According to data from the American Libraries Association, the number of books challenged in libraries statewide quadrupled between 2021 and last year. In this week's Comics Culture, we learn about the impact of banning books by talking about the commonly challenged, yet revered Maus, a comic about the Holocaust.

Quinn penned his band Mt. Joy's breakout hit in Boston, while he was an undergrad at Northeastern.

Dr. Nahid Bhadelia was in Washington D.C. for the last year as the senior policy advisor for the White House's Global COVID Response team. Now, she's back in Boston as the founder and current director of Boston University's Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research. There, she's studying how we all can be preparing for next pandemic.

Tufts University professor Nisha Iyer teaches "Applications in Engineering: Sci-Fi Bioengineering."

We look how Framingham is trying to fill their teacher shortage by depending on a federal visa program.

More than 6-million Black people traveled from the South to the North during the Great Migration, a period of 60 years in the 20th century. In New England, between 1950 and 1980, the number of Southern-born Blacks living in the region more than tripled. Their lives are the subject of a new book.

A new ADL report on Hate in the Bay State is not flattering for Massachusetts. The numbers show Massachusetts saw more white supremacist incidents than any state except Texas from 2021 to 2022, and hate crimes went up by 33 percent during that time as well.

Peter Karol and Bhamati Viswanathan of New England Law Boston join us to discuss.