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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ)

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CRRJ sponsors dynamic interdisciplinary research, fosters new pedagogies, and supports remedial practice on the national and community level. Website: https://crrj.org Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive: https://crrjarchive.org

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · Jan 13

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Launched in 2007 by @nusl.bsky.social Professor Margaret Burnham, CRRJ is the premier academic program in the U.S. examining current racial inequities through the lens of history, investigating racially motivated violence and seeking reparative justice. crrj.org/about/

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Professor Margaret Burnham,Founder and Director Mission & HistoryWe sponsor dynamic interdisciplinary research, foster new pedagogies, and support remedial practice on the national and community lev...

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Northeastern University Library @northeasternlib.bsky.social · 14d

Misspellings, nicknames, and epithets make cataloging identities of racial violence victims especially difficult. Annie Ross of @crrj.bsky.social details the complicated and sensitive work of making these victims findable regardless of how they're identified: librarynews.northeastern.edu?p=276855

Newspaper clipping headlined "He's 'Texas Red'." It features a mugshot from the front and side of a Black man with a number plate. The caption identifies him a murder victim named both Levi George and "Texas Red."

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · 2d

✨ CRRJ Alumni Profile: Tayo Belle graduated from @nusl.bsky.social in 2010. She currently serves as Deputy Director of the School Justice Project in Washington, D.C. and sits on CRRJ’s advisory board. Read about her journey through the CRRJ Clinic.

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The Pre-Clinic Pioneer: Tayo Belle ’10 and her CRRJ Story | The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project

Tayo Belle '10 reflects on her transformative experience as one of the first students to work with Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project ...

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · 17d

Version 2 of CRRJ's Digital Archive - the most complete digital database of racially motivated killings in the Jim Crow South - introduces 290 new victims & more than 5,000 new documents.

Here are 6 recently discovered cases: crrj.org/2025/09/six-...

Six New Cases From Expanded Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, Victims’ Stories Public for First Time | The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project

The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project launched Version 2 of the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive. Here are six cases, now publicly available in the Archive, the first time that some of these ...

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · 27d

👋 Meet CRRJ's latest team member, Elizabeth Zitrin Justice Fellow, Meg Gould.

Hailing from Memphis, Tennessee, Gould expects to advance CRRJ’s Posthumous Exonerations project and is looking forward to teaching once again, joining CRRJ's Spring Clinic staff next year:

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Spotlight on: Meg Gould, Elizabeth Zitrin Justice Fellow | The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project

Raymond Wilkes first participated in the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic at Southern University a decade ago. Now he’s back at Northeastern University as CRRJ’s Senior Staff Attorney.

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · Aug 28

"The work of artists, activists, and scholars investigating the story of Emmett Till has expanded our understanding of not just the case, but the wide range of tactics that can be deployed to confront ongoing racial discrimination and violence in the United States."

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Emmett Till, Seventy Years Later | The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project

Emmett Till was lynched on August 28, 1955. This year marks the 70th anniversary of his killing. Margaret Burnham serves on The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, responsible for their relea...

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Northeastern University Library @northeasternlib.bsky.social · Aug 28

Northeastern University Library and @crrj.bsky.social hosted a meeting of more than 100 representatives of other racial violence archives to discuss an update of the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive and the development of a white paper aimed at creating a national digital archive.

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · Aug 25

This Thursday marks 70 years since Emmett Till’s lynching. More than 6,500 pages of case records were made public, many for the first time. CRRJ's Director @nusl.bsky.social Professor Margaret Burnham is a member of the Federal Board, responsible for the release: mississippitoday.org/2025/08/21/e...

Emmett Till lynching documents detail federal response - Mississippi Today

Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board released over 6,500 pages of federal records on Emmett Till’s Aug. 28, 1955, killing.

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · Aug 11

CRRJ joined citywide memorial in Memphis, TN, honoring lives taken by the MPD, cases dating from the Jim Crow era to the present. Our Research Associate, Lydia Beal, travelled to Memphis to support efforts to recover buried histories and call for accountability. Read more: crrj.org/efforts/crrj...

CRRJ Travels to Memphis for Memorial Honoring Lives Taken by Memphis Police Department | The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project

CRRJ joined a citywide memorial in Memphis honoring lives taken by the Memphis Police Department on June 21, 2025.

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · Aug 11

“A nation-wide digital archive will both inform today’s racial redress agenda and significantly expand our knowledge about these atrocities beyond lynching.” - Margaret Burnham, founder of CRRJ.

Read more about CRRJ's ambitious project with @nu-archives.bsky.social

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Gathering the Red Record: Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive Updates, National Anti-Black Violence Database Discussed | The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project

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 a...

