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Recent Press

• “CLEAR Hosts Presentation by Dr. Godfrey Vincent, Author of Rebels at the Gates,” Northeastern Law News (November 29, 2023).
• “Rebels at the Gates,” Trinidad Express (November 17, 2023).
• “CLEAR Responds to Guilty Plea in Tyre Nichols Case,” CRRJ News Announcement (November 2, 2023).
• “CLEAR Faculty Fellow nominated for 2023 British Academy Book Prize,” CRRJ News Announcement (September 11, 2023).
• “Criminal Justice Reimagined,” Boston Bar Journal (September 1, 2023).
• “Racial Justice Law Centers Gather to Learn and Strategize at CLEAR Conference,” Northeastern Law News Announcement (June 2, 2023).
• “Rethinking Public Sate and the Role of Police,” Fireside (April 27, 2023).
• “Legislation Presented To Make Location of 1908 Springfield Race Riot a Monument,” The State Journal-Register (April 2, 2023).
• “A Forgotten History: A Dead White Man, a Raging Mob and a Black Teen Caught in the Middle. Lawyers Seek Posthumous Pardon for Man Whose Arrest Partially Prompted the 1908 Race Riots in Illinois,” Atlanta Black Star (April 2, 2023).
• “Posthumous Pardon Hearing To Be Held in Joe James Case,” Civil Rights and Restorative Project News Announcement (March 18 2023).
• “Northeastern Law Students Selected as Hinckley Allen Racial Justice Fellows,” Northeastern Law News Announcement (March 8, 2023).
• “How To Prevent What Happened to Tyre Nichols From Happening in the Future," Northeastern Global News (January 31, 2023).
• “Restoring Justice and Setting the Record Straight," Morgan Lewis (January 20, 2023).
• “Black WWII Soldiers Asked a White Woman for Doughnuts. They Were Shot," The Washington Post (January 15, 2023).
• “Lost, but Not Forgotten: The Story of Denna and Estella Strickland,” Atlanta Daily World (January 6, 2023).
• “Army Corrects the Record About a Black Soldier Killed by a White Sergeant in 1941,” The New York Times (December 10, 2022).
• “Northeastern Law Ranked No. 10 for Racial Justice,” Northeastern Law News Announcement (November 15, 2022).
• “Northeastern Professor’s New Novel Explores Civil Rights-Era Cold Case,” News@Northeastern (November 16, 2022).
• “The U.S. Thinks ‘It Can’t Happen Here.’ It Already Has,” The New York Times (October 18, 2022).
• Video: “Q&A with Margaret Burnham, "By Hands Now Known",” C-SPAN (October 15, 2022).
• “Noted Lawyer to Speak in Birmingham on Sunday about ‘Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners’,” Birmingham Times (October 15, 2022).
• Video: “History is Lunch: Margaret A. Burnham, "By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners",” History is Lunch Event Hosted by the Mississippi Department of Archives & History (October 12, 2022).
• “The Most Consequential Project We Have.’ New Archive Gives Voice to Forgotten Victims of Lynching,” News@Northeastern (October 7, 2022).
• “Briefly Noted: By Hands Now Known,” The New Yorker (October 3, 2022).
• “Law Professor Unearths Cases of Racial Violence from the Jim Crow Era,” NPR’s “Fresh Air” (September 27, 2022).
• “1,000 Racial Homicides Investigated in Unprecedented Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive,” Northeastern Law News Announcement (September 27, 2022).
• “Jim Crow’s Forgotten History of Homicides,” The New York Times (September 21, 2022).
• “How the Jim Crow South Encouraged Racial Policing by Those With ‘No Legal Authority,” News@Northeastern (September 20, 2022).
• “Professor Margaret Burnham’s New Book, By Hands Now Known, Challenges Our Understanding of the Jim Crow Era,” Northeastern Law News Announcement (September 12, 2022).
• “Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) and Criminal Justice Task Force Announce Victories in the Fight for Justice,” Northeastern Law News Announcement (September 1, 2022).
