19 : Political Roundtable, Michael Jackson, Poems on Democracy

Boston Public Radio Podcast

English - March 05, 2019 13:15 - 2 hours - 76 MB - ★★★★ - 429 ratings
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The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Monday, March 4th, 2019.

We went over the political headlines with Michael Curry and Jennifer Nassour. Nassour is former Chairman of the MassGOP and COO of ReflectUS, and Curry is senior vice president and general counsel at Mass League of Community Health Centers, and a member of the National NAACP Board of Directors.

Charles Sennott analyzed the corruption charges leveled against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Sennott heads up The GroundTruth Project and is a WGBH news analyst.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is the latest Democrat to jump into the 2020 presidential race. We opened up the lines and asked our listeners: Is the field already overcrowded?

TV authority Bob Thompson joined us to go over the latest TV news, plus his best and worst moments of the week. Thompson is founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture and a Trustee Professor of Television and Popular Culture at the Newhouse School of public communications at Syracuse.

On the latest edition of "All Revved Up," Rev. Irene Monroe and Rev. Emmett Price discussed a new HBO documentary on allegations of sexual abuse against Michael Jackson. Then, we opened up the lines and asked our listeners: Is it impossible to separate the man from the music? Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist and the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail, and a Visiting Researcher in the Religion and Conflict Transformation Program at Boston University School of Theology. Price is the Professor of Worship, Church & Culture and Founding Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of the Black Christian Experience at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

Poet Richard Blanco joined us for "Village Voice," his exploration of how poetry can help us understand the news of the day. Blanco is the fifth presidential inaugural poet in U.S. history. His new book, "How To Love A Country," will be released in March.