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Recent Press and Editorials
- Video: “Ida B. Wells and the Long Crusade to Outlaw Lynching,” Retro Report (February 15, 2024).
- “Boston Taps Reparations Researchers To Help Guide ‘An Open Dialogue With the Community’,” The Boston Globe (January 24, 2024).
- “Boston Reparations Panel Pivots Toward Slavery Research, Eyes Deadline Extension,” GBH News (January 24, 2024).
- “Wu Announces Research Teams for Task Force on Reparations,” Bay State Banner (January 24, 2024).
- “Northeastern Law Team Selected as Research Partner by Boston’sTask Force on Reparations,” Northeastern Law News Announcement (January 24, 2024).
- “A Durham Moment: ‘We Can Only Inspire Young Folks if We Teach the Truth’,” 9th Street Journal (December 5, 2023).
- “By Hands Now Known Wins The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award,” CRRJ News Announcement (October 26, 2023).
- “Margaret Burnham is 2023 Governor’s Awards in the Humanities Honoree,” Northeastern Law News (October 2, 2023).
- “Burnham, Bonauto and Kauffman to be Inducted into MLW Hall of Fame,” Northeastern Law News (September 29, 2023).
- “Professor Margaret Burnham Honored with Mass Humanities Governor’s Award,” Northeastern Law News (August 1, 2023).
- “Professor Margaret Burnham Wins Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Dedicates Award to Her Parents,” Los Angeles Times (April 21, 2023).
- “Professor Margaret Burnham Receives Northeastern’s Excellence in Research and Creativity Award,” Northeastern Global News (April 20, 2023).
- “Professor Margaret Burnham Wins Nautilus Award,” (April 2023).
- “2023 Hillman Prize Winners Announced,” (April 25, 2023).
- “Army Corrects the Record About a Black Soldier Killed by a White Sergeant in 1941,” The New York Times (December 10, 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).
- “Law Professor Unearths Cases of Racial Violence from the Jim Crow Era,” NPR’s “Fresh Air” (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).
- “Chicago Humanities Festival announces fall headliners, including Patti Smith, Jessica Lange and Chelsea Manning,” Chicago Tribune (September 13, 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).
- “Finalists for the 2022 Kirkus Prize are Revealed,” Kirkus (September 8, 2022).
- “30 Books We Can’t Wait for This Fall,” Los Angeles Times (August 30, 2022).
- “By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners,” Publishers Weekly (August 2022).
- “The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America,” The New York Times Magazine (June 8, 2022).
- “A Jim Crow–Era Murder. A Family Secret. Decades Later, What Does Justice Look Like?,” Mother Jones (October 18, 2021).
- “Remembering Bob Moses, 1935–2021,” The Nation (July 26, 2021).
- “Felix Hall, a Soldier Lynched at Fort Benning, is Remembered After 80 Years,” The New York Times (August 20, 2021).
- “Biden Nominates Civil Rights Lawyer Margaret Burnham for Federal Civil Rights Cold Case Review Board,” News@Northeastern (June 16, 2021).
- “Call For Action: The Guilty Verdicts in Derek Chauvin’s Trial Were Just the Beginning,” News@Northeastern (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,” News@Northeastern (April 20, 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,” News@Northeastern (November 17, 2020).
- “72 Years Before George Floyd, This Police Killing Sparked National Protests,” Experience Magazine (November 12, 2020).
- “The Untold Stories of 123 Black People Killed by White Police Officers in One Alabama County,” News@Northeastern (July 30, 2020).
- “The John Lewis Legacy: Protecting the Right to be Free from Racist Policing,” CRRJ Blog (July 30, 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).
- “How Do Today’s Black Lives Matter Protests Compare to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s?,” News@Northeastern (June 4, 2020).
- “US Police Brutality Protests,” Al-Jazeera (June 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?,” News@Northeastern (May 21, 2020).
- “Was Ahmaud Arbery Lynched and Why Does it Matter?,” CRRJ Blog (May 9, 2020).
- “What We Can Learn From the Blacklash to the The New York Times History of Slavery in the United States,” Northeastern News (August 21, 2019).
- “Toni Morrison’s Influence Extends Beyond Literature,” News@Northeastern (August 9, 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).
- “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).
- “Gretna Family One Step Closer to Justice Decades After Police Killing of Black Man,” WWL-TV (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).
- “Family Wreath-laying Ceremony Will Take Place in Georgia State Capital,” Al Jazeera Media View (April 10, 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).
- “Northeastern Faculty, Lebanese Judiciary Convene in Beirut to Discuss Alternatives to Incarceration,” News@Northeastern (October 17, 2017).
- "Sessions Feigns Concern For Asian-Americans To Gut Affirmative Action,” WBUR's Cognoscenti (August 4, 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).
- “Getting Away With Murder,” The Marshall Project (January 3, 2017).
- “Trump is Just the Latest Obstacle on the Zigzagging Course of Racial Progress,” The Guardian (December 19, 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).
- “The Most Important Moment For Civil Rights This Century Is Upon Us,” WBUR’s Cognoscenti (July 11, 2016).
- “Foundation Names 33 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Winners,” The New York Times (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).
- “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).
- “Racial Violence and Restorative Justice,” Daily Kos (August 9, 2015).
- “What We Can Learn From Sandra Bland's Tragic End," NPR's Cognoscenti (July 28, 2015).
- "'We Are All Hurt,'" Northeastern News (June 24, 2015).
- "Baltimore Wasn’t The First City To Burn, And It Won’t Be The Last,” NPR'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).
Research
- “The Long Civil Rights Act and Criminal Justice,” 95 Boston University Law Review 687 (2015)
- “Soldiers and Buses: All Aboard,” 5 Race and Justice 2 (April 2015)