• “Massachusetts Should Require Gun Liability Insurance,” The Boston Globe (July 29, 2022).
• “How to Prevent Cops from Killing: Weaken Unions and Make Police Pay for Misconduct,” USA Today (June 25, 2022).
• “Algiers Remembers Edwin Williams, Sr.,” WWL-TV (June 23, 2022).
• “Northeastern’s Racial Redress and Reparations Lab Is Creating a Tool for Lawmakers To Pursue Racial Redress,” News@Northeastern (June 15, 2022).
• “The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America,” The New York Times Magazine (June 8, 2022).
• “SJC Takes Big Step Backward on Racial Justice,” CommonWealth (February 12, 2022).
• Video: Professor Margaret Burnham Provides Testimony to Senate Committee on Her Nomination to Civil Rights Cold Case Review Board (January 14, 2022).
• Video: “Why Rachael Rollins’ Confirmation Was So Divisive,” CBS Boston (December 8, 2021).
• “Northeastern Law Announces Inaugural Racial Justice Faculty Fellowships,” Northeastern Law News Announcement (November 12, 2021).
• “A Jim Crow–Era Murder. A Family Secret. Decades Later, What Does Justice Look Like?,” Mother Jones (October 18, 2021).
• Facebook Live Panel: “Partnering with the Police,” We are America the Beautiful (August 16, 2021).
• “NH Police Department Under Fire for Listing ‘Qualified Immunity’ as Job Perk in Recruitment Post,” 7News Boston (August 4, 2021).
• “Remembering Bob Moses, 1935–2021,” The Nation (July 26, 2021).
• “Should Police Pay For Their Own Liability Insurance? This Law Professor Thinks So,” Wisconsin Public Radio (May 25, 2021).
• “What will Acting Mayor Kim Janey do about Boston police?,” The Boston Globe (May 2, 2021).
• “How Liability Insurance Could Stop Police Brutality,” CBC Radio (April 26, 2021).
• Special Report on the Trial of former Police Office Derek Chauvin, ABC News (April 7, 2021).
• “Chauvin’s Lawyer Asked a Black Witness About Anger, Conjuring Centuries-Old Tropes, Scholars Say,” The Washington Post (March 30, 2021).
• “Mandatory Professional Liability Insurance for California Police? Lawmakers Are Interested,” Mission Local (December 18, 2020).
• “Police Release ‘Traumatic’ and ‘Graphic’ Video of Walter Wallace,” The Washington Post (November 4, 2020).
• “Can Requiring Police Professional Insurance Tame Police Misconduct?,” Criminal Injustice (August 25, 2020).
• “How Qualified Immunity Became the Sticking Point in Mass. Police Reform Debates,” WBUR News (July 30, 2020).
• “‘We Have to Move to Place Where Non-Serious, Non-Violent, Non-Dangerous Actions Do Not Involve Police Interaction,’” Northeastern News (July 23, 2020).
• “Professor Calls For Liability Insurance For Cops To Help Prevent Misconduct,” WGBH News Greater Boston with Jim Braude (July 15, 2020).
  
• “New York Legislators Introduce Bill to Require Liability Insurance for Police,” ABC News (July 13, 2020).
• “Police Brutality Calls for Police Accountability,” ABC's Good Morning America (July 10, 2020).
  
• “Mandatory Professional Liability for Police Officers: How Insurance Can Step Up According to This Criminal Law Scholar,” Risk & Insurance (June 29, 2020).
• “Ramirez on Reforming the Police Through Liability Insurance,” TortsProf Blog (June 18, 2020).
  
  • “The Dirty Secret Behind Qualified Immunity for Police,” The Boston Globe (June 10, 2020) (co-author).
  • “Liability Insurance Could Hold 'Reckless' Police Officers Accountable,” NPR's All Things Considered (June 7, 2020).
  • “The PowerPLAY Looks At America Under Siege: Policing The Police with Professor Deborah Ramirez,” The PowerPLAY Podcast (June 3, 2020).
