This hour we discuss the dynamics of gender. Are men and women innately different or do we conform to societal expectations?
David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, joins us to talk about his new book "Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution." He discusses the role of cities in the current global uprisings, historical precedents like the Paris Commune, and social movements in Baltimore.
Join us for a discussion with astrophysicist and Director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson on his new book, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier.
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.
This month marks what would have been legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday.
Award-winning playwright and rapper Will Power, a pioneer of hip-hop theatre, joins us to discuss his work, including his play Fetch Clay, Make Man.
Author Rebecca Walker, who edited the new book Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness, joins us to discuss the definition of coolness within African American culture.
Author Lawrence P. Jackson joins us to discuss the journey he took through his family's history, and the history of African Americans descended from slaves, which he documents in his new book My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family After the Civil War.
Producers Mark Gunnery and Bobby Holmes covered the Green Party national convention in Baltimore. This Segment includes excerpts from Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein's acceptance speech and interviews with Stein's campaign manager Ben Manski, Baltimore Green Party chair Brian Bittner and 2010 Green Party Maryland gubernatorial candidate Maria Allwine.
Theresa Runstedtler, author of the new book Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner, joins us for an exploration of the life of the first African American World Heavyweight Champion of boxing, Jack Johnson.
In his latest book, Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence, author Alan Gilbert details the struggle for African-Americans to gain freedom by joining British imperialists during the Revolutionary War.
Join us for an Urbanite Radio story with Dario DiBattista, an Iraq War Veteran and author of the memoir Go Now, You Are Forgiven.
Author Rachel L. Swarns joins us to discuss her latest book, American Tapestry: The Black, White and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama. Rachel will be speaking at the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore tomorrow, July 18th, at 6:30pm. Click here for more info.
We are joined by Baltimore City Council members William Cole, Bill Henry, Nick Mosby and Mary Pat Clarke to discuss the recent Baltimore budget vote hearing and the preliminary vote hearing to audit city agencies.
Here is our interview with Green Party 2012 Vice Presidential Candidate Cheri Honkala, which was taped at the Green Party Presidential Nominating Convention in Baltimore this weekend.
Join the conversation as Anthony McCarthy and Marc Steiner will turn to more of the latest news topics, both local and national.
Listen in as Mary Alice Ernish, founder of Audit Baltimore, joins us live from City Hall, where she will help us examine the City of Baltimore's financial auditing practices.
Anthony McCarthy joins us as a co-host as we look at why and how the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) scandal affects us.
Grass farmer Stephen Belkoff of Forever Endeavor Farm in Baldwin, MD joins us to talk about raising livestock and how government regulations affect small farms on this week’s episode of Sound Bites.
Former heroin addict, HIV survivor, treatment outreach worker for the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Bert Queen joins us to discuss her experiences and her work, along with independent producer and medical student Scott Goldberg, who produced a piece on Bert, "The Queen of East Baltimore," that we will hear duri
NAACP's 103rd annual convention is taking place in Houston, and Anthony McCarthy joins us for a live update from the convention.
The 2012 Green Party Presidential Nominating Convention is in Baltimore today through the weekend, and Green Party 2012 Presidential candidate Jill Stein joins the Steiner Show for an interview.
Listen in as we talk about Baltimore's Fraternal Order of Police issuing today a "Blueprint for Improved Policing
Do U.S. government agencies such as the NSA have the right to perform wiretapping without warrants?
This evening Meshelle the Indie Mom of Comedy joins us as a co-host and we take a look at the Langston Hughes Literary Forum and Book Fair, taking place in Baltimore tomorrow, with event organizer Lou Fields and Dr.
Listen in as we the discuss the Texas Voter ID law and issues of voter rights and voter disenfranchisement around the United States with Ari Berman, contributing writer for The Nation Magazine, Deborah Vagins of The American Civil Liberty Union and Rev.
Today, we discuss the Obama tax policy with Scott Klinger, Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, Phil Kerpen, President of American Commitment and columnist for Fox News Opinion and Cynthia Gordy, Senior Political Correspondent for the
Join the Steiner Show as we return to the topic of Baltimore fire station closings, with:
Rick Hoffman, president of Baltimore Fire Fighters IAFF Local 734;
Did you know that people come from across the country to go fly fishing on Baltimore County's beautiful Gunpowder River?
In these hot summer months, though, the fly fishers have competition with others trying to enjoy the river by "tubing" down it. Some say the tubers are destroying the peace and quiet, as well as the environment.
Listen in for a discussion of Campaign Finance Reform. Joining us are:
Trae Lewis, President of the Baltimore Area Young Republicans;
and Lindsay Mark Lewis, Executive Director of the Progressive Policy Institute.
Listen in as we ask if a commonly used herbicide causes cancer? Biologist Tyrone Hayes and farmer Mark Fuchs, from New Hope Farm in Denton, MD, join us to offer opposing viewpoints on the herbicide atrazine.
After Baltimore's City Council voted down a proposed charter amendment that would have required that each city agency be audited every two years this week, we will discuss said charter admendments to reform Baltimore City with City Councilman Bill Henry of District 4 and writer
Eureka! Today on the Steiner Show, we will focus on the latest discovery of Higgs Boson, and how the particle answers questions on how the universe was created.
Bruce Jacobs, author of Race Manners, will join us to discuss race relations in the 21st Century.
Join us as we talk about the disbandment of three Baltimore City fire companies with Mark Reutter from the Baltimore Brew and Baltimore City Fire Department Chief James Clack.
Listen in as we will be joined by investigative journalist Katherine Eban and deputy Managing Editor of the National Review Robert Verbruggen to discuss Operation: Fast and Furious, an ATF investigation that allowed gun smuggler
Our guest this hour is author, innovator, former Obama White House advisor, and activist Van Jones. Jones is an internationally renowned human rights and clean energy advocate, and is co-founder of the Rebuild the Dream campaign, a platform for ways that regular people can help transform the U.S. economy.
Olympian and human rights activist John Carlos joins us at 5pm along with Dave Zirin, co-author of The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That C
If you live in Baltimore, do you have electricity? In the wake of Friday night's violent thunderstorm, many Baltimore area residents and businesses remain without power, and trees still block major roadways.
If you live in the Baltimore area, you most likely heard about the tragedy that occurred a couple weeks ago, when an off-duty Baltimore County police officer strangled to death a Randallstown teenager, Christopher Brown.