Today on Boston Public Radio:
We started the show by opening the phone lines, asking listeners for their thoughts on acting Mayor Kim Janey’s historic appointment as the first Black person and first woman to serve as mayor of Boston.
Trenni Kusnierek shared her thoughts on gender inequity in the NCAA and the popularity of Loyola University Chicago’s Sister Jean. She also discussed the barring of foreign spectators from the Tokyo Olympics. Kusnierek is a reporter and anchor for NBC Sports Boston and a weekly Boston Public Radio contributor.
Alec MacGillis explained how Amazon is contributing to regional inequality and an increasing wealth gap. He also discussed his new book, “Fulfillment: Winning And Losing In One-Click America.” MacGillis is a senior reporter for ProPublica, where he covers politics and government.
Next, we asked listeners whether they thought vaccines should be mandatory.
The Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett Price weighed in on students and scholars’ calls for Harvard to enact reparations for slavery. They also talked about the fetishization and sexualization of Asian women in the context of the Atlanta massage parlor shootings. 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.
We wrapped up the show by talking with listeners about the reopening of movie theater chains across the U.S.
