Today on Boston Public Radio:
District Attorney Rachael Rollins responded to Republican attacks following a tied party-line vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee on her nomination for U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts. She also talked about her decision to move towards overturning a 50-year-old rape conviction, after the victim expressed worries about identifying the wrong perpetrator. Rollins is the Suffolk County District Attorney and nominee to be the state’s next U.S. Attorney.
Then, we asked listeners their thoughts on Facebook as the company comes under fire by whistleblower Frances Haugen.
Charlie Sennott talked about a partnership between over 150 investigative journalists to leak the Pandora Papers, which exposed financial secrets of some of the world’s most wealthy and powerful people. He also discussed the need for better immigration policy from President Joe Biden. Sennott is a GBH News analyst and the founder and CEO of The GroundTruth Project.
British Consul General Peter Abbott talked about opportunities for offshore wind energy partnerships between the U.S. and U.K., and the relationship between Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Abbott is the British Consul General to New England.
Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III debated the ethics of singing Amazing Grace and other songs with troubled histories, given that Amazing Grace was written by a slave trader. They also discussed a racist email sent to Black students at UMass Amherst. Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist, the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail and co-host of the All Rev’d Up podcast. Price is the founding pastor of Community of Love Christian Fellowship in Allston, the Inaugural Dean of Africana Studies at Berklee College of Music and co-host of the All Rev’d Up podcast.
Adam Reilly weighed in on the state of the mayor’s race, including Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley’s endorsement of City Councilor and mayoral candidate Michelle Wu, and who he thinks has a leg up in the historic election. Reilly is a reporter for GBH News, co-host of the Scrum politics podcast and co-host of Election 2021: Boston’s Race Into History on GBH 2.
We ended the show by asking listeners whether they enjoy apple picking as a fun fall activity — or decry its performativity — as October begins.
