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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Gregory Rosston of Stanford University about the FCC's decision to reinstate net neutrality policies and what the last 6 years on the internet has been like without them.

The committee will seek out answers to who mobilized extremist groups at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

In this episode, WBFO’s Jay Moran welcomes Murray Holman, Executive Director of Stop the Violence Coalition, to talk about the effects of gun violence. WBFO News Director Dave Debo talks about youth and parent engagement with Samuel L. Radford, III, from We the Parents of WNY. Finally, WBFO Managing Editor, Brigid Jaipaul Valenza, speaks with Ann Bowbak from Spectrum Health & Human Services who provides perspective on what the community needs as they work through trauma and grief after the mass shooting at Tops Friendly Markets on May 14 in Buffalo, NY.

Earlier this year TIME magazine included Buffalo’s Dr. Fatima Morrell PhD in their national list of education innovators and she joins hosts Jay Moran and Thomas O’Neil White on this edition of “Buffalo, What’s Next?” She is the associate superintendent of culturally and linguistically responsive initiatives for Buffalo Public Schools, and has worked on making sure that the city’s classrooms, teachers and parents all resonate properly for students of color. In the wake of the George Floyd killing and the summer of Black Lives Matters rallies, she developed and implemented an “Emancipation Curriculum” to address systemic oppression and she says anti-racism education plays a role in violence prevention, especially after the Tops shootings.

On this week’s Producers’ Picks highlights episode we revisit our previous conversations with: Adrienne Garr and La’Tryse Anderson from Buffalo S.N.U.G. (6/1), Charles Brandy and Melvin Watkins of the Afro-American Historical Association of the Niagara Frontier (6/6), and Gi Swords and Faith Winship from GLYS of Western New York (6/7).

The Jan. 6 House panel issues more subpoenas for ex-Trump officials. A look at two cases before the Supreme Court Tuesday. And, India's rapid development has left it with many environmental issues.

Irving Berlin wrote this song for Top Hat (1935), starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

On Monday's Scoreboard... The Buffalo Bills have clinched the AFC East; The Sabres seem to have slipped back into old habits; Two local high school football teams are headed to the State Championship; & one UB Bulls team has swept their local competition.

For this episode of Buffalo, What’s Next?: Producers’ Picks, we have an important panel discussion that was hosted at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. “Beyond Hate: A Panel Discussion” was moderated by the host of NPR’s The Takeaway, Melissa Harris-Perry, and the distinguished speakers on the panel included Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, President of Spelman College Dr. Helene Gayle, the Chancellor of the State University of New York Dr. John B. King Jr., and the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church the Most Reverend Michael Curry.

Millions of Americans saw videos they'd not seen before from the Jan. 6 insurrection.