Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell said the unit reflects a broader effort by her office to preserve the state's existing gun control laws, including its ban on assault weapons.

Plus, a look at the past and future of Roxbury College. And, is Joe Mazzulla the right person to lead the Celtics into the future?

Plus, we talk with a local author about how going to school is often an act of resistance for Black kids in America. Later, we revisit a conversation with local author and national celebrity Celeste Ng.

In his new memoir School Clothes, local author and professor Jarvis Givens collects these memories of going to school from Black children in America, past and present. Through them, he finds a common theme: that going to school, no matter what that looks like, was and still is an act of resistance. Jarvis Givens joins us to discuss.

The planned move comes after a fatal police shooting last month.

We talk with Boston Herald reporter Gayla Cawley, transit advocate Chris Dempsey and WBUR's "The Common" daily podcast host Darryl C. Murphy about what's wrong with the MBTA, and how to fix it. And are Gov.  Maura Healey's promises to rehabilitate the embattled agency realistic?

Massachusetts ended the practice of slavery in 1783. But as author and historian Jacqueline Jones points out in her new book, "No Right To An Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era," while the city didn't practice slavery after that point, it didn't practice equality either.

If your job is to make people laugh, how do you do it during devastating current events? Resident comedians Bethany Van Delft and Ken Reid walk us through the tough terrain where tragedy meets comedy.

Plus, a look at how the Civil War impacted the lives Black Bostonian, and two local comedians on navigating the borderland where tragedy meets comedy.

We hear Kellie Carter Jackson, associate professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, on how society's tendency to oversimplify complex historical figures undermines our ability to understand these people's contributions and significance.