Under the Radar with Callie Crossley
"Under the Radar with Callie Crossley" looks to alternative presses and community news for stories that are often overlooked by big media outlets. In our roundtable conversation, we aim to examine the small stories before they become the big headlines with contributors in Boston and New England.
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- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 562
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Regional News Roundtable: RI Insurer Backtracks, NH Bars Out-Of-State Student Vaccines, Vineyard Lighthouse Contaminates Park
This week, on our regional roundtable: In Rhode Island, public outrage over Blue Cross Blue Shield’s plan to charge patients for COVID-19 treatment; New Hampshire boots out of state college students …
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Sun 04 Apr 2021
Latinx News: Border 'Crisis,' Chelsea Shortchanged, Few Latinos At Oscars
The situation at the southern border worsens, but the Biden administration resists calling it a crisis; Chelsea — one of the Massachusetts communities hit hardest by COVID — gets short-changed in the…
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Sun 28 Mar 2021
How The Pandemic Is Challenging Our Understanding Of Poverty
The COVID-19 Pandemic pulled an estimated 8 million Americans into poverty. Millions lost jobs that kept them one paycheck away from becoming destitute, and many, like those who were formerly conside…
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Sun 21 Mar 2021
Life After COVID? Futurists Discuss A Post-Pandemic World
It's been one year since Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker declared a state of emergency, sending most of us inside, and upending our lives in ways we couldn’t have imagined.
On this sobering annive…
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Sun 14 Mar 2021
Pop Culture: Streaming Premieres, Allen V. Farrow, And Dolly Parton
Will one studio’s decision to stream all of its movies right away be a final blow for struggling movie theaters?
Plus, HBO’s Allen vs. Farrow the dramatic telling of the sexual abuse charges agains…
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Sun 07 Mar 2021
Local News: Boston City Council Race, Subletters' Legal Limbo And Work After The Pandemic
With several Boston city councilors eyeing the mayor’s office, contenders are gathering support to fill their soon-to-be-empty seats. Plus, as the April deadline of the CDC’s eviction moratorium clos…
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Sun 28 Feb 2021
An Experimental Food Program Struggles To Help Boston's Hardest Hit Community
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to illuminate the glaring inequalities that already existed in Massachusetts. Rising unemployment has made things worse for families already stretched thin. Especially…
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Sun 21 Feb 2021
Environmental News: The Next Pandemic, Boston Subways And Rejoining The Paris Agreement
Even as the national vaccine rollout inoculates Americans against COVID-19, climate change is already fueling the next wave of global pandemics. A new study raises concerns over the air quality of Bo…
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Sun 21 Feb 2021
LGBTQ News: Biden's Executive Order, Buttigieg's Confirmation, Companies Improve Workplace Equality
President Biden makes good on a campaign promise, issuing an executive order banning discrimination of sexual orientation and gender identity. Correcting the record on the historic importance of newl…
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Tue 09 Feb 2021
Latinx News: Presidential Inauguration Spotlights Latinas, Prioritizing COVID-19 Vaccines For Immigrant Communities, And Rising Latino Leaders
Latinas shared the spotlight at last week's presidential inauguration - with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor swearing in Vice President Kamala Harris followed by Jennifer Lopez’s bilingual medl…
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Sun 24 Jan 2021
How Boston Set The Stage For A 'Legacy Of Love' Between Martin Luther King Jr. And Coretta Scott King
They were just two of the thousands of students who each year arrive in Boston for college. He, the heir to a historic ministry, she the poor small-town girl with big music dreams. In 1950s Boston, M…
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Mon 18 Jan 2021
Politics: Georgia's Historic Election, Aftermath Of Pro-Trump Insurrection, And Boston Mayor Tapped By Biden
A note to our listeners:
We taped this segment hours before Boston Mayor Marty Walsh was tapped by President-elect Joe Biden to lead the U.S. Department of Labor.
There are just days to go before …
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Mon 11 Jan 2021
Encore: Kimberlé Crenshaw On The Importance Of Intersectionality
This is a special encore edition of Under the Radar with Callie Crossley. This segment originally aired on October 15, 2017.
Intersectionality may be a buzz word in the news, personal essays and pr…
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Wed 30 Dec 2020
Successes And Shortcomings: 30 Years Of The Americans With Disabilities Act
Thirty years ago, East and West Germany reunited after the fall of the Soviet Union. It was 1990, the same year The World Wide Web debuted, plus singer Mariah Carey’s blockbuster hit, "Vision of Love…
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Mon 21 Dec 2020
Saving Bookstores: How Independent Shops Cope Against COVID And E-Commerce Giants
A special one-hour edition of Bookmarked: The Under the Radar Book Club. Today, 'Saving Bookstores.'
When COVID-19 forced shutdowns in March, independent bookstores saw an immediate 8 percent overa…
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Mon 21 Dec 2020
The Legacy Of Tunney Lee: Preserving The History Of Boston's Chinatown
Boston’s Chinatown lost a pillar of its community this summer. MIT professor emeritus Tunney Lee, an urban planner, architect, and historian died in July of complications from cancer.
Lee immigrate…
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Mon 21 Dec 2020
Local News: Adapting To All-Remote Learning, COVID Cases Spike In State, And Massachusetts' Most Diverse High Court
Schools shift back to fully-remote learning in Boston, while parents and teachers seek innovative solutions. Plus, COVID-19 cases continue to spike in the state, further straining healthcare staffing…
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Mon 21 Dec 2020
Local Food Groups Confront Heightened Hunger Crisis Amid Coronavirus
One million people now face hunger in Massachusetts. Coronavirus has forced a huge increase across the state of residents who don't know where or how they will get their next meal. Worse, the non-pro…
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Mon 21 Dec 2020
Politics: 2020 Election Outcomes, Youth And Minority Voter Power, And Problems With Polling
We still don’t know who will be the next president of the United States. And it appears the outcome will remain uncertain as ballot counters in battleground states continue to work through counting t…
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Fri 13 Nov 2020
Vandalized Signs Don't Stop BLM Supporters From Taking A Public Stance On Private Property
By now you've probably seen them, the signs — large, small, colorful or simply black and white — with the words "Black Lives Matter." They've become a familiar sight since the wave of Black Lives Mat…
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Fri 13 Nov 2020
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