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Margaret Burnham is University Distinguished Professor of Law and founder of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University and the author of By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners.
Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Margaret Burnham on her work in reconstructing Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.
A second roundtable with Eugene Rivers, bell hooks, Randall Kennedy, Regina Austin, and Selwyn Cudjoe, with Margaret Burnham as moderator.
A roundtable with bell hooks, Cornel West, and more.
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