Today on Boston Public Radio:

– Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone discussed his Friday decision to put a hold on phase three reopening in his city.

– Former Suffolk County Sheriff and Secretary of Public Safety Andrea Cabral discussed a federal appeals court's decision to vacate the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

– We opened lines to talk with listeners about the appeals court's decision to vacate Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence.

– Reverends Irene Monroe and Emmett Price, hosts of WGBH’s All Rev’d Up, talked about why they feel former Vice President Joe Biden ought to pick a Black woman as his VP candidate and weighed in on the demolition of a Nelson Mandela mural in Roxbury.

– TV expert Bob Thompson discussed controversy around an allegedly toxic workplace culture at “Ellen,” and reviewed Beyonce’s “Black King” visual album and HBO’s documentary “The Weight of Gold.”

– Boston Medical Center’s Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett talked about the state of COVID in both Mass. and the U.S., and responded to listener questions and comments.