White like me Interestingly, research by Northeastern University scholars Jack McDevitt and Jack Levin, show that most perpetrators are young males with shallow prejudices out for a thrill, rather than hardened bigots like Cobb.
MarketWatch People of Black and Asian descent up to twice as likely to get COVID as white people: meta-analysis Black and Hispanic respondents waited 4.4 days and 4.1 days on average for their test results, respectively, compared with white respondents’ 3.5 days and Asian Americans’ 3.6 days, according to a survey by researchers at Northeastern University, Harvard University, Rutgers University and Northwestern University.
An Arms Race in America: Gun Buying Spiked During the Pandemic. It’s Still Up. New preliminary data from Northeastern University and the Harvard Injury Control Research Center show that about a fifth of all Americans who bought guns last year were first-time gun owners. And the data, which has not been previously released, showed that new owners were less likely than usual to be male and white. Half were […]
Venture Beat The utopian promise and dystopian potential of real-time detection of police, fire, and medical emergencies A Northeastern University study released earlier this year found that Black people are twice as likely to die from police shootings as white people are.
Forward Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes Are Becoming More Violent Professor Jack Levin, co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University (and no relation to Brian Levin), said that white nationalism is much more likely to drive contemporary hate crime than years past, and that a growing number of assailants are members of organized white nationalist groups.
LSE US Centre Studying how law and order issues are framed has helped to uncover 2016’s shy Trump voters In new research, Kevin H. Wozniak, Brian R. Calfano, and Kevin M. Drakulich primed survey respondents with different images relating to policing. They find that that whites exposed to such images were more likely to state their preferred candidate, with more Independent whites revealing a preference for Trump when shown stop and frisk imagery. These results indicate, they write, […]
What really happened between Eartha Kitt and Lady Bird Johnson at that White House luncheon In 1968, the backlash to the Civil Rights Movement was growing, along with opposition to the war. “Even somebody like Martin Luther King was actually falling out of favor by 1968 because Martin Luther King had critiqued the Vietnam war and had critiqued colonialism and had critiqued capitalism,” said Dr. Sarah J. Jackson, author of Black Celebrity, […]
The Trace 3 million Americans carry loaded handguns every day, study finds The new research, authored by researchers at Harvard University, Northeastern University, the University of Washington, and the University of Colorado, paints a portrait of the American handgun carrier. He is most likely to be a conservative, middle-aged white male, living in a suburban Southern community, who was raised around guns and cites self-protection as the […]
Teenagers have stopped getting summer jobs – why? First, the summer-job bump has declined for all ethnicities in the last 40 years. Second, summer jobs are the province of the white and wealthy. Children of richer families are more likely to take part-time in summer jobs, according to a report from the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University. But black and […]
Boston Herald Atkins: Donald Trump’s unlikely win opens door for Oprah Winfrey A Winfrey victory would be no slam-dunk. Despite her 100-percent name recognition, she is long past her heyday, when her talk show ruled the airways. The last episode ran in 2011. “The question with her is, has she been out the spotlight too long?” said Northeastern University professor Alan Schroeder, the author of “Celebrity-in-Chief: How […]
The Week What happened to America under previous ‘hands-off’ presidents? Civil war and financial collapse. To his admirers, like Reagan and the business site CheckWriters, this shows that Coolidge “was no micromanager,” and his famous habit of “empowering his Cabinet officials” meant his “Roaring ’20s White House was never bogged down by process” and therefore “functioned like a well-oiled Model T Ford.” And that was probably true in his first […]
Summer jobs boost employment skills, academic aspirations, study finds Because the control group was more likely to be over age 16, white, and come from two-parent, English-speaking households, and therefore more likely to have job skills and higher educational goals, the results are conservative, said Alicia Sasser Modestino, the Northeastern University professor who coauthored the study with Trinh Nguyen, director of the Mayor’s Office […]