Listen to the radio commentary of Reverends Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III every Monday on WGBH (89.7 FM), on Boston Public Radio, now a podcast.
Rev. Irene Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist who writes for Huffington Post and Bay Windows. She is sometimes accompanied by Rev. Emmett G. Price III is a professor of music at Northeastern University, and the author of The Black Church and Hip Hop Culture.
05/03/21 – All Rev’d Up: Saying That America Isn’t Racist Is ‘Absurd’
04/26/21 – All Rev’d Up: How Faith Leaders Are Responding To Derek Chauvin’s Guilty Verdicts
04/06/21 – Irene on WGBH’s “Here & Now” Black Pastor Conducts Funerals For People Untended By Traditional Church
04/05/21 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up Is The Church’s Influence Waning? ‘All Rev’d Up’ Hosts Disagree
03/29/21 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up Why Some Catholic Bishops Lobbied Against National Suicide Prevention Hotline
03/23/2021 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up Harvard Should Be Leading On Reparations But Lags Behind
03.15.2021 — Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up Pope Francis ‘Flip-Flops’ On LGBTQ Inclusivity In The Catholic Church
03/05/2021 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up
The Revs Discuss Their Expectations For Derek Chauvin’s Trial
03/01/2021 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up Senate Unlikely To Pass Equality Act Due To Conservative Faith-Based Tensions
02/22/2021 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up Hostile Work Environment Case Could Be Headed To The Supreme Court Over Use Of N-Word
02/15/2021 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up Biden Condemns Racism Against Asian Americans Amid Surge Of Hate Crimes
02/08/2021 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up Country Music’s Response To Morgan Wallen’s Racism
02/01/2021 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up COVID-19 Vaccines Must Get To The People Who Need Them Most
01/25/2021 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up Whether Catholic, Pro-Choice Biden Ought To Be Denied Communion: ‘Come On!’
01/18/2021 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up Genuine Equality ‘Has Not Been Manifest Yet’ In America
01/11/2021 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up Georgia Paves The Way For A ‘New South’ By Electing State’s First Black Senator And First Jewish Senator
01/04/2021 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up ‘This Is No Progress,’ Revs Say Of Boston Police Sgt. Clifton McHale
12/28.2020 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up Dr. Susan Moore, a Black doctor who died of COVID-19 after raising concerns over racist medical treatment
12/21.2020 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up Revs. Irene Monroe And Emmett Price Tout ‘Beautiful Approach’ In Saturday Protests For Racial Justice
12/14.2020 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up Biden Is A Catholic, But ‘So What?’
12/07.2020 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up The Revs Weigh In On Supreme Court’s Ruling On Religious Gatherings
11/30.2020 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up The Revs Talk Biden Catholicism, Debate Praise of Faith In Politics
11/23.2020 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up ‘We Should Be Able to Tell the Truth’ This Thanksgiving Season
11/16.2020 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up The Effects Of White Supremacy On This Year’s Election
11/09.2020 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up On Where We Go From Here
11/02.2020 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up The Problem With ‘Patriotic Churches’
10.27.2020 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up“Symbolism Versus Substance from the Catholic Church”
10.21.2020 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up “Voter Suppression”
10/07/2020 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up “Should Black people trust medical trials?”
09.23.2020 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up “Grieving During a Twindemic”
09.09.2020 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up “Black Agency and Influence”
08.26.2020 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up “Kamala Harris, First Black Woman”
08.12.2020 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up “Season Two: We’re Back!”
11.13.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up “A New Chapter for Tyler Perry”
10.30.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up “A Conversation with Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley”
10.16.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up “Kanye the Evangelist”
10.02.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: “The N-Word”
09.18.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: “Politics in the Pulpit”
09.04.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: “Are We in a Cold War”
08.21.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: “Hoping and Waiting for Reparations”
08.07.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: “Thou Shalt Not Forgive”
07.24.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: “What is Black Enough?”
07.10.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: “What Do They See When They See Us?”
06.19.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: “All Rev’d Up First Listen”
06.17.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Phoenix Mayor Apologizes For Police’s Violent Confrontation With Young Family
06.10.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: A ‘Straight Pride’ Parade In Boston?
06.03.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Should Robert Smith’s Morehouse Philanthropy Become A Model For Student Loan Forgiveness?
