Professor Margaret Burnham on the Walter Scott Case
Dr. Margaret Burnham was interviewed on Al Jazeera English
VT law student investigates racial killings
Baxter Bell’s case is among thousands of similar racially motivated slayings in the South in the mid-20th century that have largely been lost to history — but which continue to reverberate across the…
Truth and reconciliation is coming to America from the grassroots
All over the US, we are witnessing the dawn of a truth and reconciliation movement. There is a rising chorus of voices that is helping us to collectively face an epidemic of racial…
BYU Radio: Racial Killings, Selma
In the coming week, Americans will commemorate the assassination for Martin Luther King Junior. His is the most well-known death of the Civil Rights era. Emmett Till and Medgar Evers are oft-mentioned, too.…
Alabama’s Jim Crow era murders under new spotlight
A number of grisly racially-motivated killings that occurred in Alabama during the Jim Crow era are getting a fresh look. CRRJ is examining the cases as part of a nationwide investigation into the…
The Goal: To Remember Each Jim Crow Killing, From The ’30s On
The state of race relations in the United States has captivated the country for months. But a group of Northeastern University law students is looking to the past to a sometimes forgotten, violent…
The Youngest American Executed Exonerated
In 2014, South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Carmen T. Mullins vacated the conviction and sentence of George Stinney Jr., a 14-year-old African American boy executed in 1944, only 80 days after having been…
When Cold Cases Stay Cold
Several years ago, the FBI began reopening cold cases from that era — 112 at last count — raising hopes among some for justice. In all but about 20, though, the families of…