This week's panelists are Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, pastor at the New Roots AME Church in Dorchester and Jennifer Nassour, former chair of the Massachusetts Republican Party.

Plus, Governor Baker unveiled a new police reform bill yesterday, in response to ongoing protests calling for changes. Are the proposed reforms the right approach?

Firday, June 19, is "Juneteenth." It commemorates the day that Union soldiers in 1865 told enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, that the Civil War had ended and they were free.

DACA will continue after the Supreme Court rejected an effort by the Trump Administration to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

We review some of the components of the bill with a policy researcher and an advocate for police reform.

Andrea Campbell, chair of the Boston City Council committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice, joins us to explain why she is pushing for the city to remove police officers from public schools.

The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation warns by fiscal year 2022, the T could have an operating budget deficit of over $400 million.

WBUR announced today it would be laying off 29 employees, more than ten percent of its staff.

Plus, WBUR announces layoffs and we hear from high school seniors graduating during a pandemic.

We hear reflections from local high school seniors.