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Plus, the latest Brilliant Boston series looks at teaching students how -- and whether -- to put a dollar value on a culture's way of life.

The class explores ways to quantify people's relationship to their environment.

We speak with leaders and volunteers of local nonprofits who work with Massachusetts youth.

Plus, how food can be used as a tool to combat disease.

The Massachusetts Black and Latino Legislative Caucus reports 25 members this year, up from 17 last year.

Plus, author Kerri K. Greenidge joins to discuss the checkered legacy of the Grimke sisters, the famous abolitionists who have a Boston bridge named after them.

Plus, we discuss ways Massachusetts can be more proactive when it comes to artist displacement.

We examine the legacy of Sarah and Angelina Grimke through the eyes of their enslaved family members. That legacy is the subject of a new book called "The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family." Author Kerri Greenidge joins us to talk about it.

As of a week ago Sunday, the state's minimum wage is $15 an hour. That's more than double the federal minimum wage. But is it actually enough to live in Massachusetts? We take a look at the gap between the minimum and living wage in this week's From the Newsroom.

Plus, Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest on nationally televised Monday Night Football last week. While Hamlin recovers, we discuss the NFL's public relations, ratings and viewer numbers, and the local implications for youth sports.