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"I think that we feel solid here in Massachusetts with our LGBTQ rights," she said.

Health officials have warned of a potential outbreak after a person infectious with measles visited Disneyland recently.

A new exhibition paints a vivid picture of the Boston Massacre through eyewitness accounts.

In "Catch and Kill," Ronan Farrow describes how Harvey Weinstein used his influence to suppress reports of his sexual assaults.

The former Suffolk County Sheriff said she isn’t alarmed by a new report from CourtWatch MA.

Critics think that collecting plastics on the surface of the ocean might pose a problem for sea creatures living in the collection zone.

Today on Boston Public Radio: Rep. Seth Moulton shares his thoughts on President Joe Biden’s announcement that he would withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021. He also talks about potential cross-country high speed rail stemming from President Biden’s infrastructure plan. Congressman Moulton represents Massachusetts’ 6th Congressional district. Next, we open the phone lines, asking listeners whether they’d give up their cars if the U.S. invested in high speed rail infrastructure. Juliette Kayyem talks about the Capitol Police inspector general Michael A. Bolton’s findings in an investigation on how the Capitol Police handled the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. She also discusses the recent increase in gun violence across the U.S. Kayyem is an analyst for CNN, former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security and faculty chair of the homeland security program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Patricia Wen discusses the Boston Globe’s Spotlight investigation, which found that multiple Boston hospital board CEOs have been moonlighting on corporate boards. She also speaks about the Globe’s reporting of the child sexual abuse allegations against ex-police officer and union leader Patrick Rose. Wen is the editor of the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team. Art Caplan weighs in on federal officials’ decision to pause the administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, and explains how it could increase vaccine hesitancy. Caplan is the Drs. William F and Virginia Connolly Mitty Chair, and director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU School of Medicine. TJ and Hadley Douglas talk about how they kept their South End wine store, the Urban Grape, afloat during the pandemic. They also share their experiences over the past few months as the death of George Floyd prompted calls for racial justice and equity. TJ Douglas is the founder and CEO of the Urban Grape. Hadley Douglas is the founder and CMO of the Urban Grape. We end the show by asking listeners what hobbies they’ve picked up during the pandemic.

Today on Boston Public Radio: We begin the show by talking with listeners about vaccine hesitancy in the wake of the U.S. government pulling the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Trenni Kusnierek shares her thoughts on Minnesota sports teams postponing their games after the death of Daunte Wright. She also talks about Julian Edelman’s retirement announcement, and explained what it means for the Patriots. Kusnierek is an anchor and reporter for NBC Sports Boston, and a weekly Boston Public Radio contributor. Karim Hajj previews the FRONTLINE documentary film American Insurrection, which looks into the rise of far-right violence across the U.S. Hajj is a producer for FRONTLINE. He helped produce American Insurrection in collaboration with ProPublica and UC Berkley’s Investigative Reporting Program. You can watch American Resurrection on April 13 at 10 p.m. EST on your local PBS station. Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett discusses U.S. federal health officials’ decision to pause the administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after six women developed rare blood clots. She also answers listeners’ questions. Gergen Barnett teaches in the Department of Family Medicine at Boston Medical Center and Boston University Medical School. John King updates us on the latest political headlines, from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s briefing on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to the trial of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin. King is CNN's Chief National Correspondent and anchor of "Inside Politics,” which airs weekdays and Sunday mornings at 8 a.m. We wrap up the show by asking listeners if they’ve found their favorite products dwindling in stores due to pandemic shortages.

Today on Boston Public Radio: E.J. Dionne weighs in on President Joe Biden’s formation of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. He also shares his thoughts on calls for Justice Stephen Breyer to resign. Dionne is a columnist for The Washington Post and a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. His latest book is "Code Red: How Progressives And Moderates Can Unite To Save Our Country.” Next, we open the phone lines, talking with listeners about local government transparency in the wake of a Boston Globe article detailing the child sexual abuse allegations against ex-Boston Police officer and union leader Patrick Rose. Charlie Sennott discusses increasing unrest in Northern Ireland, and President Biden’s return to Iran nuclear deal talks. Sennott is a GBH News analyst and the founder and CEO of The GroundTruth Project. Christopher Kimball previews his latest Milk Street cookbook, “Tuesday Nights Mediterranean: 125 Simple Weeknight Recipes from the World's Healthiest Cuisine.” Kimball is the founder of Milk Street, a food media company which produces Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Magazine, He’s also the host of Milk Street Radio and Milk Street TV. Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett Price talk about the death of Daunte Wright, and the ongoing trial of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin happening just miles away. They also share their thoughts on the reluctance of white Evangelicals to get vaccinated. 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 then ask listeners how they felt about plant-based alternatives to meat. Latanya Sweeney discusses the prevalence of racial bias in popular search engines, and calls for more proactive responses to racial bias from tech giants. Sweeney is the Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology at the Harvard Kennedy School and in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of Technology Science, and the director and founder of the Data Privacy Lab. Sweeney appears in the NOVA documentary short, “Search Engine Breakdown,” on Wednesday night at 10:30 p.m. ET.

Today on Boston Public Radio: We start off the show by talking with listeners about the CDC’s updated guidelines on surface cleaning. Dolores Huerta discusses her historical work in labor and civil rights, and the current issues facing agricultural and farm workers today. She also argues for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Huerta is the co-founder of the United Farm Workers. Emily Rooney weighs in on the multiple defamation lawsuits filed by Dominion Voting Systems. She also touches on global vaccine equity, and shared her famous list. Rooney is host of Beat the Press, which you can watch Friday nights at 7 p.m. Andy Ihnatko updates us on the latest tech headlines, from the Supreme Court’s decision on whether former President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking people on Twitter to the recent Facebook data leak. Ihnatko is a tech writer and blogger, posting at Ihnatko.com. Corby Kummer talks about the Aspen Institute’s updated safety guidelines for restaurant workers. He also calls for free school breakfasts and lunches, and an end to school lunch debt. 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. Callie Crossley discusses Vogue’s feature of poet Amanda Gorman, and the death of Prince Philip. She also previews this week’s edition of Under the Radar. Crossley hosts GBH’s Under the Radar and Basic Black. We wrap up the show by asking listeners whether they’ve had an increase in animal encounters throughout the pandemic.

For the past seven months, the Aspen Institute's Food and Policy Program has been working to assemble a comprehensive guide for safe indoor dining. As of this week, that guide is officially out and free to the public. On Friday, the organization’s director, food writer Corby Kummer, joined Boston Public Radio to talk about his hopes for how it’ll impact safe dining as restaurants work to get back to a form of quasi-normalcy. “This is meant to be a nationally [applicable], easy to use, easy to post guide for all restaurant owners, managers, workers and diners, as a way of feeling safe as you go back to dining indoors,” he explained. The guide includes the center's Diner Code of Conduct, which was initially released back in December. It’s a simple, straightforward checklist of commitments diners can make to ensure the safety of restaurant staff, and anyone looking to enjoy a meal indoors without the risk of contracting COVID-19. But the 74-page guide, Kummer noted, also includes a host of other useful information for restaurant workers and potential patrons. "It’s full of common sense steps that every restaurant needs to take – especially right now,” he said. “Because all cities are reopening, they’re trying to reopen, and we want to help restaurants and city health localities prevent a shutdown again.” Kummer is a senior editor at The Atlantic, an award-winning food writer, and a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition and Policy.