  • “Policing the Police: Could Mandatory Professional Liability Insurance for Officers Provide a New Accountability Model?,” 45 American Journal of Criminal Law; Austin 407 (2019) (co-author).
  • “Policing Testimony from Professor Deborah Ramirez and Sue Rahr,” C-SPAN (May 19, 2015).
    Professor Deborah Ramirez outlines her proposed roadmap to justice before the House Judiciary Committee.
• “Albert King is Not Forgotten,” The Washington Post Magazine (May 28, 2021).
• “Call For Action: The Guilty Verdicts in Derek Chauvin’s Trial Were Just the Beginning,” Northeastern News (April 22, 2021).
• “Derek Chauvin’s Guilty Verdict Is a Step Toward Justice and Police Reform–but It’s Not the End of Racism in the US,” Northeastern News (April 22, 2021).
• Digital Short:“The War at Home,” PBS | American Experience (April 14, 2021).
• “Payback for Pain and Loss: Reparations for Relatives of Lynching Victims?,” Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting (November 24, 2020).
• “Reparations ‘Essential’ to Addressing Systemic Racial Injustice, Speakers Say,” Northeastern News (November 17, 2020).
• “72 Years Before George Floyd, This Police Killing Sparked National Protests,” Experience Magazine (November 12, 2020).
• “The John Lewis Legacy: Protecting the Right to be Free from Racist Policing,” CRRJ Blog (July 30, 2020).
• “A Black Man Accused of Rape, a White Officer in the Klan, and a 1936 Lynching That Went Unpunished,” The Washington Post (July 19, 2020).
• “Unearthing the Stories of Yesterday’s George Floyds,” The Boston Globe (July 17, 2020).
• “Don’t Touch Your Face: Pandemic Within a Pandemic,” Foreign Policy Podcast (June 15, 2020).
• “US Police Brutality Protests,” Al-Jazeera (June 2020).
• “Todd & Weld LLP Provides Support to CRRJ in Honor of George Floyd,” Northeastern Law News Announcement (June 4, 2020).
• “How Do Today’s Black Lives Matter Protests Compare to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s?,” Northeastern News (June 4, 2020).
• “The Half Was Never Told: Honoring George Floyd,” CRRJ Blog (June 2, 2020).
• “A Black Man was Killed in Georgia, Should the Case be Tried as a Hate Crime?,” Northeastern News (May 21, 2020).
• “Was Ahmaud Arbery Lynched and Why Does it Matter?,”CRRJ Blog (May 9, 2020).
• “Boy Scout Sex-Abuse Suit Involving Floridian Could Open Floodgates for More Victim Claims,” Miami Herald, January 6, 2020.
• “Mellon Foundation Awards $750,000 to Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project,” Northeastern Law News Announcement (September 17, 2019).
• “Toni Morrison’s Influence Extends Beyond Literature,”Northeastern News (August 9, 2019).
• “Ford Foundation Funds CRRJ Archive,” Northeastern Law Magazinge (August 21, 2019).
• “Toni Morrison’s Influence Extends Beyond Literature,” Northeastern News (August 9, 2019).
• “Murder in Mobile Hits the Red Carpets,” Northeastern News (June 20, 2019).
• “NJ Teens That Tweeted Their Civil Rights Bill Into Law Will Now Lobby for Federal Funding,” Fox News (March 8, 2019).
• “‘From Students in High School All the Way to the President’s Desk.’ How a Government Class Fought for the Release of Unsolved FBI Civil Rights Case Files,” The Washington Post (February 23, 2019).
• “Teens Tweet Trump, Find Senate Ally, Score Civil Rights Win,” Associated Press (February 23, 2019).
• “The Healing Project: Finding Justice for Families of Victims of Injustice,” The Louisiana Weekly (November 26, 2018).
• “Mobilian Honored With Street Dedication 70 Years After His Murder,” WSFA (August 18, 2018).
• “Recalling Their Names: Mobile Honors Victims of Jim Crow-Era Killings,” AL.com (August 18, 2018).