05.13.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: We Have Never Reached The Status Of Integration In Schools
05.06.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: A Civil War Monument Is Dividing Martha’s Vineyard
04.22.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: When ‘Thoughts And Prayers’ Are Not Enough
04.08.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Cambridge’s N-Word Controversy Falls In Much Larger Context
03.18.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: The College Admissions Scam And Affirmative Action
03.11.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: All Revved Up: Boston Should Have A Memorial To Malcolm X?
03.04.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: All Revved Up: Navigating Michael Jackson’s Legacy After ‘Leaving Neverland’
02.27.2019 – Irene on the Boston Public Radio Bookclub:
‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X’
02.25.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: All Revved Up: Can The Catholic Church Be Redeemed?
02.18.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: All Revved Up: Is The Catholic Church Irredeemable?
02.11.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: All Revved Up: Cambridge’s N-Word Controversy
02.04.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up:
‘He Is Out The Door’: Will Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam Resign Amidst Racist Photo Scandal?
01.28.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: All Revved Up: Covington Catholic High School Teens A ‘Classic Case of White Male Entitlement’
01.21.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: ‘Green Book’ Presents A Whitewashed Version of History
01.14.2019 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: ‘Green Book’ Presents A Whitewashed Version of History
01.07.2019 – Irene on WGBH’sAll Revved Up: What Impact Will ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ Have?
12.17.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Elizabeth Warren Had The Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Wrong Message
12.10.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Kevin Hart’s Non-Apology Apology
12.03.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: White Liberals ‘Downgrade’ Their Speech To Sound ‘Folksy’ To Minorities
11.28.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: What White Liberals Can Do To Fight Racism
11.26.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: In ‘Becoming,’ Michelle Obama Tells Her Own Story
11.19.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Should Black Churches Arm Themselves?
11.12.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Trump and Black Women in the Media
11.05.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Can the Catholic Church Redeem Itself?
10.29.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Do Houses of Worship Need Armed Guards?
10.22.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Elizabeth Warren’s DNA Test ‘Gives Trump The Upper Hand’
10.15.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: We’re Still Reeling From Kanye’s Meeting With Trump
10.08.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: The Trumps Worry About Young Men In The Wake Of Kavanaugh
10.01.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Controversies Around Bill Cosby’s Sentencing
09.24.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Are We Going Through The Clarence Thomas Hearings Again?
09.17.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: The Catholic Church Fails To Act On Pervasive Sexual Abuse
09.10.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: How Are Catholics Responding To Latest Church Scandal?
08.06.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: How Do You Explain The President’s Insults To Children?
07.23.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Boston Police Commissioner Bill Evans Announced Today That He Will Be Retiring
07.16.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Re-opening The Emmett Till Case
07.09.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Does God Have A Gender?
06.25.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: The Impact Of Shootings On The African American Community
06.18.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Sessions Uses ‘Terror Text’ To Defend Immigration Policy
06.11.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Boston’s New MLK Memorial
06.04.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Supreme Court Ruling On Baker And Same-Sex Couple Sets Up ‘God vs. Gay’ Narrative
05.02.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Did Larry Wilmore Go Too Far?
04.02.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: How MLK’s Anti-Poverty Message Has Been Sanitized | WGBH News
03.12.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: March Madness Will Generate A Huge Amount Of Money For the NCAA — But Not For Any Of The Players | WGBH News
03.05.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Could Arming Teachers Put Students Of Color At Risk? | WGBH News
02.26.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: The Cultural Significance Of ‘Black Panther’ | WGBH News
02.13.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: BPD Fumbles Black History Month Tweet By Honoring A White Man | WGBH News
02.05.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: The Dodge Ad That Tried To Use MLK’s Words To Sell Trucks | WGBH News
01.29.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: The Message Trump Is Missing In Jay-Z’s Comments | WGBH News
01.21.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: What The Pope’s ‘Slander’ Comment Means For Sexual Abuse Victims | WGBH News
01.08.2018 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Rev. Irene Monroe Breaks Down Cornel West’s Criticism Of Ta-Nehisi Coates
12.18.2017 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Why Some Evangelicals Don’t Want To Be Called Evangelicals
12.11.2017 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: A Spotlight On Racism In Boston
12.04.2017 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Should Churches Practice Activism By Protesting Trump’s Immigration Policies?
11.27.2017 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Celebrating The Life Of Della Reese
11.13.2017 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Roy Moore Apologist Should Not Be Using The Bible To Defend Him
11.06.2017 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: When Places Of Refuge Are No Longer Safe
10.31.2017 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: One Year Since the Election
10.23.2017 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: The Democratic Idealism Of Black Lives Matter
09.11.2017 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Irene Monroe and Emmett Price discuss how religious leaders have reacted to the end of DACA.