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · Aug 5

CRRJ's former Project Archivist, @northeasternlib.bsky.social's Gina Nortonsmith, on digitizing the archive of Boston legend Elma Lewis, and expanding visibility and access for Black art and artists. Great read from @nuglobalnews.bsky.social

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Northeastern to digitize archive of Boston legend Elma Lewis' work, chronicling Black art and joy

Northeastern archivists plan to digitize several collections of Boston legend Elma Lewis’ work, chronicling Black art and joy.

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · Aug 1

CRRJ's Associate Director, Professor Rose Zoltek-Jick, on the Jeffrey Epstein files, the politicization of victim safety, and how the DOJ’s past failures undermine public trust in future prosecutions.

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Transparency vs. victim safety? Experts say it isn’t a case of either/or in the Jeffrey Epstein files

As pressure mounts over the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files, Northeastern legal experts warn that victim safety is being politicized.

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · Jul 24

Search the BNDA here: crrjarchive.org

Home | The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · Jul 24

🎉 NOW LIVE! Our Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive v2.0 is now available to search 5,000 new documents, 275 new incidents, across 14 newly added US states and cities.

A huge congratulations to all involved @nusl.bsky.social Northeastern University Library and partners across the country.

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · Jul 21

Case of Leonard McCowin, a 21-year-old Black veteran who was killed in 1947, first uncovered by CRRJ student, featured in Capital B News by @chriscarrega.bsky.social

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Texas Man’s Fight to Move a Lynching Marker Sparks New Battle for Truth

Seven decades after a white officer killed a Black WWII veteran, Shelby County eyes an NAACP chapter.

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · Jun 30

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.
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The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive presented at Digital Commonwealth’s annual conference | The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · Jun 30

Meet CRRJ's Program Director and Staff Attorney, Alex Stein ’19: crrj.org/2025/06/spot...

Spotlight on: Alex Stein, CRRJ Staff Attorney and Program Director | The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project

Alex Stein ’19, recently joined CRRJ as Staff Attorney and Program Director. Here he shares his journey with the project, researching cases of homicidal racial violence, and the legacy of police viole...

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · May 22

EVENT: June 11. Join our colleagues at @nusl.bsky.social Center for Law, Equity and Race for this hybrid discussion on preparing students to support organizational clients through community-centered, culturally responsive practice:
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Training for Trust: Preparing Students to Support Organizational Clients

This workshop explores how to prepare students across disciplines to engage with organizational clients in ways that are culturally appropriate, trauma-informed, and grounded in community-defined need...

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · May 5

🏆 CRRJ Director, Margaret Burnham, honored by The C.T. Vivian Foundation, during their 4th annual Kaleidoscope Awards for Literary Excellence, in Atlanta, Georgia.

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CRRJ Director Margaret Burnham Honored by The C.T. Vivian Foundation | The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project

Margaret Burnham's book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, honored at 4th annual Kaleidoscope Awards for Literary Excellence, in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · Apr 17

📣 STUDENTS: looking for a unique summer job and invaluable research experience? 💼

CRRJ to Host Summer 2025 Undergraduate Program: APPLY NOW! crrj.org/efforts/crrj...

Previous students from: Northeastern Law, Vassar College, Bates College, Temple University and the University of Chicago. +more.

Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · Mar 31

📆 Add this to your April plans 👇 bit.ly/Kenneth_Hart...

@nusl.bsky.social's Center for Law, Equity and Race will host Kenneth Hartman, award-winning writer and prison reform activist, sentenced to life without parole aged 19. He served more than 37 years in prison before his sentence was commuted.

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Northeastern Law @nusl.bsky.social · Mar 20

The Inaugural Hope Lewis Distinguished Lecture kicks off on March 25 with a musical tribute by award-winning R&B singer-songwriter Danielle Ponder ’11. Gay McDougall will deliver her keynote address, Human Rights and the UN System, on March 26. Register today at: law.northeastern.edu/academics/ce...

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · Mar 20

📆 EVENT ⚖️ APRIL 16
Our colleagues at the Center for Law, Equity & Race will host Kenneth Hartman, a prison reform activist who was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole at 19. He served more than 37 years in prison before his sentence was commuted.
Register: bit.ly/Kenneth_Hart...

Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · Mar 19

In Boston? Join our colleagues at Northeastern University School of Law's Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) for this lunch time session, April 9, on trauma-informed and culturally competent public interest advocacy.

REGISTER: lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/w5gc4...

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · Mar 17

📢 CRRJ officially launches Federal Reparations: Lynching and Racial Violence Project, to explore the ways in which the government can address harms associated with racial violence, some attributable to its failure to fulfill law enforcement responsibilities, 1885-1965.

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CRRJ Federal Reparations Project Launched at NU Mills Conference, in Oakland CA | The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project

Federal Reparations: Lynching and Racial Violence Project, unveiled by Civil Rights and Restorative Justice project team, at Black Reparations conference in Oakland, California.

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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) @crrj.bsky.social · Mar 5

Join @nusl.bsky.social's centers of excellence and MIRA: Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, Inc. for this years Immigration Day Action.

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