• “After Seven Decades, Alabama Honors Jim Crow-Era Victims,” Northeastern News (August 18, 2018).
• “Memorializing Racially-Motivated Deaths Beyond Lynchings,” The American Homefront Project (August 14, 2018).
• “A Black Family Confronts a 70-Year-Old Killing and a White Man’s Exoneration,” The Washington Post (August 11, 2018).
• “Mobile Street Name to Honor Jim Crow-Era Murder Victim,” Miami Herald (July 24, 2018).
• “Northeastern Program Uncovers the Stories Behind the Victims Of Lynching and Other Racial Violence in the Jim Crow Era,” WGBH's Greater Boston (May 2, 2018).

• “Lynching Memorial Forces Us to Confront Our Racist Past — And Present,” WBUR's Cognoscenti (May 2, 2018).
• “Descendant Of Slave Owner: Lynching Memorial Brings To Light A 'Buried Narrative',” KERA News (April 28, 2018).
• “Harvey Church Honors Black Man Killed by Police in Gretna 70 Years Ago,” The Times-Picayune (April 28, 2018).
• “Gretna Family One Step Closer to Justice Decades After Police Killing of Black Man,” (April 27, 2018).
• “'He Left a Great Legacy:' Ceremony to Commemorate Killing of Black Man in Gretna 70 Years Ago,” The New Orleans Advocat (April 27, 2018).
• “Engaging Imaginations, Making History,”Carnegie Reporter (April 26, 2018)
• "A Lynching's Long Shadow," The New York Times (April 25, 2018)
• “Great-Grandson of Lynching Victim Faces the Past: "This is American History," (CBS Evening News, April 10, 2018)

• “Confronting the Past: A Young Man Tries to Understand the Lynching of his Great-Grandfather,”  Arizona Republic (April 4, 2018)
• “Don’t Go to Georgia, His Mom said. But He Had to Know Who Lynched His Great-Grandfather,” USA Today (April 4, 2018)
• “Your Turn: How My Great-Grandfather's Lynching Impacted My Views on Race,” Arizona Republic (April 4, 2018)
• "Ga. Chief’s Lynching Apology Draws Worldwide Attention," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (March 17, 2018)
• “Georgia Sheriff Acknowledges Law Enforcement’s Role in 1947 Lynching,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (March 14, 2018)
• "Sessions Feigns Concern For Asian-Americans To Gut Affirmative Action," WBUR's Cognoscenti (August 4, 2017)
• "Documenting Lynching and its Influence: The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic at Northeastern University is Doing Just That," The Metropole (June 26, 2017)
• "Tuskegee Hosts Conference Remembering Those Fallen to Injustice,"  WSFA 12 News (June 15, 2017)
• "Symposium on Racial Violence History in State of Alabama," The Tuskegee News (June 8, 2017)
• "Group Archiving Racially Motivated Murders,"The Oxford Eagle (May 30, 2017)
• "Northeastern Unveils Project Commemorating History of Lower Roxbury," The Daily Free Press (April 19, 2017)
• "Nearly 8 Decades Later, an Apology for a Lynching in Georgia," The New York Times (January 26, 2017)
• "In a First, Georgia Police Chief to Apologize for 1940 Lynching," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (January 26, 2017)
• "A Reality Check on Claims of Vintage 'Fake News'," The Washington Post (January 5, 2017)
• "Bringing Justice, and Closure, in Civil Rights Cold Case," news@Northeastern (January 5, 2017)
• "Boston Law School Leads Project On Cold Cases Of Lynching," okayplayer.com (January 4, 2017)
• "Getting Away With Murder," The Marshall Project (January 3, 2017)
• "Recent Graduate Shines Investigative Light on 75- Year- Old Civil Rights Cold Case," news@Northeastern (September 23, 2016)
• "A Lynching Kept Out of Sight," The Washington Post (September 2, 2016)
