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Here’s what these professors say is missing from the national debate over blackface

What happens when the people we entrust with our lives and well-being compromise their credibility with a single photo? Northeastern professors Margaret Burnham and Moya…
- by Khalida Sarwari February 22, 2019
‘A response to Martin Luther King’s challenge’

Murder in Mobile, a documentary by Adam Fischer and Benjamin Bertsch, the creative directors of Northeastern Films, premiered Friday before a standing-room audience on the…
- by Ian Thomsen January 25, 2019
Murder in Mobile

A Northeastern project unearthed the case of Rayfield Davis, a black man who was murdered in 1948 in Mobile, Alabama, by a white man who…
- by Ian Thomsen January 24, 2019
After seven decades, Alabama honors Jim Crow-era victims

Northeastern’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project investigated the murders of six black men that went unpunished in the 1940s. Their stories were revealed in…
- by Ian Thomsen August 18, 2018
Northeastern faculty, Lebanese judiciary convene in Beirut to discuss alternatives to incarceration

A delegation of Northeastern faculty members recently traveled to Beirut to help Lebanon’s Higher Judicial Council explore the possibility of using plea bargaining as a…
- by Jason Kornwitz October 17, 2017
How can journalism ‘move the conversation forward’ on race?

In the wake of racially charged rallies like the one in Charlottesville, Virginia last month, and as cities take stock of their histories by way…
- by Molly Callahan September 22, 2017
Bringing justice, and closure, in civil rights cold cases

Legislation signed last month by President Barack Obama permanently extended federal authorities’ opportunity to pursue civil rights cold cases. Law professor Margaret Burnham says the…
- by Greg St. Martin January 5, 2017
Law professor Margaret Burnham named Carnegie Fellow

Burnham founded Northeastern’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, and her fellowship will support the development of the project’s archive.
- by Greg St. Martin April 19, 2016
Northeastern to host screening of Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now

The film—which reexamines the groundbreaking documentary Eyes on the Prize from the viewpoint of civil rights activists past and present—will be screened on Thursday at…
- by Jason Kornwitz March 24, 2016
‘Commemoration for a purpose’

Law professor Margaret Burnham highlighted the groundbreaking work of Northeastern’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice project on Friday morning at the Association for Black Culture…
- by Greg St. Martin November 7, 2015

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Here’s what these professors say is missing from the national debate over blackface

‘A response to Martin Luther King’s challenge’

Murder in Mobile

After seven decades, Alabama honors Jim Crow-era victims

Northeastern faculty, Lebanese judiciary convene in Beirut to discuss alternatives to incarceration

How can journalism ‘move the conversation forward’ on race?

Bringing justice, and closure, in civil rights cold cases

Law professor Margaret Burnham named Carnegie Fellow

Northeastern to host screening of Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now

‘Commemoration for a purpose’

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