Cambridge
MIT hosts lecture tying global warming to Islamophobia
CAMBRIDGE — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted a lecture Monday that went where few lectures have gone before: the intersection of Islamophobia and global warming.
Culture
gender discrimination
Feds eye gender-discrimination evidence in Hollywood
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union says federal officials are investigating whether gender discrimination exists in Hollywood. Attorney Melissa Goodman said Wednesday the wide-ranging investigation into the industry's hiring practice is being conducted by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the
Cambridge
Harvard women protest ‘blacklist’ targeting single-sex clubs
CAMBRIDGE – Women in Harvard College sororities and other gender-exclusive organizations are fighting back after administrators at the Ivy League school announced that future students who join off-campus single-sex social groups will be banned from holding campus leadership posts and from pursuing prestigious post-graduate opportunities like Marshall and Rhodes scholarships. The
new england patriots
Tom Brady’s cookbook scores as fans gobble it up
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — It looks like a $200 price tag couldn't keep Tom Brady's fans from gobbling up the Patriots quarterback's new cookbook. The TB12 Nutrition Manual features 89 recipes and is described on the four-time Super Bowl champion's website as being
censorship
Facebook reportedly suppressed news from conservative sites
It's only fitting that Twitter should have listed "Former Facebook Workers" as trending, because Facebook initially did not. In fact, former Facebook workers say that the social media giant's managers instruct online curators to manipulate news feeds and trending lists to cut or leave
Donald Trump
Fiddling away black futures
Most black politicians, ministers, civil rights advocates and professionals support Hillary Clinton's quest for the presidency. Whoever becomes the next president, whether it's a Democrat or Republican, will mean little or nothing in terms of solutions to major problems that confront many black people. We'
Donald Trump
Macbeth and the tyranny of unchecked power
The month of May marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. His harrowing tragedy, Macbeth, depicts the fall of a once valiant general into a paranoid, murderous tyrant. In the play, Shakespeare warns his audience about the destructive force of unchecked power. He shows that tyrants abhor freedom;
Massachusetts
Rita Moreno: ‘Hamilton’ was inspiration for rapping Berklee speech
BOSTON (AP) — Rita Moreno says it was the hip-hop musical "Hamilton" that inspired her to bust a rhyme while delivering the commencement address at the Berklee College of Music.
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