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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.

The art of making sushi dates back to 15th century Japan, and master sushi chefs can train for more than a decade before rolling for the masses. Boston chef Joe Gatto offers us a quick tutorial on how to roll sushi so you can learn the basics and bring them into your kitchen.

Professors Kellie Carter Jackson and Kerri Greenidge discuss the challenges facing Massachusetts colleges and universities as efforts to edit or censor Black history emerge across the country.