WSJ Wonders: Did Silicon Valley Bank Die Because One Black Person Was on Its Board? For example, Black and Latinx people were “much more likely to receive high cost, high risk loans than white borrowers during the housing boom, even after controlling for credit scores, loan to value rations, subordinate liens, income, assets, expense ratios, neighborhood characteristics, and other relevant variables” in the lead to the 2008 housing crash, researchers […]
The J&J Rescue Mission Starts With a Choice David Lazer, a computer scientist at Northeastern University, told me his team has collected data showing that Black people are almost twice as likely to have received the J&J vaccine than white people, a disparity that doesn’t seem to be accounted for by preferences alone.
The Baltimore Sun Baltimore-area community leaders step up outreach efforts to encourage Black residents to get coronavirus vaccine These efforts come as research shows Black people are more likely to reject COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new study from Northeastern University, Harvard University/Harvard Medical School, Rutgers University and Northwestern University. It found that 33% of African American respondents “would not get the vaccine,” compared with 23% of white respondents, 10% of Asian American […]
WGBH Ta-Nehisi Coates’ eloquent, angry polemic on racism in the age of Trump For liberals and progressives trying to make sense of President Trump’s victory last November, the role of race has posed something of a dilemma. On the one hand, Trump’s racist rhetoric clearly played into pre-existing resentments on the populist right, thus boosting turnout among his more deplorable (to coin a phrase) supporters. On the other hand, if […]
Boston Herald Kabul suicide bomb kills 90 people Northeastern University professor Max Abrahms, who researches the strategic effectiveness of terrorism, suggested the attack was designed to encourage a U.S. exit from Afghanistan. “This appears to be a well-timed attack because the White House is weighing whether to send in more forces to Afghanistan. Attacks like this reduce the logic of the occupation … […]
Aaron Hernandez’s suicide: Were there warning signs? Richard Melloni Jr., a psychology professor and director of behavioral neuroscience at Northeastern University, said he was struck by video showing Hernandez’s rare display of tears last week when he was acquitted in the double murders. “Maybe his emotion was a sign of depression that was starting to rear its head,” said Melloni, who was […]
National Geographic Bizarre deep-sea ‘worm’ as long as an arm revealed Team leader Daniel Distel, a marine biologist at Northeastern University in Boston, plucked a specimen from the stink and packed it into a section of white PVC pipe, transporting it live several thousand miles to the lab of University of Utah medicinal chemist Margo Haygood. “Seeing Kuphus for the first time was a highlight of […]
What Newtown and Orlando have in common Law enforcement officials have described the shooting at the gay nightclub in Orlando as a terrorist act. The shooter expressed solidarity with Islamic State in a 911 call. “Terrorism is often said to have a political motivation. But take the politics out and they look a lot like other mass killings in the U.S.: hate-motivated acts […]
Forbes FBI can use dead suspects’ fingerprints to open iPhones — it might be cops’ best bet “Fingerprint evidence – unlike a password – is physical evidence that can be compelled with a court order, overriding the objections of an accused or the next of kin of an accused,” said Andrea Matwyshyn, Northeastern University professor of law and a visiting research collaborator at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. […]
‘Nut Country’ and ‘Right Out of California’ Tower is one of the more statesmanlike figures in “Nut Country,” Edward H. Miller’s well-researched and briskly written account of Dallas’s transformation from Democratic stronghold to “perfect test kitchen” of a new politics of Republican protest that combined the libertarian cry for “freedom” with the states’ rights model of constitutional order. A go-getting paradise with […]
Baseball’s culture clash: Vast majority of brawls involve differing ethnicities Alan Klein, a professor of sociology at Northeastern University in Boston who has written two books on Dominican baseball, said antagonism against a different ethnic group may be harbored within the clubhouse and come out against opponents on the field. “I think that’s more likely to come from white players than from Latin players,’’ said […]
The cold cases of the Jim Crow era IN March 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt received a letter from a desperate mother. Her son, who was black, had been killed two years earlier, his body pulled from a river near Pickens, Miss. “I am sending a contract in regards to the lynching of my son Willie Jack Heggard,” wrote Jane Heggard. “I have […]