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The “Black Panther” and “42” star died Friday from colon cancer.

The former Suffolk County Sheriff commended protesting athletes for using their platform to send a message about racial justice.

On the eve of the Republican National Convention, President Trump announced an emergency authorization for plasma treatment of COVID-19.

The senator said voters who still haven’t sent in their ballots should consider dropping them off directly at their city or town clerk’s office.

Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III said many liberals living in predominantly white neighborhoods around Boston need to do more to substantively diversify their communities.

Dr. Robbie Goldstein presents himself as a progressive hopeful and said he thinks he better represents a district that has changed since Lynch was elected

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Thursday, February 28th, 2019.

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Tuesday, February 26th, 2019. Art Caplan, the director of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center, discussed Trump's proposal for dealing with drug dealers and the future of tackle football. Caplan is also a Drs. William F and Virginia Connolly Mitty chair and the co-host of the *Everyday Ethics *podcast. Boston Globe Columnist, Alex Beam, whose latest book is “The Feud: Vladimir Nabakov, Edmund Wilson and the End of a Beautiful Friendship,” was joined by syndicated religion columnist and the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail Reverend Irene Monroe, to talk about the "Autobiography of Malcom X" for this month's BPR book club. Patriots owner Robert Kraft is being charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution from a message parlor in Jupiter, Florida. We opened the lines to hear how these charges will impact your opinion of the Patriots and of Kraft. Attorney General Maura Healey joined us to take our questions and yours. CNN’s Chief National Correspondent John King called into to give us a preview of tomorrow's Michael Cohen hearing. King is also the host of* Inside Politics*, which you can catch Sunday mornings at 8:00 and weekdays at noon. Carolyn Beeler, the environment reporter for The World, called us from Antarctica, where she’s embedded with the research vessel the Nathaniel B. Palmer, which is on expedition to Thwaites Glacier.

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Monday, February 25th, 2019. Jennifer Nassour, former chairman of the MassGOP and COO of ReflectUS, and Steve Kerrigan, president and co-founder of the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund and former CEO of the DNC, joined us to talk about the latest political headlines and preview Michael Cohen testimony on Wednesday. Charlie Sennott, WGBH news analyst and the founder of the GroundTruth Project, discussed President Trump's peace summit with North Korean leader Kim Jung Un in Vietnam this week. Roger McNamee, the founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners, talked about his new book, * Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe* Keith Lockhart, Boston POPS Conductor, previewed the upcoming season of the POPS. Irene Monroe,syndicated religion columnist, the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail, a visiting researcher in the Religion and Conflict Transformation Program at Boston University School of Theology, and Emmett Price, professor and founding executive director of the Institute for the Study of the Black Christian Experience at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, talked about the recent Vatican summit on the church's legacy of sexual abuse. Robert Thompson, founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture and a trustee professor of television and popular culture at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse, talked about the Oscars and what to watch this week. We opened the lines to hear what you thought about last night's Oscars.

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Friday, February 22nd, 2019. Rep. Ayanna Pressley joined us to talk about how she is fighting against Trump’s emergency declaration. President of the Boston Public Library David Leonard and the founder of the internet archive Brewster Kahle talked about their joint effort to digitize the library’s record collection. The host of WGBH’s Beat The Press Emily Rooney talked about the owner of the Patriots Robert Kraft being charged with soliciting prostitutes. Michael Norton, a Harold M. Brierley professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School, talked about his most recent study that shows hostile moderators are more effective than kind ones. His latest book is* Happy Money, the Science of Happier Spending.* Shirley Leung, interim editorial page editor for the* Boston Globe,* discussed the latest news about the Wynn casino. Callie Crossley, the host of *Under The Radar *on WGBH, discussed the recent privacy violations and Facebook posts about Malia Obama. The human editors of the world’s only by cats for cats magazine, Feline, Molly Bales and Renessa Ciampa, joined us for the news quiz.

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Thursday, February 21st, 2019. Chuck Todd, the moderator of Meet the Press, called in to talk about the latest developments in the Mueller investigation. You can catch Meet the Press Sunday mornings at 10:30 on NBC Boston, that’s channel 10 on most providers. Todd is also the host of Meet the Press Daily on MSNBC, and the political director for NBC news. Congressman Stephen Lynch, chairman of the House of Representatives’ National Security Subcommittee, was in the studio to discuss immigration, among other national issues. Lynch represents the 8th district. Andrea Cabral, the CEO of Ascend, former Suffolk County sheriff and secretary of public safety, joined us to discuss the latest developments regarding actor Jussie Smollett's fabricated hate crime. Geoff Edgers, the national arts reporter for The Washington Post, *joined us to talk about his new book, *Walk This way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith and the Song that changed American Music forever Paul Reville, former state secretary of education of Massachusetts, discussed school funding formula reform. Reville is a professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education where he runs the Education Redesign Lab. Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University Julian Zelizer talked about his latest book, FAULT LINES: A History of the United States Since 1974. Zelizer is also a CNN Political Analyst. It is has become common place for parents to share to much about their children on social media. We opened the lines to hear if you are one of these oversharing parents or do you keep the lives of your kids private.