
Renee Graham
Cognoscenti contributor
Renee Graham is pop culture correspondent for WBUR’s Here & Now and The ARTery, and contributes to Boston Globe Opinion. Renee was a longtime arts writer and pop culture columnist for The Boston Globe.
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Week in review: The Boston mayoral race, social media woes and state spending
This week, we're debriefing everything from the Boston mayoral race to social media woes to state spending.

Week In Review: COVID Mandates, Vaccines And Masks
We take listener calls on the tensions tensions around what to require, and when, in this pandemic in terms of masking and vaccines.
Week In Review: Wakefield Showdown And Politics
We take listener calls with Renee Graham, a Boston Globe columnist and a WBUR contributor, and Tom Nichols, a professor of national security affairs at the US Naval War College...
Week In Review: One Day Before State's Full Reopening
We review the week's big news with former Massachusetts Governor Jane Swift, now the president and executive director of LearnLaunch. And Renee Graham, a Boston Globe columnist and a WBUR...
Sen. Kamala Harris, VP Candidate: Listeners React
We take listener calls on Biden's historic VP pick.
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Nate Parker's 'The Birth Of A Nation' Delivers A Heroic Nat Turner
While Parker aims to use Turner's story to provoke painful conversations, the director's own story -- and the difficult questions it conjures -- might overshadow the effort.

An Icon Of Grit And Grace, Pam Grier Is Finally Getting Her Due
The Harvard Film Archive is honoring the actress with a retrospective featuring some of her best known films and she is also the recipient of this year’s W.E.B. Du Bois...

Frederick Douglass Used Photographs To Force The Nation To Begin Addressing Racism
A year-long exhibit in Boston features almost 100 photographs Frederick Douglass sat for in an effort to establish a new image of black people: self-possessed and unafraid.

Chin Up, Berniacs! It's Time For You To Endorse Hillary Clinton, Too
Bernie Sanders has endorsed Hillary Clinton. Renee Graham says that his supporters, as testy and heartbroken as they may now be, need to do the same.

In 'Jackie Robinson,' Ken Burns Shows A Civil Rights Champion As Well As A Baseball Icon
'Jackie Robinson' premieres Monday and Tuesday at 9 p.m. on PBS.