‘The Most Consequential Project We Have.’ New Archive Gives Voice to Forgotten Victims of Lynching

On Thursday, October 7, Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project celebrated the launch of the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, a collection of records of anti-Black killings during the Jim Crow era. “I believe that this is the most consequential project and mission we have in this university,” said Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun. “This project doesn’t belong to the university. It belongs to society as a whole, and, indeed, the world.”