Today on Boston Public Radio:
We began the show by talking with listeners about a Stoughton High School student who was suspended for protesting the school district's ban on pride flags and Black Lives Matter flags.
Juliette Kayyem discussed massive flight delays and cancellations after the Federal Aviation Association (FAA) reported an outage of its Notice to Air Missions System. Kayyem is former assistant secretary for Homeland Security under President Barack Obama, and the faculty chair of the homeland-security program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Her latest book is "The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters."
Corby Kummer talked about the announcement that Danish restaurant Noma, often regarded as the best restaurant in the world, will close at the end of 2024. Kummer is the executive director of the Food and Society policy program at the Aspen Institute, a senior editor at The Atlantic and a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.
Jared Bowen weighed in on the return of the Golden Globes after multiple scandals involving racism, corruption and sexual assault. Bowen is GBH's Executive Arts Editor. He hosts Open Studio with Jared Bowen on GBH Channel 2.
Eric Deggans shared his favorite television shows of 2022, from "Abbott Elementary" to "We Need to Talk About Cosby." Deggans is NPR’s TV critic as well as a contributor to NBC, MSNBC and Boston Public Radio. He’s also the author of “Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation.”
Kenneth Griffith, Jacob Hiser, Mara Stein and Jean-Caleb Belizaire of Boston Children's Chorus joined us for an in-studio performance ahead of their “Becoming King: 20th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute Concert” at Boston Symphony Orchestra. Griffith is a conductor and Associate Director of Choirs for the Boston Children's Chorus. Hiser is the collaborative pianist for the Boston Children's Chorus. Stein and Belizaire are members of the Boston Children's Chorus. For tickets to Monday’s “Becoming King: 20th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute Concert” at Boston Symphony Orchestra, go to BostonChildrensChorus.org.
We ended the show by talking with listeners about a recent string of airline fiascos, from surging ticket prices to last-minute cancellations.
