BPR Full Show: Let's Talk About "The Talk"

Today on Boston Public Radio:

We begin the show by talking with listeners about the Republican National Committee labeling the Jan. 6 Capitol attacks as “legitimate political discourse.”

U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins discusses the decision to dismiss criminal charges against MIT professor Gang Chen, who was accused of hiding ties to China. She also talks about her priority of combatting human trafficking. Rollins is the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, and the former Suffolk County District Attorney.

Katie Murphy and Tami Hale talk about the burnout and staffing shortages facing nurses across the state. Murphy is president of the Massachusetts Nurses Association and a nurse at Brigham and Womens. Hale is a school nurse at Gates Lane Elementary School in Worcester.

Emily Channell-Justice explains the foreign policy implications behind Russia’s threat to invade Ukraine, and what Ukrainian sovereignty means in the 21st century. Channell-Justice is the director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard. Their annual conference on Ukraine begins today, examining 30 years of Ukrainian sovereignty. Her study of the Ukrainian people, “Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine” is forthcoming.

Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III share their thoughts on Joe Rogan’s apology for using the N-word in multiple podcast episodes, and racism in the NFL. Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist and the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail. Price is founding pastor of Community of Love Christian Fellowship in Allston, the Inaugural Dean of Africana Studies at Berklee College of Music. Together, they host GBH’s All Rev’d Up podcast.

Kara Baskin talks about her recent column on how and when to have the “talk” with kids about sex. Baskin is a Food & Parenting writer for the Boston Globe, and a humor writer for McSweeney's.

We end the show by opening the lines, asking listeners how they’ve had the “talk” with their kids.