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May 29—Today's veteran: Jack McDevitt, 86 Born: Philadelphia Residence: Brunswick Service: Navy, 4 years, 4 months Rank: Lieutenant (j.g.) Duties: Communications specialist Duty stations: Japan, Washington D.C. and Newport, R.I. His story: Jack McDevitt thought he'd be an aviator when he enlisted in the Navy until the results of his vision test showed he was partially color blind. But Navy ...

When former Newton resident Tim Duncan and his wife were walking to the grocery store in May, they expected a leisurely stroll. Instead, Duncan, a Black man,...

Massachusetts Police Data Points to Racial Disparities in Arrests Records gathered from local police suggest in some communities, people who are Black or African American were arrested at disproportionately high rates, relative to their overall share of the population, according to a new analysis by NBC10 and students from Boston University’s Justice Media Computational Journalism co-lab. By Melissa Ellin, Kate McGowan and Bzu Shiferaw Published April 1, 2021 • Updated...

Massachusetts Police Data Points to Racial Disparities in Arrests © Provided by New England Cable News When former Newton resident Tim Duncan and his wife were walking to the grocery store in May, they expected a leisurely stroll. Instead, Duncan, a Black man, found himself staring at a gun. “We wanted to spend some quality time together,” Duncan said. “All hell broke loose after we turned the corner.” Newton police officers stopped Duncan and his wife while looking for a murder suspe...

INDIA New England News By Emily Arntsen News at Northeastern The violent riots at the Capitol were abetted and encouraged by posts on social media sites. But from a legal and practical standpoint, it’s often hard to hold social media companies responsible for their users, Northeastern professors say. Jack McDevitt, director of the Institute on Race and Justice, argues that many of the posts amount to hate crimes—and that tech companies should be held responsible for violen...

Unfit magazines use Thinkerbeat Reader to “chart… the authors that we thought did really well with a story submission.” But these are not stories they bought – six days ago they tweeted out a link to the list of stories they rejected. The page had names, titles, and a rating between one and five stars. One problem: none of the authors had given them permission to do so. SFWA issued a statement on Facebook warning about the practices in March. Nine months later, Longshot Press i...