YMCA Program Takes On Fear Of Swimming In Boston's Black Communities
“We're all talking about different aspects of making sure that there is equity in the water,” says James Morton ’81, president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Boston.
“We're all talking about different aspects of making sure that there is equity in the water,” says James Morton ’81, president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Boston.
Joseph Feaster Jr. ’75 recently joined the PowerPLAY Podcast to raise awareness during Suicide Prevention Month and to give voice to those healing from the loss of a loved one.
Mother Jones digs deep into the law school’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and the efforts of Professor Margaret Burnham, Kaylie Simon ’11, Janeen Blake ’09 and other partners to uncover “new information about unsolved murders, push officials to set the record straight, and ask surviving family members what they need to heal.”
“The license between Pfizer and the Medicines Patent Pool is disappointingly limited to only 95 countries with just 53% of the world’s population, or 4.1 billion people,” Professor Brook Baker tell STAT.
“For people who are already incarcerated, of course we should be providing them with the highest level of care possible,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells The BostonGlobe. “But paying taxpayer funds to repurpose jail-like [facilities] into ‘treatment’ is not supported by science or civil rights concerns.”
As a contestant on New Hampshire Public Radio's Civics101 quiz, Professor Xander Meise was tested on her knowledge of American symbols. Listen back to hear how well she did!
Listen back: Professor Beth Noveck, director of the Burnes Family Center for Social Change and Innovation, discusses her new book, Solving Public Problems: A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World.
Listen back: On BYUradio’s Top of Mind, Professor Ari Waldman, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC), explains why Amazon's biometric systems are drawing concern from US lawmakers and privacy advocates.