The PowerPLAY Show Presents Fathers Speak

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. 

Un(re)solved Episode 5: The Future

Listen to the final episode of the #Un(re)solved podcast, a five-part investigation of civil rights era cold case murders, produced by Frontline PBS in collaboration with Northeastern Law's Civil Rights & Restorative Justice Project.

That Text You’re Getting Is a Hoax. Trump Is Not Calling for a National Quarantine.

There’s been a troubling lack of consistency in messaging and policy from Washington and that helps to sow the seeds of rumors,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells Mother Jones. “Trust is an absolutely critical ingredient to an effective public health response. If people don’t trust the leadership, that’s a bad situation. Unfortunately, we’re in that bad situation.”

What Are So-Called Deaths of Despair? Experts Say They're on the Rise

If we had easier and more affordable access to high-quality, evidence-based physical and mental health care, many, many fewer people would die, Jeremiah Goulka, a researcher and senior fellow at Northeastern Law’s Health in Justice Action Lab, tells Newsweek. "And it would also reduce the stigma toward seeking treatment for a lot of the problems that fall into the bucket of deaths of despair."

Fifty Years On, Title IX’s Legacy Includes Its Durability

Professor Libby Adler tells The New York Times that Title IX could be open to interpretation on the issue of transgender athletes and other classes not explicitly defined in the language: “It’s that elasticity or indeterminacy that makes it unlikely to be struck down, but much more likely to be interpreted in ways that are consistent with the politics of the judges we have.”