08.21.2017 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: The End Of Days Or Just A Solar Eclipse?”
08.14.2017 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Trump Condemns Racism: Too Little Too Late?”
08.07.2017 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: ‘Detroit’ Missed An Opportunity To Explore Black History”
07.31.2017 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Should The N-Word Be Trademarked?”
07.24.2017 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: What If The South Had Won The Civil War?”
07.16.2017 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Does Bill Belichick’s Shirt Glamorize Violence?”
07.10.2017 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: What to Make of Martha Stewart Using the N-Word?”
06.26.2017 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Do Bostonians Think Their City is Racist?”
06.19.2017 – Irene on WGBH News: What Importance Does Cosby’s Career Have Now?
06.12.2017 – Irene on WGBH News: The Growing Influence Of The Religious Left
06.04.2017 – Irene on WGBH News: For Black Women, It’s Never As Simple As ‘It’s Just Hair’
05.22.2017 – Irene on WGBH News: All Revved Up: Why Mystic Valley’s Hair Extension Policy Is Wrong
05.08.2017 – Irene on WGBH News: Will Historically Black Schools Lose Important Funding?
05.01.2017 – Irene on WGBH News: Most Households Own A Bible, But Only Half Of Americans Have Read It
04.24.2017 – Irene on WGBH News: Why Did Aaron Hernandez Write ‘John 3:16’ On His Forehead Before He Died?
04.10.2017 – Irene on WGBH News: Theresa May’s Headscarf Comments Cause Controversy
04.03.2017 – Irene on WGBH News: Bill O’Reilly’s Comments About Rep. Maxine Waters’ Hair Were ‘Absolutely Rude And Disrespectful’
03.27.2017 – Irene on WGBH News: New York Museum Faces Protests Over White Artist’s Depiction Of Emmett Till
03.20.2017 – Irene on WGBH News: More Americans Than Ever Are Abandoning Religion
03.13.2017 – Irene on WGBH News: New Michael Brown Footage Is Eye-Opening, But Can It Change Minds?
03.06.2017 – Irene on WGBH News: All Revved Up: Can The Catholic Church Survive Much-Needed Criticism?
02.27.2017 – Irene on WGBH News: Pope Francis Tells Followers To Stop Living ‘Double Lives’
02.13.2017 – Irene on WGBH News: BPR Full Show 2/13/17: Politics, Space Savers, And A Grammy Win
02.13.2017 – Irene on WGBH News: Politically Charged Grammy Award Performance From A Tribe Called Quest Was ‘The Essence Of Hip-Hop’
01.30.2017 – Irene on WGBH News: A Christian Exception From Trump’s Refugee Ban? Two Reverends Object
01.23.2017 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Don’t Pray For Donald Trump
12.12.2016 – Irene on WGBH’s In The Charleston Shooting Trial: Can Hate And Forgiveness Coexist?
12.5.2016 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Prosperity Gospel, Politics and Private Jets
11.28.2016 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Betsy DeVos Will Be Secretary of Education, But Her Background Raises Concerns
11.21.2016 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: Mike Pence’s Not-So-Relaxing Night At The Theatre
11.14.2016 – Irene on WGBH’s All Revved Up: A Disastrous Opportunity
11.07.2016 – Betsy DeVos Will Be Secretary Of Education, But Her Background Raises Concerns Irene Monroe on WGBH News.
11.21.2016 – All Revved Up: Mike Pence’s Not-So-Relaxing Night At The Theatre Irene Monroe on WGBH News.
11.14.2016 – All Revved Up: A Disastrous Opportunity Irene Monroe on WGBH News.
11.07.2016 – One Day More Irene Monroe on WGBH News.
10.31.2016 – Are Boston Police Equipped To Deal With Mental Illness? Irene Monroe on WGBH News.
10.24.2016 – Is Donald Trump Having An Effect On Public Morality? WGBH News.
10.10.2016 – In St. Louis Presidential Debate, No Mention Of Race. Irene Monroe on WGBH News.
10.04.2016 – Serena Williams Speaks Out About Race in 2016, “Just because you’re a superstar and well-known, it doesn’t make… you immune to driving while black,” said Reverend Irene Monroe.
09.29.2016 – Irene Monroe: When It Comes To The Black Vote, Trump Has ‘Nothing To Lose’
09.19.2016 – All Revved Up: Is A Vote For Hillary A Vote For Obama’s Legacy?
