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How Qualified Immunity Became The Sticking Point In Mass. Police Reform Debates

Deborah Ramirez, a professor of law at Northeastern University, joined WBUR’s Morning Edition to explain qualified immunity and how it has evolved.  
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Trump Sees Showdown Over Statues as Path to Political Gain

But “most people don’t get their history from monuments,” says Patricia Davis, a cultural studies scholar and associate professor at Northeastern University in Boston.
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Hashtag Activism, book review: A sign of the times

In Hashtag Activism, Sarah J. Jackson, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School, feminist scholar and ‘misogynoir’ coiner Moya Bailey, and Northeastern University associate professor Brooke Foucault Welles, tell the stories of a number of these movements, beginning in 2009.
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This sheriff said he wouldn’t respond to calls at the county’s library, after it expressed support for BLM

But data has shown that Black Americans are at a greater risk of being killed by police, despite being less likely to pose an objective threat to law enforcement, according to research by Northeastern University Professor Matt Miller.
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Cannabis advocates lose last-ditch equity effort

Despite the struggles of this session, Lindsay said EONs would work with Northeastern University in the coming months to press for equity at the local level. 
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Editorial: Local news is the key to a strong democracy

In reaction to those cuts, state Rep. Lori Ehrlich, D-Marblehead, and Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University, came up with the idea more than a year ago to form a state commission. 
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Coronavirus child-care crisis will set women back a generation

Alicia Sasser Modestino is an associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University, where she studies issues related to gender and the labor market.
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Google Is Helping Its Workers Cope With Bad Government

For one thing, all-remote teams often work better than partially remote teams, says Barbara Larson, a professor at Northeastern University who studied geographically dispersed teams long before they became pandemic-necessary.
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Feel like Alexa’s listening to you? This new gadget could stop it

However, Alexa and other A.I. devices like it can be falsely activated by a variation of your wake word, or even from your TV, a study from Northeastern University and Imperial College London found.
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Should College Sports Get the Ax?

In addition to narrowing the educational opportunities afforded to individual students, cutting an arts program or a varsity sport threatens the health of those disciplines for the rest of society. If we lose collegiate rowing, the sport as a whole will be damaged. As guarantors of a living cultural trust, higher education has a duty […]
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Can Guaranteed Income Help Americans Escape Poverty?

A 2019 poll by Gallup and Northeastern University found that 43 percent of Americans supported UBI to help people displaced by automation, and three fourths of those would pay higher taxes to fund it.
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NIST study finds that masks defeat most facial recognition algorithms

But crucially, NIST didn’t take into account systems designed specifically to identify mask wearers, like those from Chinese company Hanwang and researchers affiliated with Wuhan University. In an op-ed in April, Northeastern University professor Woodrow Hartzog characterized masks as a temporary technological speed bump that won’t stand in the way of increased facial recognition use in the age of […]