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Bristol County Jail standoff: A predicament for systemic change?
This is the Radio Boston rundown for April 26. Tiziana Dearing is our host.
- A standoff at the Bristol County Jail resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage and renewed questions about inmate living conditions. WBUR's Deb Becker joins us to discuss the incident and what it says about new Bristol County sheriff Paul Heroux's plans for change.
- Wellesley College professor of Africana studies, Kellie Carter Jackson, returns to Radio Boston for a monthly check-in. This time, we talk about teaching Black history in schools nationwide.
- We talk about comic books as a medium that allows visual artists and storytellers to share culture and heritage.
This program aired on April 26, 2023.