We'll discuss the power of hip hop in social change and revolutionary movements with Morgan State University professor Jared Ball, author and graphic designer Darius Wilmore, Harrabic Tubman, co-founder of Existence is Resistance
Author Deanne Stillman joins us for a conversation on the threats to wild horses and her latest release Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West.
Dubbed "The Nannies' Norma Rae" by The New York Times, Ai-jen Poo has worked for over a decade advocating for the rights of domestic workers with Domestic Workers United. Today, she joins us to discuss organizing with immigrants for labor rights.
As the Executive Director for the Center for Community Change, Deepak Bhargava works to empower low-income people through community-building. Today, he joins us to discuss organizing for civil rights and economic justice.
Seth Rockman, historian from Brown University and co-editor of Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development sits down with us to discuss how slavery led to modern capitalism.
Join us for a conversation with cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher, better known as KAL, whose work is beloved both in his adopted hometown of Baltimore and throughout the world.
Today, we sit down with Lucas Benitez, who came to the United States as a teenager to help support his family by doing farmwork. As a response to the unfair treatment of farm laborers, he co-founded the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Florida.
Henry Red Cloud has spent over a decade working to bring green technology and renewable energy to some of the poorest communities in the United States. Currently, he runs the Lakota Solar Enterprises on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Join us as we sit down with poet and author Rodger Kamenetz to discuss dreams, how spirituality gets lost in modern life and his latest book: Burnt Books: Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and Franz Kafka.
This week on the show, we’ll speak with three farmers who work small parcels of land in Baltimore County. Becky and Jack Gurly operate Calvert’s Gift Farm in Sparks, MD, where they grow organic vegetables on 5 acres. They also help run a training program for new farmers.
We continue our coverage of the Perdue/Hudson lawsuit with this update on a bill that would require the University of Maryland Law Clinic to reimburse the Hudson family for their legal expenses.
Dr. Arnold Relman, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, has been leading the fight for a just and efficient system of health care in the United States for years. Currently a professor emeritus of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Relman joins us to weigh in on the national debate over health care reform.
Baltimore-born actor Josh Charles joins us to talk about the world of acting. He currently stars in the television series The Good Wife, and has played varied roles throughout his career in films and shows including Hairspray, Dead Poets Society, and Sports Night.
Join us for a conversation with motivational speaker, host of Listen Up and author of the newly released Finding Your Glasses: Revealing and Achieving Authentic Success Justin Jones- Fosu.
Today the U.S. Supreme Court is in its third day of hearings around President Obama's healthcare plan. Yesterday the high court heard oral arguments around the constitutionality of the requirement that most Americans obtain insurance or pay a penalty. What do you think? Do you endorse President Obama's healthcare plan, oppose it, or fall somewhere in between?
Baltimore's property tax rate is more than twice that of any county in Maryland, including those that immediately surround the city. Would cutting the Baltimore tax rate lead to an influx of new residents in the city? Would a lower rate lead to less revenue for the city and a need for budget cuts?
Jeff Clements, co-founder of Free Speech for People and author of Corporations Are Not People, joins us to discuss the movement to overturn Citizens United v.
Anthony McCarthy co-hosts as American Studies professor at UMBC Kimberly Moffitt, History professor at UMBC Michelle Scott and Associate Web Editor at United Republic Suzann
Author and journalist Chris Hedges joins us in the studio for a wide-ranging discussion of current events. He spent nearly 20 years as a foreign correspondent, working for the New York Times, NPR, and the Christian Science Monitor, among other news organizations.
Cheyenne-Arapaho artist Edgar Heap of Birds joins us to discuss his work and the place of Native American culture within the rest of American culture. Edgar will be speaking at MICA this Monday March 26th at noon; click here for more info.
Actors Powell Lawrence and Chinaza Uche join us to discuss the current of production of The Brothers Size, by playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore.
