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Margaret A. Burnham

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.

Articles

Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Margaret Burnham on her work in reconstructing Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.

Margaret A. Burnham, Jeanne Theoharis

A second roundtable with Eugene Rivers, bell hooks, Randall Kennedy, Regina Austin, and Selwyn Cudjoe, with Margaret Burnham as moderator.

Joshua Cohen, Selwyn Cudjoe, Regina Austin, Margaret A. Burnham, Randall L. Kennedy, bell hooks, Eugene F. Rivers III

A roundtable with bell hooks, Cornel West, and more.

Eugene F. Rivers III, Margaret A. Burnham, Henry Louis Gates, Jr, bell hooks, Glenn C. Loury, Cornel West, Anthony Appiah

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Tracey Meares and Dan Kahan have simply got it wrong. To use poor black Chicagoans as guinea pigs for enhanced police powers of dubious constitutionality is to twice victimize these communities. Although...
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