GBH News anchor Henry Santoro offered his three playlist picks, all of which take on a common theme: protest songs.

“Eephus,” named after the iconic off-speed curveball, is Carson Lund’s feature-length debut.

The GBH BPL studio will host Outspoken Saturdays, a spoken word poetry event for emerging artists. Every first Saturday of the month, the series will be created in collaboration with spoken word artist Amanda Shea. Join us!

Registration is encouraged for this free event.

Pierre Terjanian will be the 12th director in the museum’s 155-year history.

The president of the state’s Museum of African American History, which has locations in Boston and on Nantucket, is worried about the president’s call to reframe history.

"All American music is really rooted in the blues," says singer Farayi Malek.

“The Grove” and “Gatsby” received 10 nominations apiece.

This week’s music takes us across the globe, from Boston to Nigeria to Honduras.

Prize-winning historian Matthew Lockwood looks at the impulse to explore, the travels of Pocahontas, Columbus, Sacagawea, and Captain Cook alongside others who rightfully deserve the title of “explorers” including immigrants and fugitive slaves.

According to Lockwood, people of every background imagine new worlds. The impulse to seek new places is universal to humanity. In his new book, “Explorers,” he unfurls a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked travelers spanning forty centuries and six continents. His illustrated talk will share the stories of such seekers as David Dorr, born into slavery in New Orleans who embarked on a Grand Tour or Europe and Egypt, and the Viking female voyager Gudrid Far-Traveler, who sailed to North America in 1000 AD; among other pioneers.

“The goal is to kind of share a new way to move the body,” says founder Kim Holman. “To discover what it means to give yourself permission and maybe take some notes on physical autonomy.”