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Juneteenth is helping families discover details about enslaved ancestors

Families can trace their connections to these places and visit to recapture their past, Kabria Baumgartner, Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at Northeastern University, tells Axios.
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Supreme Court Changes Its Schedule

Dan Urman, a law professor who specializes in the Supreme Court at Northeastern University, told Newsweek that the announcement is expected given the number of cases that the court still has yet to decide this term, and that more dates are likely to be added before the end of next week.
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Dozens killed, hundreds injured in shootings nationwide over Father’s Day weekend

By this point last year, the country had already had six mass killings – defined as an attack in which four or more people are killed – in public places, according to James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern University in Boston who oversees the database. 
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Many leaders are too hands off when it comes to AI. It is time for them to lead, expert urges

Top organizational leaders are failing the artificial intelligence test, according to technology expert and Northeastern University business school dean David De Cremer. Instead of becoming personally involved, learning the details and communicating a vision and purpose, they are leaving it to the tech experts.

Surgeon General Calls for Warning Labels on Social Media Platforms

That challenge may find a sympathetic ear in U.S. courtrooms, with a cohort of judges who show less deference to public health regulations than their predecessors did, said Claudia E. Haupt, a professor of law and political science at Northeastern University School of Law.
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Business books: what to read this month

Most of us have a lot to learn about how our jobs will be shaped by artificial intelligence. David De Cremer, dean of D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, has a sobering message for those in charge: don’t forget that it is you, rather than the technology, that needs to lead.
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Computer science students must be taught to consider social effects

In many ways, there has never been a better time to lead a college of computer science. At Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences, where I have been dean since 2022, our student body has tripled in the past decade and enrolments are still soaring, while the gender gap is shrinking. We see great enthusiasm for careers in this dynamic, challenging field.
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Republican Fact-Checked About Crime Under Joe Biden During Interview

Criminologists and experts have weighed in on the findings, with Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox telling the Tampa Bay Times earlier this month, “Biden’s statement about violent crime is absolutely true. Despite a spike in murder in 2020 amidst the emergence of COVID, even homicides have declined.”

The complicated history of school choice in Boston

Northeastern University professor Dan O’Brien, one of that report’s authors, came to see the uneven distribution of high-quality schools in the district as the “unsolvable problem” at the heart of the district’s various experiments in school choice.
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Hunter Biden convicted on gun charges: Will he go to jail?

Costas Panagopoulos, head of Northeastern University’s Department of Political Science, said in an interview with the university’s news website that Hunter Biden’s and Trump’s convictions reinforce that the US judicial system is working under President Biden, contradicting Trump’s allegation that it is rigged.
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Top investigator in Karen Read murder case questioned over inappropriate texts

“The texts are appalling and wildly unprofessional, to put it mildly, and it’s hard to imagine they won’t hurt the prosecution’s case in the eyes of the jury,” Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University who is not involved in the case, told The Associated Press.
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Child Marriage Havens Emerging Across America

And opponents to child marriage bans view it as a solution to teenage pregnancy, according to Hayat Bearat, interim director of the Domestic Violence Institute at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.