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  • Northeastern's annual observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday will examine voting rights. A high-stakes legislative chess match is taking place on Capitol Hill over the issue. Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP Images

    Voting rights take center stage on Martin Luther King Jr. Day


    Nearly six decades after King lobbied for the rights of Black people to cast a vote, the issue of voting rights returns to command the nation’s attention. Northeastern’s MLK observance will feature a keynote address by a senior Justice Department attorney on the steps the agency is taking to protect and promote the right to vote.
    • by Peter Ramjug   January 13, 2022
  • Northeastern law graduate Rachael Rollins will be ‘fair on crime, but she will be tough on crime’ if confirmed as the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, says law school classmate, Dan Jackson. Photo by Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

    Northeastern law grad Rachael Rollins in line for a senior Justice Dept. job in the Biden administration


    Rollins, a 1997 alum, was nominated to become the top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts, but she faces political headwinds in the Senate. If confirmed, Rollins and another Northeastern law alum, Maura Healey, the Massachusetts attorney general, will be the highest ranking law enforcement officials in the state.
    • by Peter Ramjug   October 21, 2021
  • New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo

    Why resigning won’t end Cuomo’s problems


    Resigning likely takes impeachment off the table, say Northeastern legal experts, but does nothing to stop the criminal or civil lawsuits that may arise from Cuomo’s alleged harassment of women. “This story is only the beginning,” says Rose Zoltek-Jick, a law professor whose expertise includes civil lawsuits related to sexual abuse cases.
    • by Peter Ramjug   August 10, 2021
  • Press clippings from Jefferson County, Alabama.

    The untold stories of 123 Black people killed by white police officers in one Alabama county


    No officers were convicted for the killings, which occurred between 1932 and 1968 in Jefferson County, Alabama, according to a three-year investigation by Northeastern's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project. “What are the numbers in other police departments across the country?” asks Katie Sandson, a legal fellow for the project who led the study.
    • by Ian Thomsen   July 30, 2020

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