Imari Paris Jeffries, president and CEO of Embrace Boston, joins The Culture Show every month.

With Memorial Day approaching, we’re going to get his take on the role black military members have played in U.S. history, from emancipation to protecting our democracy, and how recent developments in local government are supporting Embrace Boston’s call for reparations.

From there, we’re fashion forward, backward and everything in between. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is making a fashion statement with its new exhibit “Dress Up.” With more than 150 objects on view, it is a survey of the history and histrionics of fashion, from fast fashion, to fashion as fantasy, to fashion as identity. theo tyson, curator of Fashion Arts at the MFA, joins us to talk about the exhibit.

Finally, GBH’s Haley Lerner and Molly McCaul–our resident live music experts– give us a preview of “Boston Calling,” one of the region’s largest music festivals.

Writer Flannery O’Connory was a devout Catholic. She grew up in Georgia and eventually lived on a farm among peacocks. She negotiated life under the threat of looming death because she had lupus. But her imagination took her elsewhere. Mostly to peculiar places, often violent ones, where prophets, sinners and outsiders sought truth and redemption.

Now her biography, her characters and her life of the mind converge in the new film “Wildcat.” It’s directed by Ethan Hawke, he also co-wrote it with Shelby Gaines and it stars his daughter, Maya Hawke as Flannery O’Connor.

Ethan Hawke joined The Culture Show ahead of his event at Coolidge Corner Theatre for a screening, followed by a Q and A on May 23rd and May 24th.

From there we meet the artists behind an upcoming exhibit at the South Shore Art Center titled “Young Black Woman|Old White Man.” It shows two very different perspectives and experiences of events that have rattled the world: From the murder of George Floyd to the January 6th insurrection.

It features the work of Devyn Casey, an artist and art teacher based in Norfolk, Virginia and South Shore artist James Burke. Opening night is May 30th, the exhibit is on through June 30th.

Finally, writer Lucas Mann joins us to talk about his latest book, Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances.” Lucas Mann teaches English at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and lives in Providence, Rhode Island where he and his wife co-own Riffraff Bookstore and Bar.

Coming up on the Culture Show, live from our GBH studio at the Boston Public Library, it’s our arts and culture week-in-review.

First up, The Red Scare. The new portrait of King Charles III is saturated in reds and sparking controversy. Is it a monarchy masterpiece? Or a monstrosity?

Then we remember culinary legend Jasper White who elevated New England’s food scene by taking us out of the era of plain old corn pudding and fish chowder with a series of successful seafood restaurants, including Summer Shack.

Plus, a live stream installation connecting Dublin to New York City has been shut down because people are using the exhibition to be exhibitionists baring bosoms, butts, and beyond.