Everyone tells you to lose weight and eat healthy. But what does that really mean? We pored over a plethora of local studies to pinpoint the lifestyle habits that will make us happier all year long.

Sarah Jackson, a professor at Northeastern University whose research focuses on social movements, said the civil rights establishment embraces the “Martin Luther King-Al Sharpton model”—which emphasizes mobilizing people for rallies and speeches and tends to be centered around a charismatic male leader. But the younger activists are instead inclined to what Jackson called the “Fannie […]

For the first time in its 57-year history, the African Studies Association’s annual conference this year offered panels discussing the rising tide of Black Judaism—communities in sub-Saharan Africa and in the African Diaspora identifying themselves as descendants of Jews or practicing some form of Judaism. I attended the November conference along with 1,600 participants from […]

To understand how poorly the global arms trade is regulated, consider this: For a $70 billion industry that produces seven to eight million firearms annually, it loses one million weapons every year to arms traders like the notorious Viktor Bout (a.k.a. the Merchant of Death) who sold weapons to warlords and terrorists from the 1990s […]

As North Korea ratchets up its threats against the United States, promising “serious” consequences if Washington rejects its offer to help investigate the cyberattack against Sony Pictures, a local analyst is warning that terror groups worldwide now have an incentive to target major American companies.

‘The curve that sets everything straight” was how comedian Phyllis Diller once described the smile. And it’s true that there’s something charming, trustworthy and disarming about a smile – but this can be misleading. Dig a little deeper and you will understand a much less wholesome side. Because, ladies and gentleman, the smile is one […]

Georgia Power officials say the company has no records of the 1946 deaths of two black veterans at the hands of white conductors on its segregated Atlanta streetcar lines. Still, the utility said it has “worked diligently to build a culture of inclusion and respect for both our employees and customers,” and would continue to […]

We’ve written before about how the youngest generations are much more entitlement-minded than their older counterparts. One particular survey showed 51 percent of adults aged 18-24 believe everyone in an athletic competition should get a trophy — not just the winners. We dubbed them the “Participation Trophy Generation.” (It hasn’t stuck just yet, but we’re […]

Since 2007, Northeastern law students have documented about 350 racially motivated killings, often by piecing together obscure clues buried in government archives and newspaper clippings. It is painstaking work, aided by Northeastern journalism students, in pursuit of a simply stated but staggeringly ambitious goal: to identify every racially linked murder in the South between 1930 […]

Generation Z is headed to the polls for the first time this presidential election and the youth vote will likely prove critical. So Northeastern University surveyed more than 1,000 young people aged 16 to 19 to see where they stand on the issues. Seventy-one percent said they believe in free health care, 63 percent felt […]

The Boston Y also pioneered the idea of technical schools and night schools with their “evening institute,” which they spun off in 1916 as The Northeastern College of the YMCA — today, Northeastern University. “I joked with [Northeastern President] Joseph Aoun one time I said, ‘Joseph we birthed you,'” Washington said. “He laughs about it, […]

Peter Roby, an athletics director at Northeastern University who has described the stratification of college sports as a “monster,” said that Luck and his staff must remember that there are 1,000 institutions in the NCAA outside of the autonomous leagues. “The issues here are broader than just 65 schools,” Roby said. “The issues we face […]