Today on Boston Public Radio:
E. J. Dionne shared his thoughts on President Joe Biden’s approval rating and first 100 days in office. Dionne is a columnist for The Washington Post and a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. His latest book is "Code Red: How Progressives And Moderates Can Unite To Save Our Country.”
Next, we opened the phone lines, asking listeners how they feel about sending their kids back to school.
Charlie Sennott talked about Biden’s decision to officially recognize the massacre of Armenians during World War I as a genocide and the Biden administration’s Leaders Summit on Climate. He also discussed the Groundtruth Project’s podcast on the 50th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers and its upcoming conference on the legacy of Daniel Ellsberg in partnership with UMass Amherst. Sennott is a GBH News analyst and the founder and CEO of The GroundTruth Project.
Jenifer McKim discussed “Unseen,” a series from the GBH News Center for Investigative Reporting that looks at the boys and young men lured into the sex trade. McKim is an investigative reporter at GBH News.
The Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III shared their thoughts on faith leaders’ responses to the Derek Chauvin trial verdict. They also talked about vaccine hesitancy among Evangelical Christians. Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist, the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail and a visiting researcher in the Religion and Conflict Transformation Program at the Boston University School of Theology. Price is executive director of the Institute for the Study of the Black Christian Experience at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Together they host GBH’s All Rev’d Up podcast.
Meredith Goldstein previewed her new YA book, “Things That Grow,” and talked about the state of romance and relationships during the pandemic. Goldstein is an advice columnist and features writer for The Boston Globe. Her advice column, Love Letters, is a daily dispatch of wisdom for the lovelorn that has been running for more than a decade. She also hosts the Love Letters podcast.
We ended the show by talking with listeners about returning to the silver screen.
