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.