Long Beach Jewish Life February 2016 | Page 10

25th Annual CCEJ

Interfaith Intercultural Breakfast

Theme Will Be Community Healing & Reconciliation

A crowd of over 800 is expected to welcome keynote speaker Professor Margaret Burnham, at the 25th Interfaith Intercultural Breakfast on Wednesday, February 24th, 2016 at 7.30 am at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center.

Professor Margaret Burnham joined the Northeastern University School of Law faculty in 2002. Her fields of expertise are civil and human rights, comparative constitutional rights, and international criminal law. She is the founder of the School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, which engages students in legal matters relating to the 1960s US civil rights movement.

In 2010, Professor Burnham headed a team of outside counsel and law students in a landmark case that settled a federal lawsuit: Professor Burnham’s team accused Franklin County Mississippi law enforcement officials of assisting Klansmen in the kidnapping, torture and murder of two 19-year-olds, Henry Dee and

officials of assisting Klansmen in the kidnapping, torture and murder of two 19-year-olds, Henry Dee and

Charles Eddie Moore. The case and settlement were widely covered in the national press.

Professor Margaret Burnham