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The public response to Monkeypox is bringing back memories of the early AIDS crisis for some of the region's LGBTQ community. Also, a retrospective of the last year since then Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his resigantion after sexual harassment allegations. And a new effort to combat domestic terrorism in NYS with each county now being required to come up with a special plan to thwart events like the Tops shooting of May 14.

Tops markets opens their Jefferson Ave. store at the scene of the May 14 shooting on Friday, but today we hear about a petition drive to stop it. Also, Carpenter Union jobs might not be available in Buffalo, but a regionalization could find work for the Buffalo-area people willing to travel. And a delayed vote on the city council’s redistriciting plan, means no action on an alternate map that activists have been pushing for to provide broader Black representation.

In this episode, Jay Moran welcomes Zeneta Everhart, Director of Diversity & Inclusion for NYS Senator Tim Kennedy. Everhart’s 21-year-old Zaire Goodman, was wounded but survived the racially motivated attack at the Tops supermarket on May 14. Everhart talks about testifying before the House Oversight Committee about gun violence and the massacre in Buffalo.Dave Debo spends the rest of the hour talking "action" with Tina Peel from West Seneca, a white ally behind one of the most enduring images along Jefferson Avenue – lawn signs touting thoughts, prayers, and an unchecked box next to the word “action.”

The Interior Department ordered a review of tribal jail deaths, but the man who got the contract is a former agency official who oversaw the jails when some of the deaths occurred.

The country's data protection agency said La Liga's popular app was systematically accessing phones' microphones and geolocation data to find out which bars were showing unlicensed match broadcasts.

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This summer, Kenyan artists came to Washington, D.C., for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Some of them make their living by turning trash into sculptures, jewelry and igloos.

The Justice Department and Texas are headed for a legal fight over Gov. Greg Abbott's floating barrier in the Rio Grande to stop illegal border crossings. The DOJ says the buoys violate federal law.

NPR's Tell Me More celebrates its 5th anniversary, and the Barbershop has been a signature feature from the start. Host Michel Martin reviews some of the hottest Barbershop discussions with some of the O.G.s — or original guys: journalist Jimi Izrael; civil rights attorney Arsalan Iftikhar; columnist Ruben Navarrette; and professor Lester Spence.