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"Parkland Rising" follows students leading March For Our Lives, grieving parents and others who used the tragedy in Parkland to change the national conversation about gun reform.

"Saving American Cities" tells the history of the man who brought a brutal City Hall to Boston, leveled an entire neighborhood, and sparked an economic revival.

The new law requires women seeking an abortion to have a medical procedure performed that serves no medical purpose.

The man behind the Ice Bucket Challenge, which raised close to a billion dollars for ALS research, has died.

An art installation of a banana taped to a wall sold for $120,000. Then, another artist ate it off the museum wall.

The "Sesame Street" actor and puppeteer died on Sunday.

Travis Kalanick — the co-founder and ex-CEO of Uber who stepped down from the rideshare company — is bringing his new “ghost kitchen” company to Boston. CloudKitchen, which buys old warehouse buildings to split into commercial kitchen spaces that restaurants can rent out to produce food for third-party delivery services like Uber Eats and GrubHub, is headed to Roxbury’s Shirley Street. The Roxbury warehouse will have more than two dozen kitchen spaces available for rent by both local restaurants and national chains. And though the company assures restaurateurs that profits will soar, critics aren’t so keen. “There's huge amount of turnover in these places. The companies don't help [small businesses] out financially, and leave them hanging when they don't get sufficient orders,” food writer Corby Kummer said. “They're very bad deals for restaurants.” Tech companies like CloudKitchen, Kummer notes, are “almost certainly going to want to own everything,” such as menus and access to recipes. “The fact is, the tech company owns everything and all the intellectual property,” Kummer said. “You leave with nothing if it's not working out for you.” 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.

Today on Boston Public Radio: We begin the show by asking listeners their thoughts on the news of Elon Musk buying Twitter. Trenni Kusnierek talks about the Celtics playoffs run and mental health struggles among youth athletes. Kusnierek is a reporter and anchor for NBC Sports Boston, as well as a weekly Boston Public Radio contributor. Elle Simone Scott shares tips on how to make the perfect food board for hosting. Scott is Executive Editor and Inclusion Leader at America's Test Kitchen. She is also founder of the mentoring organization SheChef. Her recently released book is “Boards: Stylish Spreads for Casual Gatherings.” Corby Kummer discusses oversight issues with the Food and Drug Administration, Boston chef Tiffani Faison winning “Tournament of Champions” and MIT students creating an “Oreometer.” 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 previews the latest in local arts, including Huntington Theatre Company’s Elliot Norton Award Nomination for its production of Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” and “Too Fat for China,” a show about motherhood and adoption playing at the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown. Bowen is GBH’s executive arts editor and the host of Open Studio. John King updates listeners on the latest political headlines, including recent news from the Jan. 6 Committee and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. King is CNN's Chief National Correspondent and anchor of "Inside Politics,” which airs weekdays and Sunday mornings at 8 a.m. We end the show by asking listeners how they eat their Oreos.

Today on Boston Public Radio: EJ Dionne and Miles Rapoport talk about the low voter turnout in recent elections, arguing for mandatory voting as a part of Americans’ civic duty. Dionne is a columnist for the Washington Post and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Rapoport is a senior fellow at the Ash Center of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a former Connecticut secretary of state. Their new book is “100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting.” We then open the phone lines, talking with listeners about schmoozers in the workplace. Charlie Sennott discusses his experiences reporting from the Poland-Ukraine border in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Sennott is a news analyst for GBH, where he also heads up the GroundTruth Project. Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III share their thoughts on the Supreme Court case involving a former high school football coach who lost his job after praying with players on the field. Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist and the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail. Price is founding pastor of Community of Love Christian Fellowship in Allston, the Inaugural Dean of Africana Studies at Berklee College of Music. Together they host the “All Rev’d Up” podcast. Attorney General Maura Healey discusses ex-Boston Police Union President Patrick Rose’s guilty plea to child rape charges, and answers listeners’ questions during this month’s edition of “Ask the AG.”

Today on Boston Public Radio: We begin the show by asking listeners their experiences with recycling, and seeing if they can guess whether an item is recyclable or not. David Cash weighs in on the Biden Administration’s approach to climate, including on electric vehicles, limiting emissions and more. Cash is the EPA's Regional Administrator for Region 1, leading the implementation of the Biden-Harris environmental agenda in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and in 10 Tribal Nations. Callie Crossley discusses Syracuse police detaining an 8-year-old Black boy for stealing a bag of chips, and Former President Donald Trump’s campaign being ordered to pay around $1.3 million in legal fees to Omarosa Manigault Newman, former White House aide, following Trump’s legal complaint surrounding criticism of him in her book. Crossley hosts GBH’s Under the Radar and Basic Black. Shirley Leung talks about the current biotech bubble, Arthur Jemison, Mayor Michelle Wu’s new pick for chief of planning, and flight attendant crashpads in the city. Leung is a business columnist for the Boston Globe. David Abel explains his piece about special mice on Nantucket curbing the tick population, attitudes around the urgency of climate change and state climate action. David Abel is a climate reporter for the Boston Globe. Sue O’Connell discusses Ludlow parents suing a school over its affirmation of their trans child, and the right wing Twitter account Libs of TikTok, feeding anti-LGBTQ hate. O’Connell is the co-publisher of Bay Windows and South End News, and contributor to Current, on NBC LX and NECN. Sue O'Connell on BPR | April 22, 2022 We end the show by discussing a lottery winner in Methuen who decided to split the winnings with a shop owner who had done him a good deed.

Today on Boston Public Radio: We begin the show by asking listeners whether they think American kids are too coddled, in light of the new Netflix show “Old Enough!” in which Japanese toddlers run errands independently. Susan Yanow discusses the state of abortion rights in the U.S., stories of women arrested for at-home abortions and how people across the country can find abortion resources. Yanow a co-founder of the international nonprofit Women Help Women, which supports women across the world in accessing abortion medication. She’s the spokesperson for their U.S. based program SASS, or Self-Managed Abortion, Safe and Suppored. Andrea Cabral talks about the problems with no-knock police raids, and former Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia II soon heading to prison after multiple delays. Cabral is the former Suffolk County sheriff and Massachusetts secretary of public safety, and former CEO of the cannabis company Ascend. Andy Ihnatko updates listeners on the world of tech, including AI technology that can generate original images based on user descriptions, and a Russian soldier who stole AirPods, allowing the former Ukrainian owner to track his location. Ihnatko is a tech writer and blogger, posting at Ihnatko.com. Karla Hoyos and Henry Patterson share their experiences cooking for refugees at the Polish-Ukrainian border with World Central Kitchen. Hoyos is a Miami-based chef who ran the World Central Kitchen in Poland, as well as in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Patterson is the founder of Bel Canto, the consulting group ReThink Restaurants and Somerville restaurant incubator CWC, Inc. Jon Gruber made a case for why the U.S. needs to ramp up pandemic funding for both COVID-19 and future outbreaks. Gruber was instrumental in creating both the Massachusetts healthcare reform and the Affordable Care Act, and his latest book is “Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth And The American Dream.” We end the show by asking listeners their opinions on tipping.