In our first weekly "From the Newsroom" conversation, we check in with WBUR's Deborah Becker to hear updates on the latest happenings in and around the Mass & Cass neighborhood.

We speak with the team behind Company One's production of "Black Super Hero Magic Mama" and how the play is being brought to Boston classrooms.

In the summer of 1967, two little boys, Jeff and Tony Whittemore, wanted nothing more than to go to the World's Fair in Montreal.

A new documentary called "The House We Lived In," explores the life and recovery of one man with a traumatic brain following a mysterious fall in 2011. We speak with him and his son, as well as the film's director.

We hear about two films showing this weekend that have local ties, plus a conversation with the executive director of the festival about what it's like to be back at the theater.

Can you smell the popcorn? The Independent Film Festival Boston is back this year in person. Screenings started April 27 and go through Wednesday, May 4. We talk about how it's going, what's showing, and what it's like to be back in-person for the first time since 2019.

Plus, we visit the Cape Ann Museum for a special 400th anniversary celebration, and the Concord Museum, which is celebrating the life of local ornithologist William Brewster.

We hear from the curator at the Concord Museum about a new exhibit out now called "Alive With Birds" which examines the life and legacy of local ornithologist and conservationist William Brewster.

The original anti-slavery newspaper is re-imagined for the 21st century.

The school has promised $100 million to educational opportunities for communities descended from slaves and continued research on slavery's legacy in the modern world.