Superb retelling of Eleanor Rush's death in 1954 thank you @theassemblync.bsky.social and Michael Hewlett for focusing on this case, honoring her story with accurate and thorough research, restoring dignity to Rush and victims with similar histories: www.theassemblync.com/news/politic...
Professor Margaret Burnham reflects on Jesse Jackson's legacy: "His enduring gift...was his ability to empathize with and thereby empower people from all corners of the world who aspired to equality and freedom.“ @nuglobalnews.bsky.social @crrj.bsky.social
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📺 WATCH: Margaret Burnham, CRRJ Director, on ABC News, talking about the declaration of innocence and wrongful execution of Tommy Lee Walker
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Here's the 2016 article from Mary Mapes for @dmagazine.bsky.social that sparked the re-investigation by CRRJ, Margaret Burnham and @innocenceproject.bsky.social @chrisfabricant.bsky.social
Thank you for shedding light on this atrocious miscarriage of justice: www.dmagazine.com/publications...
Following a joint reinvestigation by NUSL’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, @innocenceproject.bsky.social and Dallas DA, the Dallas County Commissioners Court has declared Tommy Lee Walker innocent—70 years after his wrongful execution at age 19.
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In a historic move, Dallas County officials voted Wednesday to symbolically exonerate a man executed nearly 70 years ago for a crime he could not have committed.
Tommy Lee Walker was convicted in 1954 of the murder of Venice Lorraine Parker under a bridge near the Love Field airport.
⚖️ Justice, 70 years after Tommy Lee Walker was executed in Dallas, TX. Thank you to our colleagues at the Dallas County DA's office and @innocenceproject.bsky.social -- CRRJ is proud to have worked side-by-side with you all in reaching this historic day & congratulations to Walker's son and family.
🖋️ Our colleagues at CLEAR have launched a petition demanding justice for Renee Nicole Good and an official independent state investigation into Officer Ross' actions.
SIGN HERE: www.change.org/p/justice-fo...
Texas Man’s Fight to Move a Lynching Marker Sparks New Battle for Truth capitalbnews.org/texas-lynchi...
🔖 From @eji.org: Across the South, Black voting-rights activists were murdered by white mobs and officials. Their killers walked free. Their courage changed democracy.
Read more: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Thank you to Auburn University's Alabama Political Reporter for sharing the story Eddie Green, a 23-year old minister who was lynched in 1943, one of the early cases investigated by CRRJ.
Read more about his case: www.alreporter.com/2025/11/11/t...
✨ New post about former Kimbrough Scholar and CRRJ researcher, Helen Bekele, now @nusl.bsky.social '28, and her journey through justice
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We were honored to attend this year’s Race & Law Center Network convening, generously hosted by UCLA's School of Law. Thank you for an enriching experience and congratulations on 25 years of Critical Race Studies.
🎙️ LISTEN: Latest season of @npr.org and @wkno.bsky.social's Civil Wrongs podcast out now, centers on case of Phillip Hatley, WWI veteran killed by Memphis police officers in 1939. @nusl.bsky.social's CRRJ has worked with Hatley's descendants for many years. Read more:
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#tdih 1955: 16-yr-old John Earl Reese was killed 💔 in Mayflower, Texas when white men fired shots into a café in an effort to stop implementation of Brown v. Board through terrorism.
Read more ⬇️and see a short film from @crrj.bsky.social
#TeachTruth
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Identifying the names of victims is difficult when cataloging incidents of racial violence in the Jim Crow South. Learn how the staff at the @crrj.bsky.social Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive work to make researching and honoring these victims easier: librarynews.northeastern.edu?p=276909
Newspaper clipping headlined "He's 'Texas Red'." It features a mugshot from the front and side of a Black man with a number plate. The caption identifies him a murder victim named both Levi George and "Texas Red."
Misspellings, nicknames, and epithets make cataloging identities of racial violence victims especially difficult. Annie Ross of @crrj.bsky.social details the complicated and sensitive work of making these victims findable regardless of how they're identified: librarynews.northeastern.edu?p=276855
✨ CRRJ Alumni Profile: Tayo Belle graduated from @nusl.bsky.social in 2010. She currently serves as Deputy Director of the School Justice Project in Washington, D.C. and sits on CRRJ’s advisory board. Read about her journey through the CRRJ Clinic.
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Version 2 of CRRJ's Digital Archive - the most complete digital database of racially motivated killings in the Jim Crow South - introduces 290 new victims & more than 5,000 new documents.
Here are 6 recently discovered cases: crrj.org/2025/09/six-...
👋 Meet CRRJ's latest team member, Elizabeth Zitrin Justice Fellow, Meg Gould.
Hailing from Memphis, Tennessee, Gould expects to advance CRRJ’s Posthumous Exonerations project and is looking forward to teaching once again, joining CRRJ's Spring Clinic staff next year:
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"The work of artists, activists, and scholars investigating the story of Emmett Till has expanded our understanding of not just the case, but the wide range of tactics that can be deployed to confront ongoing racial discrimination and violence in the United States."
More: crrj.org/efforts/emme...
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Northeastern University Library and @crrj.bsky.social hosted a meeting of more than 100 representatives of other racial violence archives to discuss an update of the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive and the development of a white paper aimed at creating a national digital archive.
This Thursday marks 70 years since Emmett Till’s lynching. More than 6,500 pages of case records were made public, many for the first time. CRRJ's Director @nusl.bsky.social Professor Margaret Burnham is a member of the Federal Board, responsible for the release: mississippitoday.org/2025/08/21/e...
CRRJ joined citywide memorial in Memphis, TN, honoring lives taken by the MPD, cases dating from the Jim Crow era to the present. Our Research Associate, Lydia Beal, travelled to Memphis to support efforts to recover buried histories and call for accountability. Read more: crrj.org/efforts/crrj...
“A nation-wide digital archive will both inform today’s racial redress agenda and significantly expand our knowledge about these atrocities beyond lynching.” - Margaret Burnham, founder of CRRJ.
Read more about CRRJ's ambitious project with @nu-archives.bsky.social
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CRRJ's former Project Archivist, @northeasternlib.bsky.social's Gina Nortonsmith, on digitizing the archive of Boston legend Elma Lewis, and expanding visibility and access for Black art and artists. Great read from @nuglobalnews.bsky.social
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CRRJ's Associate Director, Professor Rose Zoltek-Jick, on the Jeffrey Epstein files, the politicization of victim safety, and how the DOJ’s past failures undermine public trust in future prosecutions.
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🎉 NOW LIVE! Our Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive v2.0 is now available to search 5,000 new documents, 275 new incidents, across 14 newly added US states and cities.
A huge congratulations to all involved @nusl.bsky.social Northeastern University Library and partners across the country.
