• The Common

  • By: WBUR
  • Podcast
  • Summary

  • Greater Boston’s daily podcast where news and culture meet.
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Episodes
  • A people's history through Boston Urban Archive
    May 23 2024

    The Instagram account Boston Urban Archive offers a look at the history of the city's communities of color. Ebony Gill created the page in December of 2023, while she was a student at University of Massachusetts Boston. Since then, the account has garnered more than 30,000 followers with images that take viewers down Boston's memory lane.

    WBUR Reporter Arielle Gray visited UMass Boston's Healey Library to document Ebony at work for our Field Guide to Boston. She joins The Common to talk to us about the experience, and what is gained when we shine a light on these parts of the city's history.

    Greater Boston’s daily podcast where news and culture meet.

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    13 mins
  • To Rome and back: Mayor Wu and Gov. Healey tout climate policies at the Vatican
    May 22 2024

    Gov. Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu traveled to Rome last week to present their plans for de-carbonization and climate resiliency at a multi-day summit hosted by the Vatican and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

    The Wu administration aims to reduce the city’s carbon footprint via a suite of initiatives, including new rules on Boston buildings, which are responsible for over 70% of the city’s greenhouse gas emissions. Wu's goal is for city buildings, old and new, to be carbon-neutral by 2050.

    Meanwhile, Gov. Healey is pushing her own climate reforms in the state legislature.

    For more on their trip to Italy, Darryl C. Murphy speaks with Boston Globe politics reporter Samantha J. Gross, who traveled with Wu and Healey last week.

    Greater Boston’s daily podcast where news and culture meet.

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    13 mins
  • Unpacking the official response to the pro-Gaza student movement
    May 21 2024

    As school years wind down at colleges and universities around the state, the last student encampments protesting the war in Gaza have been dismantled.

    At some schools, student protestors packed up the tents of their own free will. At others -- including Emerson, Northeastern and MIT -- they were forcibly disbanded by police.

    With summer fast approaching, questions remain about the tactics employed by universities to disperse student protesters. The Common's Darryl C. Murphy speaks with WBUR senior political reporter Anthony Brooks about what happened and what comes next.

    Greater Boston’s daily podcast where news and culture meet.

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    11 mins

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