Huma Abedin is a longtime aide to Hillary Clinton, and her life story is complex. She went from a cloistered childhood spent in Saudi Arabia to the inner circle of the Clinton White House and then Hillary Clinton's campaigns.

Plus, we talk about the impact of the show "Pose" on local ballroom culture.

A special hour of Radio Boston, in which we revisit a January 2021 hour with four Black leaders on how they see Boston today and in the future.

We revisit this conversation on how women from Troy to New York City are heroines in their own right with Maria Tatar, author of the book, "The Heroine with 1001 Faces."

From the local ties of some of your favorite Christmas songs, to a lesser-known story involving Charles Dickens and a trip to Boston, we ring in the holiday with a look back at some of our favorite Christmas conversations.

We take your calls on your favorite reads with Jennifer De Leon, author, and editor of Wise Latinas and Katherine Nazzarro, bookseller and manager at Porter Square Books in Cambridge.

We turn to Rev. Mariama White-Hammond founding-pastor at New Roots AME church in Dorchester, and Father John Unni, Catholic pastor of St. Cecilia Parish in Back Bay, to reflect during a rapidly changing and stressful Christmas holiday.

Plus, catching up with outgoing Boston City Councilor and former mayoral candidate Annissa Essaibi George

The at-large Boston city councilor jumped into the wide open mayoral race in March, and steadily rose to the top of the pack, drawing the second-highest vote count in September's preliminary election.

Omicron becomes the dominant strain in Massachusetts, and cases and hospitalizations continue to climb. This in an industry that's struggled to weather this pandemic for nearly two years already.