BPR Full Show: Take a Vacation

Today on Boston Public Radio:

We begin the show by talking with listeners about going mask-free outdoors following Gov. Charlie Baker’s updated mask mandate.

Ali Noorani explains how the 2020 U.S. census could allow President Joe Biden to explore more channels for legal migration. Noorani is President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Immigration Forum. His latest book is "There Goes the Neighborhood: How Communities Overcome Prejudice and Meet the Challenge of American Immigration.”

Charlie Sennott talks about India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and rising COVID-19 cases in the country. He also shares his thoughts on President Biden’s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021. Sennott is a GBH News analyst and the founder and CEO of The GroundTruth Project.

Bob Thompson recaps his most memorable TV moments of the week, from W. Kamau Bell’s “United Shades of America” to Jimmy Kimmel’s interview with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. Thompson is the founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture and a professor of television and popular culture at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III share their thoughts on Republican Senator Tim Scott’s rebuttal to President Biden’s joint address to Congress. Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist, the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail, and a visiting researcher in the Religion and Conflict Transformation Program at the Boston University School of Theology. Price is an executive director of the Institute for the Study of the Black Christian Experience at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Together, they host GBH’s All Rev’d Up podcast.

Christopher Muther talk about the spike in booking rates for summer, and updates us on Iceland’s decision to open its borders to fully vaccinated Americans. Muther is a travel writer and columnist for the Boston Globe.

We wrap up the show by asking listeners what they thought about a national vacation week.