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Join hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan for a smart local conversation with leaders and thinkers shaping Boston and New England. To share your opinion, email bpr@wgbh.org or call/text 877-301-8970 during the live broadcast from 11a.m. - 2 p.m. Join us live at our Boston Public Library studio every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. We stream every day on YouTube.com/GBHNews.

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The Revs Debate Racist Language

Irene Monroe and Emmett Price reflected on the use of terms like "cake walk," and even "picnic" in everyday American speech.

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Bob Thompson: How Movies Are Changing Amid The Pandemic

Instead of premiering in theaters, the live action adaption of Mulan has been released on Disney+, but for a fee.

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Richard Blanco On Poet Dorianne Laux

Blanco described Laux as "subtly powerful."

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Politico's Stephanie Murray On Mass. Senate Race: 'It's Expensive, It's Ugly, And The Stakes Are Very High'

"The Massachusetts Playbook" author called in to Boston Public Radio to discuss the latest headlines in Mass. politics.

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Juliette Kayyem: America Won't Start Feeling 'Normal' Until Late 2021

Rates of infections will increase until a vaccine or a change in leadership arrives, Kayyem said.

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Nia Grace Discusses Boston Black Restaurant Month

The initiative to encourage diners to visit Black-owned restaurants is being led by the Boston Black Hospitality Coalition.

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Margery Eagan

Margery Eagan is the co-host of 89.7 WGBH’s midday program Boston Public Radio. She has worked with co-host Jim Braude for 18 years, first doing a TV show together at NECN then a radio show at WTKK. The duo came to WGBH in 2013.

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Jim Braude

Jim Braude

Jim Braude

Jim Braude is the co-host of Boston Public Radio.During law school, Jim ran a small retail business in Provincetown (HUBE - Help Us Break Even!). He started his professional career as a legal services lawyer in the South Bronx handling housing and prisoners’ rights cases. He was the founder and first president of the National Organization of Legal Services Workers, a union representing staff in civil legal offices for the poor in 35 states. NOLSW helped lead the fight to preserve the national program when President Reagan proposed its abolition.

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