News Coverage
Access print and television coverage of CCJI-related events, legal actions, victims’ stories and more.
- New Emmett Till bill would open files
- The Pain Of Police Killings Can Last Decades
- Civil Rights Activists Seek Justice for Racial Violence in the Name of Emmett Till
- McCaskill pushes for renewal of Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act
- Cold case justice: Inside the hunt for civil rights era killers
- It’s time to admit police have a history of connections with the KKK
- (Video) Police Brutality Isn’t a New Problem. It’s the Same Old Problem
- Headline can read: CCJI featured in Time article that examines the nearing expiration of the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act
- Clip on race-related police killings from Channel One Russian TV
- UN panel to consider US ‘failure’ to clear up racial murders of civil rights era
- Beaten, drowned, burned alive: how US justice failed Emmett Till and Frank Morris
- Families’ wounds stay open as decades-old racist killings are left unsolved
- CCJI Geneva trip covered by Al Jazeera News
- Backers seek expansion of civil rights death law
- Stories from the Kids of Birmingham 1963
- NPR story featuring Paula Johnson (May 18, 2013)
- YNN
- CNY Central
- Daily Orange
- SU law professors, students revisit cold cases from civil rights era in Five Cities Project
- Paula Johnson being interviewed as an expert
- Brooks Holds Re-Enactment
- 9th annual Moore’s Ford Bridge Lynching reenactment takes place on Saturday
- When Cold Cases Stay Cold
- The CCJI was consulted heavily for background on this story
- Roman Ducksworth Family Claims Department Of Justice Overlooked Evidence In 1962 Killing
- When Lawyers and Journalists Share Common Cause
- Feds Vow to Solve Frank Morris Murder
- Grand Jury Convenes To Investigate 1964 Cold Case – This NPR report doesn’t mention CCJI, but does provide more in depth discussion of the grand jury process re the Morris case.
- Also, the Daily Orange did a nice feature on CCJI and focused on the students’ involvement
- “Scant Progress in Effort on Old Racial Killings”
The New York Times
- http://www.blogtalkradio.com/weallbe/2010/07/22/tha-artivist-presentswe-all-be-radio
- CCJI Applauds Settlement Reached in Civil Lawsuit brought by Surviving Family Members of Charles Edward Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, Who Were Killed by Klan Members in May 1964, in Mississippi.
- CCJI Statement on Settlement Reached in Dee and Moore vs. Franklin County Civil Lawsuit
- Professor Burnham’s interview with Michele Norris of National Public Radio
- 46th Annual Mississippi Civil Rights Martyrs Memorial Service and Conference and Caravan for Justice, June 19-20. For more informationclick here.
- “Families of Civil Rights Era murder victims come together for SU Cold Case Justice Initiative event in Atlanta”
SU News Services
- “Never Too Late for Justice”
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CNN
- “Fear Lingers in Civil Rights Era Deaths”
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FOX 5/Atlanta
- “Fear lingers for some years after civil rights era”
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The Seattle Times
- “Relatives of victims of civil rights era violence meet in Atlanta”
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- “Families of those slain during civil rights movement meet in Atlanta”
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The Anniston Star
- NBC Atlanta news video
Multimedia
- UN panel to consider US ‘failure’ to clear up racial murders of civil rights era
- Beaten, drowned, burned alive: how US justice failed Emmett Till and Frank Morris
- Families’ wounds stay open as decades-old racist killings are left unsolved
- For the ghosts of the civil rights era, it is never too late for justice
- Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Act Event
- 50th Anniversary Civil Rights Conference
- SU students investigate civil rights era cold cases
- Judge Helen Shores Lee speaks at College of Law
- CCJI concludes Five Cities Project
- Summer CCJI in Tennessee
- Honorable Helen Shores Lee discussion
- Redemption A Capella sings We Shall Overcome
- NAACP Resolution Drafted by CCJI Approved
- Bernice King Address to CCJI Students
- CCJI News Conference with Dr. CT Vivian at The King Center, Atlanta
- CCJI Atlanta event video
- CCJI Student Orientation
- CCJI visits The King Center
- CCJI at Ebenezer Baptist Church
- CCJI Five Cities Project
FBI Plans to Close Cold Cases
- “Civil rights-era killings yield secrets to FBI probe”
The Washington Post
February 28, 2010 - CCJI Directors’ Letter to Editor
Washington Post
March 10, 2010 - “FBI shuts down Civil Rights Era Investigations”
The Root
March 10, 2010 - CCJI press release on 5th Circuit Reversal Conviction of James Seale
Miscellaneous News Coverage
- Letter from Selma
- Concordia Sentinal updates
- Cold Case Justice
Syracuse University Magazine
Fall 2008 - Justice Deserved
New Orleans Times Picayune
November 3, 2007 - Edgar Ray Killen Says God Will Get You
hungryblues,net
March 1, 2010 - New clues sought in ‘diabolical’ 1964 slaying
CNN
July 17, 2008
Radio Interview
- A radio interview with College of Law Professor Janis McDonald, and Wharlest Jackson Jr. regarding the 1967 murder of Wharlest Jackson Sr. and the work of the Cold Case Justice Initiative at the College of Law, aired on “The Tony Brown Show” on KAYT 88.1 Alexandria, La., 92.5 FM Shreveport, La., 98.9 FM Monroe, La., and 92.7 Jackson, Miss.
Atlanta Radio Interview