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How community fridges continue to fight food insecurity across the commonwealth
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the national hunger crisis across the country. In Massachusetts, the number of households struggling with food inse…
2 years, 6 months ago
Trump continues to signal he won't accept a loss in November
From immigration to reproductive rights, issues that ignited the country in the last presidential election will be re-litigated in the rematch betwee…
2 years, 7 months ago
The 'Queen of Jazz,' Ella Fitzgerald's legacy is celebrated in new book
How did Ella Fitzgerald become the legend she was?
That’s the question author Judith Tick asks and answers in her new biography on the famed vocalis…
2 years, 7 months ago
Why some Republicans are aligning with Latin American populists
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have officially clinched the required delegates for their Democratic and Republican presidentia…
2 years, 7 months ago
The island spirit of Puerto Rico is coming to Boston in an inaugural cultural tour
Greater Boston is home to one of the largest populations of Puerto Ricans. It's a local community that expanded by the thousands after World War II, …
2 years, 7 months ago
A local organization is tracing the lineage of enslaved Americans to their present-day ancestors
From the 1500s through the Civil War, more than 10 million Black men, women and children were enslaved in America.
Slavery deemed them property. They…
2 years, 7 months ago
A year of 'wins' for Asian American representation in movies and TV
In 1993, "The Joy Luck Club" was a surprise hit. The poignant story featuring an all-Asian cast broke barriers at the box office.
Would "The Joy Luck…
2 years, 7 months ago
New documentary shows how flight attendants fought to transform workplace, break gender barriers
In the 1950s, most single, white middle-class women were expected to marry and raise a family — much like their mothers before them.
But becoming a f…
2 years, 7 months ago
America has grappled with reparations for centuries. Will it happen in Boston?
Forty acres and a mule. That’s what was promised to thousands of the formerly enslaved in a post-Civil War nation. Since then, America has grappled w…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Genius Next Door: Harvard's Imani Perry on the history and culture forged by Black Americans
Editor's note: This episode originally broadcast November 24, 2023.
When the MacArthur Foundation named its class of 2023 “genius grant" fellows last…
2 years, 8 months ago