Local Harvard changes course, offers fellowship to rights activist Kenneth Roth Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch's executive director, speaks during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, Nov. 1, 2018. Lee Jin-man / AP, File BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University announced Thursday that it plans to offer a fellowship to a leading human rights activist after its initial denial sparked widespread criticism. Kenneth Roth, who was the executive director of Human Rights Watch, or HRW, until last year, was recruited by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy to become a fellow and he accepted. But a...