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Domestic violence within the ranks: How recent allegations are shaking faith in BPD

“Here’s an organization that’s committed to protecting the public but what they actually did is protect someone who had multiple allegations of severe domestic violence from multiple victims. As someone who’s done this work, I’m not surprised and I’m horrified,” said Margo K. Lindauer, director of the Domestic Violence Institute at Northeastern University School of […]
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The local news crisis will be solved one community at a time

Dan Kennedy is a professor of journalism at Northeastern University, a contributor at GBH News and the author of two books about the future of news: The Wired City and The Return of the Moguls.
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So You’re Vaccinated! How Can You Let People Know?

“I believe that the CDC’s guidance was grounded in science,” says Neil Maniar, director of urban health in the Master of Public Health program at Northeastern University.
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CNN is turning its 5 Things newsletter into a franchise that spans podcasting and TV

CNN’s core business model “is in danger” due to cord-cutters who are moving to streaming TV services, said Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University. “It makes sense for the network to experiment with different kinds of news products that aren’t dependent on cable,” he said.
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A New Hire, a Koch Grant, and a Department in Crisis

“A lot of ethical stars and superstars had spent a few years there before going on to other jobs,” said John Basl, a former assistant professor at Bowling Green who moved to Northeastern University in 2013.
Financial Post

William Watson: For lower taxes, more elections?

A new research paper from economists at the University of California (Irvine), Northeastern University in Boston and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board may provide some insight into how the next 18 months of Canadian political life will unfold. Readers who like their paper titles prosaic will enjoy the title of this one: “Politicians […]
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A year after George Floyd’s death, America is still grappling with police violence and reform

A Northeastern University study published in March 2020 found that Black Americans were twice as likely to be shot and killed by police officers, compared with their representation in the population.
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Polarized Policing

Margaret Y.K.Woo is Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law, and sits on the Board of Directors of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Daniel S. Medwed is University Distinguished Professor Law and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University, and Legal Analyst for GBH News.
Daily Mail

Two-thirds of American adults approve of governments mandating Covid shots but half don’t believe businesses should use vaccine passports, poll finds

Both conducted by the COVID States Project – run by Northeastern University, Harvard University, Rutgers University, and Northwestern University – researchers asked various questions about vaccine requirements.
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How to Take Your Activism Offline and Be an Ally in Real Life

University of Pennsylvania professor Dr. Sarah Jackson, Northeastern University professors Dr. Moya Bailey, and Dr. Brooke Foucault Welles, authors of Hashtag Activism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice, argue that virtual activism can mash-up “the speed of communication on the internet with careful organizing,” which lets organizers build “inclusive, connected movements.”
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Texas Passes Restrictive Abortion Measures, Effective In September

Aziza Ahmed, professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law; former Bennett Boskey Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard University.
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U.S. Arrival of Highly Contagious Variant Draws CDC Scrutiny

“From everything I can tell the vaccines are highly effective against this variant,” said Samuel Scarpino, a co-founder of Global.health, an organization that tracks Covid cases and variants internationally. “But there are some states in the U.S. with quite low vaccination coverage putting them at risk for potential outbreaks.”