Assistant Majority Whip, the only openly gay, as well as the youngest member of the Massachusetts State Senate, Julian Cyr talks about his fight for the state’s most vulnerable citizens.
Read MoreErin McAleer is the President of the state’s largest anti-hunger organization and as a child she knew hunger first hand. Right now thousands of Massachusetts families are ‘food insecure’ and she tells us what she’s doing about it.
Read MoreShellfishing is back breaking work with many pressures. But as if bacterial infections, predators, and hazardous waste aren’t enough, a proposed new law may be paving the way for independent shellfish farmers to be replaced by large corporations.
Read MoreTim McCarthy was a gay media historian who travelled the world making a video record of human rights abuses against LGBTQ people. After he died suddenly, his friends created a Human Rights Champion Award in his honor.
Read MoreBest-selling author Dan Okrent talks about eugenics, the pseudo-science that influenced the Nazis and made the fear of immigrant degenerates tainting the blood of white America the law of the land.
Read MoreLos Angeles Times reporter Sam Quinones recounts how a flood of prescription pain meds, along with black tar heroin from Mexico, became as easy to buy as pizza and small cities all over middle America became heartlands of addiction.
Read MoreFormer Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe gets real about working with Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions, and an administration that places personal loyalty above national security and counter terrorism.
Read MoreBeing homeless, losing your job, or emerging from an abusive relationship are among many people’s lingering fears but on the Outer Cape there is a place to turn for help: Mass Appeal.
Read MoreDying is a topic we try to avoid at all costs except at Death Café, the place where folks can gather to discuss it tastefully with tea and cake.
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