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

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

Blanco described Laux as "subtly powerful."

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

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

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

Today:Food policy analyst Corby Kummer discusses the new "dirty dozen" list of grocery store items laden with pesticides.And, Michael Curry, head of the Mass League of Community Health Centers, discusses a new proposal for the shuttered Carney Hospital in Dorchester to be repurposed as a training facility for nurses.

BPR Full Show 6/11: Protesting Feels Different

Today: A new report shows how, throughout its history, Massachusetts failed thousands of disabled residents living in institutions, and then tried to cover their tracks with bureaucratic stonewalling decades later.GBH’s Megan Smith joins alongside Alex Green, vice-chair of the commission behind this report. And, naturalist Sy Montgomery is back to talk about axolotls, as researchers at Northeastern look into whether humans could ever tap into their secrets around limb regeneration.

BPR Full Show 6/10: Fact From Fiction

Today:Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett of the Boston Medical Center joins to discuss the latest medical headlines.And, ahead of this year’s Embrace Ideas Festival, we talk with Embrace Boston CEO Imari Paris Jeffries. Plus, joining Imari both at the festival – and today’s show – Giselle Byrd. She’s the first Black trans woman to lead a regional theatre company in the United States at Boston’s The Theater Offensive.