✨ New post about former Kimbrough Scholar and CRRJ researcher, Helen Bekele, now @nusl.bsky.social '28, and her journey through justice crrj.org/2025/10/kimb...

We were honored to attend this year’s Race & Law Center Network convening, generously hosted by UCLA's School of Law. Thank you for an enriching experience and congratulations on 25 years of Critical Race Studies.

🎙️ LISTEN: Latest season of @npr.org and @wkno.bsky.social's Civil Wrongs podcast out now, centers on case of Phillip Hatley, WWI veteran killed by Memphis police officers in 1939. @nusl.bsky.social's CRRJ has worked with Hatley's descendants for many years. Read more: crrj.org/efforts/new-...

#tdih 1955: 16-yr-old John Earl Reese was killed 💔 in Mayflower, Texas when white men fired shots into a café in an effort to stop implementation of Brown v. Board through terrorism. Read more ⬇️and see a short film from @crrj.bsky.social #TeachTruth www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/jo...

Identifying the names of victims is difficult when cataloging incidents of racial violence in the Jim Crow South. Learn how the staff at the @crrj.bsky.social Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive work to make researching and honoring these victims easier: librarynews.northeastern.edu?p=276909

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

✨ 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. crrj.org/2025/10/pre-...

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-...

👋 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: crrj.org/2025/09/spot...

"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." More: crrj.org/efforts/emme...

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.

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...

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...

“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 crrj.org/efforts/gath...

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 news.northeastern.edu/2025/07/29/e...

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. news.northeastern.edu/2025/07/31/j... @nusl.bsky.social @nuglobalnews.bsky.social

🎉 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.

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 Texas Man’s Fight to Move a Lynching Marker Sparks New Battle for Truth capitalbnews.org/texas-lynchi...

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. Read more: crrj.org/efforts/the-...

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

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: bit.ly/44LHpzT

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

📣 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.

📆 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.

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...

📆 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...

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... @nusl.bsky.social

📢 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. bit.ly/CRRJ_launche...

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

🎟️ Online tickets are still available for the launch of CRRJ's Federal Reparations for Jim Crow Killings Project, Feb. 27. www.eventbrite.com/e/towards-ju...

📑 CRRJ delves into the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, to reveal long history of racial discrimination, denial of Black civil rights, and use of excessive force within Memphis Police Department, traced far earlier than the death of Tyre Nichols 👇 crrj.org/2025/02/doj-...

"Jordan Neely’s tragic death at the hands of a private citizen is a familiar story, one told many times in the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive in the cases of racially-motivated homicide on public conveyances in the Jim Crow South." 📖 Analysis from CRRJ's archive: bit.ly/Jordan_Neely...

📖 READ: Case recently released by NARA, and initially investigated by CRRJ historian Dr. Jay Driskell, exposes the historical continuum that exists between the treatment of African Americans in public spaces in the twentieth century, and Christian Cooper’s experience in 2020. bit.ly/BlackinPubli...

📅 Join the Center for Law, Equity and Race, March 26, for the Hope Lewis Visiting Lecture with Gay McDougall, Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, Fordham University School of Law. Musical tribute by Danielle Ponder '11. bit.ly/HopeLewisLec...

🔖 Latest post from the Archive: The Dangers of Being Black in Public 2020 Central Park Birdwatcher incident part of historical continuum, new case investigated by CRRJ and released by Cold Case Review Board shows: crrj.org/2025/01/the-...

🗞 In case you missed it: Northeastern University School of Law student researchers spend fall 2024 collecting evidence in cases of historical racial violence, aiding in the geographic expansion of the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive to include crimes in Kentucky and Indiana. bit.ly/BNDA_Fall202...

📅 EVENT: “Reconstructed Blackness: Race, Identity and Belonging in the Life and Work of Pauli Murray.” Our colleagues are hosting Professor Lisa Crooms-Robinson, for a discussion about her research on Attorney Pauli Murray. This event will be in-person and online. Register: bit.ly/Reconstructe...

🔊 CRRJ is hiring 💼 Attorney for Elizabeth Zitrin Justice Fellow position, apply here: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

Welcome to CRRJ on @bsky.app! 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/