This week on the show, we’ll speak with three farmers who work small parcels of land in Baltimore County. Becky and Jack Gurly operate Calvert’s Gift Farm in Sparks, MD, where they grow organic vegetables on 5 acres. They also help run a training program for new farmers.
Join us for a conversation with Rangina Hamidi, who fled Afghanistan, where she was born, at the age of three during the Soviet occupation, returned in 2003 and led a program to create sustainable employment for women, and has once again fled the country due to security fears.
Gregg Hill, Coordinator for the Baltimore Algebra Project Advocacy Committee, Food Campaign Organizer Katherine Engleman and advocates Twan Jordan and Datwain Roberts join us to discuss their efforts to bring healthy, delicious food to school cafeterias.
17-year-old Trayvon Martin was killed by a member of a neighborhood watch group in Florida. As details of the case come out, calls for the arrest of his alleged killer have multiplied.
We discuss the tragic civilian massacre of March 11th, in which at least 16 Afghan civilians, including women and children, were killed. US Army staff sergeant Robert Bales is suspected of carrying out the killing spree. Three military veterans and one journalist join us this hour.
Lea Gilmore joins us to talk about today's headlines. Eric Sterling, President of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, joined Marc and Lea to talk about a medical marijuana bill making its way through the Maryland legislature. Then they spoke about the murder o
We're joined by Jesmyn Ward, whose novel Salvage the Bones, was the 2011 National Book Award winner for fiction.
Will Allen is a native of Rockville, Maryland, where he grew up on a small farm. After a career in the NBA, Allen returned to agriculture, but not by heading back to his family farm. Instead he's at the forefront of a new movement in urban agriculture called vertical farming, where levels of plants and aquaculture are stacked to maximize productivity on small parcels of inner city land.
Baltimore City Council members Mary Pat Clarke and Carl Stokes join us for an update on city issues, and to take questions from residents throughout the Baltimore area.
Gardnel Carter served almost 20 years in prison for attempted murder and robbery with a deadly weapon. Today, he works with Safe Streets East as a mediator to reduce violence in Baltimore.
This hour, a panel of Maryland teachers discuss the controversial new pay-for-performance teacher evaluation system that was implemented in Baltimore this school year.
This hour we take a look at the legacy of scholar and activist Derrick Bell, one of the founders of critical race theory, and the role that racism plays in US politics today.
Writer, director and lecturer at Morgan State University Darryl Wharton-Rigby joins us to take a look at Japan one year after the tsunami and earthquake.
Marwan Bishara, author of The Invisible Arab: The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolutions and senior political analyst for Al Jazeera joins us to discuss the events of the Arab Spring and the ongoing historical changes throughout the Arab world, and beyond.
First, MECU President Bert Hash and Director of the Baltimore CASH Campaign Sara Johnson join us to talk about Money Power Day, coming up Saturday March 10th. For more info on this free event providing financial services assistance, click here.
Anim Steel is Director of National Programs at the Food Project in Boston. Through his Real Food Project he's working to transform our food system by encouraging colleges and universities to purchase $1 billion in local food by 2020. He joined us to discuss how his personal history led him to the world of food justic
Iranian-American poet, journalist and writer Roya Hakakian joins us to share her perspective on Iran-U.S. relations.
Super Tuesday yielded no Republican presidential nominee, so the campaigns of Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, and Paul continue.
In 1982, James Q. Wilson co-authored an article in the Atlantic Monthy, called "Broken Windows." The article advocated a new view of policing that encouraged the rigid enforcement of crimes like vandalism, which he saw as precursors to more serious crimes. The theory continues to be used in various forms
Today we asses the threat of military action against Iran. We're joined by: Reza Marashi, Research Director for the National Iranian American Council, and Michael Rubin, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and
In February, the Supreme Court of Georgia decided to strike the state's assisted-suicide law which resulted in the halt of prosecution again the nonprofit organization Final Exit Network and its activists.
Two volunteers from the Final Exit Network, Nick Sheridan and Dr. Larry Egbert join us to discuss the case.