As a newly minted lawyer in 1961. Michael Meltsner was hired by Thurgood Marshall and his soon-successor, Jack Greenberg, to join the legendary legal team at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He fast became a vital player in the national civil rights movement, helping to shape legal strategy, arguing major cases, and making multiple appearances […]

Article 48 in the state’s constitution bans ballot questions from taking powers away from the treasury by specifically allocating funds. The scope of ballot questions are also limited — they cannot connect two seemingly unrelated things under a single proposal. Daniel Medwed, WGBH’s legal analyst, says opponents of the Fair Share Amendment plan to argue that RaiseUp Massachusetts’ […]

The alt-weekly provided “deep coverage on an almost neighborhood level,” says Dan Kennedy, an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston and a former media columnist at the now-defunct Boston Phoenix. They were “digging in much more than The Washington Post can do on a daily basis.”

Satchell Drakes and I discuss how they approach morality choices in games like The Walking Dead and talk to Dr. Casper Harteveld, an assistant professor of game design at Northeastern University, about using decision-making in games to expand the teaching of societal issues as well as use crowd-sourced player data to infer conclusions about human […]

“Starting with the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” says local media encyclopedia Dan Kennedy, of Northeastern University, “any meaningful restriction on the ownership of radio stations went out the window. So, you had massive corporate conglomerates buying up radio stations all over the country.” Which means that over the past two decades, Kennedy says, we’ve seen […]

Of all the good technological innovations that were supposedly going to rescue the news business from the bad technological innovations that had laid it low, perhaps none was more highly touted than Apple’s iPad.

Northeastern University professor David Choffnes offered a different approach to the technological question of monitoring net neutrality through bandwidth “throttling,” or, as he explained, the unequal distribution of bandwidth to users.

Most people expect that turning their phone’s location services off disables this sort of mobile surveillance. But the research conducted by Northeastern University researchers Guevara Noubir, Sashank Narain, Triet Vo-Huu, Ken Block and Amirali Sanatinia, in a field called “side-channel attacks,” uncovers ways that apps can avoid or escape those restrictions.

The majority of U.S. adults believe employers should pay for retraining if the implementation of AI caused job displacement, according to a survey from Gallup and Northeastern University of 3,297 U.S. adults. Respondents also would look toward the federal government to fund reskilling.

Gary Young, director of the health policy centre at Northeastern University, said: “Don’t discount Amazon’s ambition. Amazon has a certain way of looking at the world and a certain way of engaging consumers. They believe very firmly that they can do things better.”

Northeastern University journalism professor Laurel Leff also recently learned that a relative who had survived the Holocaust had altered her story. The author of “Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper”, Leff learned from archival records that her cousin, who had always maintained that she had been liberated from Bergen-Belsen, had […]

While fewer people are buying guns, people who do buy them are buying more than they ever have, according to statistical data. The average gun owner in the U.S. now possesses eight firearms, with half of the guns in the U.S. belonging to just three percent of the population, according to a recent Harvard and […]