How Franklin County is Reimagining Policing

4/29: Karin Jeffers, President and CEO of Community Support Options, on CSO’s pilot program to change police response to 911 calls involving mental health; Natalia Munoz on cutting police budgets; Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David on coping with pandemics through the ages and now.

Against Asian Hate in The Valley

4/28: Co-Chair of the Northampton Human Rights Commission Megan Paik, UMass. Prof, Richard Chu and Coordinator of the Francis Crowe Film Series, Carolyn Oppenheim; Sex Matters with Dr. Jane Fleishman and Natalia Munoz.

Ellsberg & Snowden & Goodman & UMass

4/27: UMass. Professor of History and Vietnam War expert, Chris Appy,
on the 50th anniversary of the release of the Pentagon Papers and the upcoming Daniel Ellsberg conference at UMass; poet Eileen Kennedy, whose new book is “Touch My Head Softly;” Sci-Tech Cafe with MHC prof. Kirsten Nordstrom and John Hopkins prof. Alison Hill.

Rural Communities are SOL when it comes to SOL

4/26: State Representative Natalie Blais; Black in the Valley with Rev. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, Professor Carlies Tartakov, and Rev. Renee Wormack Keels on children in prison.

Why is the Rep. from Amherst driving to Worcester for her vaccine?

4/23: State Representative Mindy Domb; Mass. Teachers Ass’n Vice President, Max Page; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis, Jen Carr, and Michael Karmody.

Immigrant Voices

4/22: More “Cool Films with Larry Hott;” The Center for New Americans–
we speak with the Executive Director and students; the Reverend, Peter Ives, and the Rabbi, Justin David.

Guilty

4/21: John Pucci wraps the Chauvin trial; Chuck Collins, whose new book is “The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions;” Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz.

What The Federal Recovery Bill Means for Easthampton

A look at the Governor’s budget

“I’d like to thank The Academy.”