• "CRRJ Provides First Full Account of Notorious 1947 Georgia Jailhouse Killing,"  CRRJ Press Release (August 22, 2016)
• "Cambridge Rindge And Latin Students Seek Answers In 1940 Louisiana Lynching" WBUR News (June 3, 2016)
• "Burnham Selected for Prestigious Carnegie Fellows Program" (April 19, 2016)
• "Margaret Burnham Restores Justice in Violent Cold Cases,"Long Beach Press Telegram (February 26, 2016)
• "'Commemoration for a purpose,'" news@Northeastern, (November 7, 2015)
• CRRJ Featured on Higher Ground, WHDH, Channel 7, Boston (October 18, 2015)
• "60 Years Later, Echoes of Emmett Till’s Killing," The New York Times (August 31, 2015)
• "The Cold Cases of the Jim Crow Era," The New York Times (August 28, 2015)
• "3Qs: Law professor remembers civil rights icon," news@Northeastern (August 20, 2015)
• "Racial Violence and Restorative Justice," Daily Kos (August 9, 2015)
• "What We Can Learn From Sandra Bland's Tragic End," WBUR's Cognoscenti (July 28, 2015)
• 'We Are All Hurt,' news@Northeastern (June 24, 2015)
• "Baltimore Wasn’t The First City To Burn, And It Won’t Be The Last," WBUR's Cognoscenti (May 1, 2015)
• Obama Walks a Fine Line on Baltimore Riots, RN Breakfast Radio (April 30, 2015)
• Black in Time: Generations Connect Seeking Justice, Miami Herald (April 23, 2015)
• Professor Margaret Burnham Comments on the Walter Scott Case, Al Jazeera English (April 9, 2015)
• 3 Questions: Melissa Nobles on Advancing Racial and Restorative Justice,  MIT News (April 6, 2015)
• VT Law Student Investigates Racial Killings, Burlington Free Press (March 15, 2015)
• Truth and Reconciliation is Coming to America From the Grassroots, The Guardian (February 26, 2015)
• Law Student Limelight: Hannah Adams, Northeastern University, Lawdragon Campus (February 1, 2015)
• "Street Cars Center of Many Racially Motivated Killings," GPB Radio's On Second Thought (January 15, 2015)
• "Documenting Jim Crow Era Deaths," BYU Radio's Morning Show (January 14, 2015)
• "Alabama's Jim Crow Era Murders Under New Spotlight," AL.com (January 8, 2015)
• "The Goal: To Remember Each Jim Crow Killing, From The '30s On," NPR's Weekend Edition (January 3, 2015)
• "A trip back to Atlanta’s Streetcars in the Jim Crow Era," The Atlanta-Journal Constitution (January 2, 2015)
• "Northeastern University students uncover forgotten killings from Jim Crow era," The Boston Globe (December 21, 2014)
• "The New Great Dissenter: On Affirmative Action, Sotomayor Gets It Right," NPR's Cognoscenti (April 25, 2014)
• "A Nation-Creating Moment: Remembering The March On Washington,"  NPR's Cognoscenti (August 28, 2013)
• "The Justice System's Role In The Death Of Trayvon Martin," NPR's Cognoscenti (July 26, 2013)
• "Confronting Our Legacy Of Racial Violence (With A Little Help From The President)," NPR's Cognoscenti (January 21, 2013)
• "Illuminating the African-American Experience," news@Northeastern (January 12, 2012)
• "Justice Follows Decades of Silence," The Boston Globe (June 23, 2010)
• "Miss. Officials Agree To Settlement In '64 Slayings," NPR’s All Things Considered (June 21, 2010)
• Margaret Burnham and Janeen Blake discuss the Dee and Moore Case on The Callie Crossley Show.
• CRRJ welcomes the families of Charles Moore and Henry Dee to Northeastern University School of Law
• "Town Honors Victim of Civil Rights-Era Violence" Longview News Journal (October 24, 2010)
• Margaret Burnham discusses CRRJ’s restorative justice efforts and the Reese case on Radio Boston, WBUR
• CRRJ’s Louis Allen case profiled on 60 Minutes
• CRRJ’s Isadore Banks case profiled on Anderson Cooper 360°