BPR Full Show: Let's All Go to the Lobby

Today on Boston Public Radio:

We start the show by opening phone lines, asking listeners for their thoughts on Acting Mayor Kim Janey’s historic appointment as the first Black person and first woman to serve as mayor of Boston.

Trenni Kusnierek shares her thoughts on gender inequity in the NCAA, and the popularity of Loyola University Chicago’s Sister Jean. She also discusses the barring of foreign spectators from the Tokyo Olympics. Kusnierek is a reporter and anchor for NBC Sports Boston, and a weekly Boston Public Radio contributor.

Alec MacGillis explains how Amazon is contributing to regional inequality and an increasing wealth gap. He also discusses his new book, “Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America.” MacGillis is a senior reporter for ProPublica, where he covers politics and government. His latest book is “Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America.”

Next, we ask listeners whether they thought vaccines should be mandatory.

Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett Price weigh in on students and scholars’ calls for Harvard to give reparations for slavery. They also talk about the fetishization and sexualization of Asian women in the context of the Atlanta massage parlor shootings. 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.

We wrap up the show by talking with listeners about the reopening of movie theater chains across the U.S.