Today on Boston Public Radio:
We began the show by talking with listeners about the holiday shopping season.
Michael Curry discussed Gov. Charlie Baker's administration’s $130 million health worker loan repayment program, and Boston schools losing approximately 15,000 Black students in the past 20 years. Curry is president and CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers. He’s also a member of the National NAACP Board of Directors, where he chairs the board’s Advocacy & Policy Committee. He recently has been named to Governor-elect Maura Healey’s transition team.
Charlie Sennott updated us on massive protests in major Chinese cities over COVID-19 measures, and pressure from Congress to track weapons aid to Ukraine. Sennott is the editor-in-chief of The GroundTruth Project, and is a GBH News analyst.
Richard Blanco highlighted work published by local bookseller Beacon Press. Blanco is the fifth presidential inaugural poet in United States history, the first poet laureate of Miami-Dade County, and author of “How to Love a Country.”
The Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III talked about far-right and evangelical responses to the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs, and shared their thoughts on whether it’s possible to celebrate the principles of Thanksgiving while acknowledging harm against Indigenous communities. Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist and the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail. Price is founding pastor of Community of Love Christian Fellowship in Allston, and the Inaugural Dean of Africana Studies at Berklee College of Music. Together they host the “All Rev’d Up” podcast.
Lizzie Post, great-great-granddaughter of author and socialite Emily Post, joined us to share her 21st century guide to etiquette, “Emily Post’s Etiquette: The Centennial Edition.” Post is the author of “Emily Post’s Etiquette: The Centennial Edition,” and of “Higher Etiquette,” a guide to the world of cannabis.
We ended the show by talking with listeners about holiday tipping etiquette.
