Northeastern University Will Host National Civil Rights Leaders to Explore Reparations for Lynchings

The families of lynching victims will come together with national civil rights leaders including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Angela Davis, Congressperson Sheila Jackson Lee and Dread Scott to explore avenues for compensatory reparations and other forms of repair during “Reparations: Lynching as Restorative Justice,” a conference on November 17, 2020, organized by Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) and Northeastern University’s Africana Studies Program.

Professor Wendy Parmet Among Public Health and Law Experts Who Issue Guidelines for US Response to “Inevitable” Widespread Coronavirus Transmission

Widespread transmission of the COVID-19 coronavirus within the United States is “inevitable” and a successful response to the epidemic must protect the health and human rights of everyone in the country, over 450 public health, human rights, and legal experts and organizations warned today in an open letter to Vice President Mike Pence and other government officials.

The Trouble I've Seen

Featuring the work of Northeastern University School of Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), "The Trouble I've Seen" follows the investigations of three harrowing civil rights cold cases. Founded by Professor Margaret Burnham, CRRJ takes on cases that both horrify us and beg us to correct the record, to search for reconciliation and remediation for families and communities that even decades later shudder in the shadows of bigotry and injustice. "The Trouble I've Seen" is narrated by Julian Bond, former chairman of the NAACP.