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Jill Shah has been instrumental in the launch of Chelsea's universal basic income pilot program, which shows early signs of success.

The Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III doubt white America is ready to grapple with the horrors of slavery.

Rob Anderson, chef and co-owner of The Canteen, talks about how the pandemic has affected business.

An all-virtual option may benefit students with a health condition or who have thrived during remote learning at home.

Dr. Terri Bright gives tips on how to ease pet anxiety as we begin to return to the workplace.

Leonard Egerton and Clarrissa Cropper, who own the Roxbury business, said they were flooded with tens of thousands of book orders during the peak of last summer's Black Lives Matter protests.

What influences you in your daily life? Celebrities, influencers, late night show hosts? We opened the lines to discuss. It was Live Music Friday with the Boston Lyric Opera, ahead of a free pop-up "Street Stage" show in Roxbury this weekend. Bradley Vernatter, CEO and General Director of BLO, Haris Lefteri, creative director of Hibernian Hall, and musicians Angela Yam, Brett Hodgdon and Cornell Coley.GBH's Callie Crossley discussed the Tim Walz & JD Vance debate, and the call to bring back speeding tickets if we really want safer roads.Marcela Garcia, associate editor and columnist for the Boston Globe, discussed the private equity coming for your cats & dogs. NAACP's Michael Curry discussed how DEI pushback is coming to medical care, and the legislature moving on maternal health.Naturalist and author Sy Montgomery discussed how two mules sold at auction are actually endangered Przewalksi's horses (the last remaining truly wild horses on earth). We ended the show by talking about summer jobs and the memories that came from them with listeners.

Today:Andrea Cabral fills in for Margery. We talk with Imari Paris Jeffries of Embrace Boston about the politics of hope, and a need to fundamentally change our political habits – if you want to start eating better, you’ve got to stop buying potato chips.And, we subject you all to the New England jingles that live rent free in our brains. Who even gets those cars for kids? And what about Wachusett?

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