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Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III said nationwide demonstrations alone won’t be enough to end police violence.

Fajgenbaum has experience researching a disease with similar effects to COVID-19.

"Community organizers are community builders. They are not destroyers," Pressley said.

The Boston Globe business columnist said she expects most businesses to return more gradually than what's allowed by official guidelines.

"I'm just so upset, so angry, so scared, and worried," Crossley said.

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Today we broadcast live from the 114th NAACP National Convention, the first time the convention has returned to Boston since 1982. We started the show with Tanisha Sullivan, President of the NAACP Boston, and Michael Curry, CEO of Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers. Rep. Ayanna Pressley stopped by, along with Marty Walsh, the Bay State Banner’s Ron Mitchell and Mel Miller, Naia Butler-Craig, Imari Paris Jeffries, and more. Robert Kraft and Mayor Michelle Wu called in. We also spoke to GBH News reporters Paris Alston and Phillip Martin.