09.12.2016 – What Is The Johnson Amendment And Why Is It Sending Trump To Heaven?
08.08.2016 – Irene on “Why Is Trump Polling Lower Than A KKK Leader Among Black Voters?”
08.03.2016 – All Revved Up: This is the New Civil Rights Movement, Says Irene Monroe
07.25.2016 – LISTEN: Would A ‘Pope Francis Catholic’ Help Or Hurt Clinton In The White House?
07.06.2016 – Alton Sterling’s Death Represents A Cultural Problem.
06.20.2016 – ‘O.J.: Made in America’ Contextualizes The Juice | Rev. Irene Monroe on WGBH News
06.13.2016 – BPR: Reverend’s Irene Monroe and Emmett Price joined us to discuss the tragedy in Orlando.
06.13.2016 – “All Revved Up: LGBTQ Clubs Are A Sacred Space”
05.09.2016 – Irene on WGBH’s “All Revved Up: Tupac Shakur’s Message For Donald Trump”
04.11.2016 – Irene on WGBH’s “Pope Watch: Love and Marriage”
04.04.2016 – Irene on WGBH’s “North Carolina And The Folly Of Legislating Behavior”
3.21.2016 – Irene on WGBH’s “All Revved Up: Is Cornel West Right To Criticize President Obama”
3.14.2016 – Irene on WGBH’s “Anti-Semitic Chants Haunt Newton North Basketball Game”
02.29.2016 – Irene on All Revved Up: WGBH’s “Chris Rock Oscars”
02.22.2016 – Irene on All Revved Up: Pope Approves Use Of Contraception For Zika
02.1.2016 – Irene on WGBH’s “Black Votes Matter: Hillary vs. Bernie In Iowa”
01.25.2016 – Irene on WGBH’s “Oscars White-Out Is The Perfect Storm”
01.18.2016 – Irene on WGBH’s “On MLK, Deconstructing The Debates, And Syrian Refuges In Jordan
01.18.2016 – Irene on WGBH’s “Martin Luther King: Flawed and Human”
01.04.2016 – Irene on WGBH’s “All Revved Up: Cosby Charged”
12.23.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “All Revved Up:Why Mormons Love Star Wars”
12.7.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “All Revved Up: Why The Black Community Won’t Call For More Guns”
11.30.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “All Revved Up: Laquan McDonald”
11.23.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “Donald Trump: Equal Opportunity Offender”
11.16.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “All Revved Up: Terrorism Has No Religion “
11.9.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “All Revved Up: Mizzou Controversy Is The Product Of A Racist Climate”
10.28.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “BPR: Cancerous Meat, Maura Healy, and All Revved Up”
10.19.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “Thoughtful Prayers and The Huxtables ”
9.14.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “All Revved Up: Bernie Sanders, Pope Watch, and Straight Outta Compton”
8.31.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “Does Donald Trump’s Religious Sincerity Matter?”
8.10.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “Ferguson Anniversary: A Step Ahead, And A Way Forward”
8.3.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “Civil Rights on the Funny Pages”
7.28.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “All Revved Up About the Death of Sandra Bland”
7.13.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “How Well Did We Know Atticus Finch?”
7.6.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “All Revved Up: Flags, Cops and Papal Visits”
6.29.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “All Revved Up: President Obama’s On A Mission”
6.1.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “All Revved Up About St. Francis X. Cabrini And the Pope”
5.18.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “Two Reverends Process The Moral Complexity Of The Tsarnaev Verdict”
5.11.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “BPR: Is ‘Negrotown’ Smart Satire Or Just Off-Key?”
5.4.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “BPR: How Close Is Boston To Another ‘Freddie Gray’ Moment?”
3.2.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “BPR: All Revved Up: The Civil Rights Legacy of AG Eric Holder”
2.23.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “BPR: All Revved Up: ‘Selma,’ Malcolm X, Pope Watch”
2.20.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “BPR: All Revved Up: Why the ‘Selma’ Soundtrack Deserves an Oscar”
2.20.2015 – Irene on Basic Black’s “Rediscovering Black History Month in Color”
2.20.2015 – Irene on Basic Black After the Broadcast: Malcolm X for a New Generation”
2.20.2015 – Irene on Basic Black After the Broadcast: Malcolm X for a New Generation”
1.26.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “BPR: Racial Profiling on Campus: ‘Every Black Man is a Suspect’”
1.19.2015 – Irene on WGBH’s “BPR: Would Dr. King Approve of the I93 Blockade?”
