Anthony Brooks
Anthony Brooks has more than twenty five years of experience in public radio, working as a producer, editor, reporter, and most recently, as a fill-in host for NPR. For years, Brooks has worked as a Boston-based reporter for NPR, covering regional issues across New England, including politics, criminal justice, and urban affairs. He has also covered higher education for NPR, and during the 2000 presidential election he was one of NPR's lead political reporters, covering the campaign from the early primaries through the Supreme Court's Bush V. Gore ruling. His reports have been heard for many years on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition.
Beyond NPR, Brooks has also worked as a senior producer on the team that helped design and launch The World for Public Radio International. He was also a senior correspondent for InsideOut Documentaries at WBUR in Boston. His piece "Testing DNA" and "The Death Penalty-InsideOut" won the 2002 Robert F. Kennedy Award for best radio feature. Over the years, Brooks has won numerous other broadcast awards, including the Edward R. Murrow Regional Broadcasters Award, the AP Broadcasters Award, the Ohio State Award, and the Robert L. Kozik Award for environmental reporting for his Soundprint documentary, "Chernobyl Revisited."
Beyond his reporting, Brooks is also a frequent fill-in host for NPR's On Point as well as Here and Now, produced by WBUR, and for NPR's Day to Day.
In 2006 Brooks was awarded a Knight Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he spent a year of sabbatical studies focusing on urban violence and wrongful convictions.
Brooks grew up in Boston, Italy, and Switzerland.
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"The point is that the mayor of Boston is someone who can rally people, bring people together, and go after problems that are even bigger than the state has allowed the city to be in charge of," Weiss said.
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Michelle Wu will be the next mayor of Boston, Mass. It's the first time the city had elected a mayor who is not a white man. She has promised universal preschool and a city-wide Green New Deal.
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"We've got to make sure that we're filling pot holes, repairing our sidewalks, building playgrounds, picking up the trash and turning on the lights," she said. "It's not sexy. It's not glamorous."
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Wu, 36, grew up in Chicago — the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants. Back then, she never imagined that she would enter politics, let alone run for mayor of Boston.
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In Tuesday's primary election in Boston, there are five major candidates running to lead the city. All of them are people of color. The two finalists from the preliminary vote will face off Nov. 2.
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It's down to the final hours of campaigning for the five major candidates running for mayor of Boston, and over the weekend, acting Mayor Kim Janey and city councilors Michelle Wu, Andrea Campbell and Annissa Essaibi George criss-crossed the city to try to win over undecided voters.
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The recovery from the pandemic-induced recession can differ from state to state. We dig into the reasons behind the vast disparities in jobless rates in New Hampshire and neighboring Massachusetts.
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The Massachusetts Republican Party is in turmoil following the resignation of its vice chairman, Tom Mountain, who stepped down Sunday night amid allegations that he posted inappropriate comments on Facebook. It is just the latest challenge from the state GOP.
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As states climb out of pandemic-induced recessions, there are dramatic differences in unemployment rates -- even between states right next door to each other. For example, New Hampshire is at 2.5%, while the jobless rate in neighboring Massachusetts is more than twice as high.
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Hundreds of people filled the town green in Winthrop to remember two of their own who died in what authorities describe as "an execution" -- and may have been targeted because they were Black. Their friends and family members remembered them as good people who spent much of their lives committed to serving and protecting their communities.