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Emily Bazelon is the author of "Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration," a new book that examines prosecutorial power, and how that has affected the justice system for decades.

Another hate crime rattled a synagogue this weekend, leaving one woman dead and others injured. Reverend Irene Monroe and Reverend Emmett Price say this shooting fits into a pattern of white nationalist violence.

The secretary of state touted his success in keeping the state safe in 2016, and is confident he'll be able to do it again in the next election.

In response to the release of the redacted Mueller report, Rep. Ayanna Pressley has renewed her call to impeach President Donald Trump.

Following the release of the redacted Mueller report Thursday, Rep. Jim McGovern told WGBH News he “doesn’t trust” U.S. Attorney General William Barr’s assessment that there was “no collusion” between Russia and the Trump campaign in the lead up to the 2016 election.

A teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School is under investigation after a controversial panel involving the use of a racial slur.

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.

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