In his new book called Yonder, Jabari Asim tells the stories of six men and women, five of them enslaved, and the plantation owners who "stole" them, in the words of the book. It is a brutal telling of struggle, love, toil and freedom.

After two years of masking, isolating, vaccinating and anxiously wondering, have we finally reached a turning point in the way we should be thinking about the pandemic? We ask Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University's School of Public Health.

A 2017 case about a request to briefly fly a Christian flag in front of City Hall has reached the Supreme Court.

A case involving a request to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole outside Boston City Hall has landed in the Supreme Court. Also, it's Tuesday — which means it's time to "Ask the Docs." We take your questions about COVID-19.

Mike Marino, a registered nurse and emergency preparedness manager at Emerson Hospital, gives us a look inside the nearly 200-bed facility.

With us this week are Dr. Sabrina Assoumou, an infectious disease specialist at Boston Medical Center and an assistant professor at Boston University School of Medicine; and Dr. Philip Landrigan, a pediatrician, epidemiologist, and Director of the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College.

"King saw love not only as a deep commitment and value, but as a means to us framing all of the things that we were experiencing," the Rev. Willie Bodrick II, senior pastor at Twelfth Baptist Church, tells WBUR's Radio Boston.

This week, we're joined by Arline Isaacson, co-chair of the Massachusetts Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus and president of Isaacson Political Consulting, and media analyst John Carroll.

Plus, the firing of Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores and what it says about the league.

We discuss Brian Flores' firing, and what it says about the league with Boston Globe columnist and reporter Gary Washburn and Howard Bryant, senior writer for ESPN and sports correspondent for NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday.