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* A review of the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, a repository of material on anti-Black killings in the US in the mid-20th century, led by Margaret Burnham and Melissa Nobles, reviewed by Kimberly Forero-Arnías #ReviewsInDH reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/burnham-no…

This July 4, we remember Wilbert Robinson, who fought for the freedom of this nation in WWII, and was shot and killed by Sheriff George Freeman on this day in 1949, in East Feliciana Parish, LA. His crime? Not being sufficiently deferential to a white man: crrjarchive.org/incidents/658

Raymond Wilkes first participated in the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic at Southern University a decade ago. Now he’s back NortheasternLaw as CRRJ’s Senior Staff Attorney: crrj.org/2025/06/spotli…

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

🎉 NOW LIVE! Our Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive v2.0 is now available. Search 5,000 new documents, 275 new incidents, across 14 newly added US states and cities. Huge congratulations to all involved NortheasternLaw Northeastern University Library and partners across the country. crrjarchive.org

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/jef… NortheasternLaw Northeastern Global News

CRRJ's former Project ArchIvist, Gina Nortonsmith, on digitizing the archive of Boston legend Elma Lewis, and expanding visibility and access for Black art and artists. Northeastern Archives and Special Collections Great read from Northeastern Global News news.northeastern.edu/2025/07/29/elm…

“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 Northeastern Archives and Special Collections: bit.ly/BNDAV20

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

Northeastern University Library and Civil Rights and Restorative Justice 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.

70 years after Emmett Till's murder, Mississippi museum acquires gun used to kill him; on NPR. Learn more about the Jim Crow era with this 2023 @ancestorexperts talk and Margaret A. Burnham, author of “By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners”: bit.ly/4gvLGJI

👋 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 join CRRJ's Spring Clinic staff next year: crrj.org/2025/09/spotli…

Version 2 of CRRJ's Digital Archive - one of the most complete digital databases of racially motivated killings of Black people in the Jim Crow South - introduces 290 new victims and more than 5,000 new documents. Read six recently discovered cases: crrj.org/2025/09/six-ne…

This summer, students investigated a variety of issues, including the impact of Emmett Till’s 1955 murder in 1955 and the role of white womanhood in historical rape executions of Black men. Read more about their work: crrj.org/efforts/crrj-s…

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

✨ CRRJ Alumnus Profile: Tayo Belle graduated from NortheasternLaw 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 and beyond: crrj.org/2025/10/pre-cl…

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

🎙️ LISTEN: Season 6 of NPR and WKNO-FM | Public Radio for the Mid-South's "Civil Wrongs" podcast is out now. It centers on the case of Phillip Hatley, a WWI veteran killed by Memphis police officers in 1939. NortheasternLaw's CRRJ has worked with Hatley's descendants for many years. Read more 👇crrj.org/efforts/new-se…

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

✨ CRRJ in conversation with former Kimbrough Scholar and CRRJ researcher, now Northeastern University School of Law '28, and her journey through justice: crrj.org/2025/10/kimbro…