living history for the communities that…
Northeastern Journalists Receive New England Edward R. Murrow Award
“Zach Ben-Amots came to Northeastern’s journalism graduate program because he wanted to tell stories that would make a difference, stories that would reach and touch people. He had his sights set on working…
Professor Margaret Burnham Named Finalist for Prestigious Kirkus Prize
Professor Margaret Burnham’s new book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, has been named a finalist in the nonfiction category for the 2022 Kirkus Prize, one of the world’s richest literary awards!
Algiers remembers Edwin Williams, Sr.
On April 27, 1943, Edwin Clifford Williams, Sr. was killed when he dared to defend his family from an assault perpetrated by three white U.S. Navy Sailors in Algiers, Louisiana. Despite the brave…