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Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, said the Boston Police Department needs sustained internal pressure, along with increased funding, to become the force that the city deserves.

Ken Gloss, proprietor of Boston's Brattle Book Shop, said he wasn't sure what became of the woman who would eat pages out of the Douay-Rheims translation of the Bible.

New video affidavits from White's daughter and sister-in-law allege White's wife was the aggressor in alleged domestic violence.

A fungus that affects 10 percent of the cicada brood causes the insects to lose their genitals and become hypersexual.

The attorney general also said embattled Boston Police Commissioner Dennis White "should not have been put into this position."

The Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III speak about Floyd's legacy and whether the country has changed.

BPR Full Show 4/23: Don't Say Please & Thank You

Today: Embrace Boston’s Imari Paris Jeffries and Jenee Osterheldt of the Globe’s “A Beautiful Resistance” series and Everyone 250 join ahead of a major rally happening this Saturday to protest racial injustice happening on the federal level, while also commemorating 60 years since Martin Luther King Jr. led a very similar Freedom Rally here in Boston. And, some very funny figures in Boston’s comedy world join us ahead of a show at the Regent in Arlington tonight: Tony V, Lenny Clarke, Frank Santorelli and director Jordan Tofalo join us to talk about comedy.

Today:Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan College, was one of the first university presidents to stand up to federal pressure from the Trump Administration. We discuss the growing chorus following in his footsteps.And, a mother-son duo for the latest iteration of our segment “How Do You Two Know Each Other?” with Marianne Hughes, the first Executive Director with the Interaction Institute for Social Change, and documentary filmmaker Brendan Hughes -- whose podcast, "Divine Intervention" is out now.

Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University, discusses his 'case against cowardice' in the face of Trump's attacks on higher education.Brian McGrory, head of BU journalism, discusses the local reaction to the Pope's death, the latest with Steward Healthcare suing to claw back money from former vendors, and conservative radio callers voicing their displeasure of Trump's tariffs.Marianne Hughes, executive director of the Interaction Institute for Social Change and her son, Brendan Patrick Hughes, documentary filmmaker and podcaster, join for How Do You Two Know Each Other?Lynne Montesanto, publisher of Boston Magazine, discusses this year's Most Influential Bostonians list.CNN's John King discusses the Pope's death, the Supreme Court ruling on deportations, and more national headline

Today:Former Massachusetts public safety secretary Andrea Cabral discusses a federal judge holding the Trump administration in contempt over its defiance – The administration refuses to return a man wrongly deported to El Salvador.Then we talk about higher education with the College Uncovered podcast team, GBH’s Kirk Carapezza and the Hechinger Report’s Jon Marcus. Season 4 is out now.