This Week in Business

Queens Company CEO Jessicah Pierre joins us This Week in Business to discuss creating a networking group for women of color.

Doug Banks, editor for the Boston Business Journal, joins This Week in Business to talk about the Moderna vaccine, the politicization of mask policies; Patriots fan plans for the football season; the cancellation of the Head of the Charles; and for now, different fates for duck and swan boats.

Shirley Leung of The Boston Globe talks about Phase 3 of reopening in Massachusetts — from gyms to casinos. Plus, the future of college education, the Harvard and MIT suit over an immigration order and new bridges coming to Cape Cod.

Segun Idowu, Executive Director of the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts, joins us to talk about creating economic equity in Massachusetts that is real and lasting.

Able Services New England division manager Stephanie Barnes discusses the challenges janitorial service companies and workers are facing in the pandemic. She makes the case for why they should be deemed essential workers.

If you thought high-achieving successful business people were safe from the ugliness of racism, you would be very wrong. In this segment, we hear the personal stories of Emerson College president Lee Pelton, Colette Phillips, president of Colette Phillips Communications, and Darryl Settles, president of Catalyst Ventures Development....

How will Boston and the nation respond to systemic racism? And why is there so much more interest now? A conversation with Emerson College president Lee Pelton, Colette Phillips, president of Colette Phillips Communications, and Darryl Settles, president of Catalyst Ventures Development.

Public contracting and procurement: Two areas where real change can come in the push for racial equity. It’s part three of our conversation with Emerson College president Lee Pelton, Colette Phillips, president of Colette Phillips Communications, and Darryl Settles, president of Catalyst Ventures Development.

Boston Business Journal Editor Doug Banks joins us to discuss the historic Dreamer and LGBTQ SCOTUS rulings, as well as retail sales, home sales and getting into Harvard without taking the SAT.

What’s happening with King Boston, both the memorial and Center for Economic Justice. Executive Director Imari Paris Jeffries and Founder Paul English join the conversation.

Thea James, MD, Associate Chief Medical Officer of Boston Medical Center, joins us to discuss what it means now that Boston Mayor Marty Walsh says race is a public health crisis.

State Street Corporation Chief Diversity Officer Paul Francisco talks about the impact of George Floyd’s death and the movement to combat racism and inequality. Plus, a unique protest featuring Black executives in Boston.

Provincetown Director of Tourism Tony Fuccillo on Pride and the reopening of restaurants and hotels in P-Town.