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Katie Sandson, Program Director, Racial Redress and Reparations Lab at Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Northeastern’s Racial Redress and Reparations Lab is creating a tool for lawmakers to pursue racial redress

The recent release of a California task force’s reparations report is a major step forward for reparations, and Katie Sandson, program director for the Racial Redress and Reparations Lab, wants to make sure more U.S. communities are ready to take that step toward justice.

by Cody Mello-Klein June 15, 2022

Juneteenth just became a federal holiday in the US. Here’s what that means.

Recognizing Juneteenth nationally “emphasizes that African American history is American history,” says Patricia Davis, a critical and cultural studies scholar at Northeastern. The move serves to connect the country’s history with its legacy in the present, say Davis and legal scholar Margaret Burnham.

by Molly Callahan June 17, 2021

Reparations ‘essential’ to addressing systemic racial injustice, speakers say

Lurking behind systems from enslavement to segregation, from redlining to police violence, is a “brutal logic” from which the “lives and families of African Americans are subject to the acquisition by people to enrich themselves,” said author Ta-Nehisi Coates during a daylong conference hosted by Northeastern’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and the Africana Studies Program that also included commentary from noted activist Angela Y. Davis and others, as well as testimony from the descendants of lynching victims.

by Molly Callahan November 17, 2020

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Let’s talk about reparations for the families of lynching victims

Northeastern will host writer and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates and civil rights icon Angela Davis for a conference on reparations for the descendants of lynching victims. The historic event will take place at a time when public officials across the country are making a renewed effort to repair past wrongs within their communities, says Margaret Burnham, university distinguished professor of law.

by Khalida Sarwari November 15, 2020

Clockwise from top left: Ted Landsmark, distinguished professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern; Melissa Pearson, assistant teaching professor of English in the College of Social Studies and Humanities; Daniel Medwed, university distinguished professor of law and criminal justice in the School of Law; Rod Brunson, Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. chair of public life and professor in criminology and criminal justice and the department of political science in the College of Social Studies and Humanities. Handout photos

‘These burdens shouldn’t be laid just at our doorstep’

The hard work of confronting systemic racism and effecting meaningful change requires universal support, as Black Northeastern professors noted at a panel discussion in recognition of Juneteenth, the holiday of the emancipation of slaves in the U.S.

by Ian Thomsen June 19, 2020

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Northeastern’s Racial Redress and Reparations Lab is creating a tool for lawmakers to pursue racial redress

Juneteenth just became a federal holiday in the US. Here’s what that means.

Reparations ‘essential’ to addressing systemic racial injustice, speakers say

Let’s talk about reparations for the families of lynching victims

‘These burdens shouldn’t be laid just at our doorstep’

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