April 2013

April 29, 2013

Executive Takeover Of Prince George’s County School Board

April 29, 2013 -Segment 2 - We will discuss the latest controversy surrounding the Prince George's County school board as some residents oppose Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker's power to appoint three members to the school board.
April 25, 2013

Race, Class, and Gender in Prison Culture

April 25, 2013 -Segment 1- We continue our conversation about the federal indictments naming 25 people, including corrections officers at Baltimore City Detention Center and members of the Black Guerilla Family, with racketeering, drug and money laundering charges.
April 25, 2013

Sound Bites: Could Maryland See The Privatization Of Inspections For The Poultry Industry?

April 25, 2013 - Segment 2- We'll discuss proposed cuts in the 2014 federal budget to the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service which would remove government inspectors from slaughter facilities.
April 24, 2013

The Story Of The Desegregation Of Gwynn Oak Park

April 24, 2013 - Segment 3 - We turn to an important piece of Baltimore Civil Rights history as we talk with filmmaker Pete O'Neal about his new documentary, All the King's Horses: The Story of Gwynn Oak Park. The film explores the struggle in the 1960s to desegregate Baltimore's Gwynn Oak Park.
April 24, 2013

Are We Trading Rights For Security?

April 24, 2013 - Segment 1 - Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com staff writer, joins us to talk about his recent article "How Boston Exposes America's Dark Post-9/11 Bargain." O'Hehir argues that U.S. residents have traded their rights for alleged security, but in actuality have received neither in return.
April 23, 2013

Baltimore City Detention Center Corrections Officers Indicted

April 23, 2013 - Segment 3 - Today, a federal indictment named 25 people, including Baltimore City Detention Center corrections officers and members of the Black Guerilla Family, who face racketeering, drug and money laundering charges. We'll speak with United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein.
April 23, 2013

Update On Fertilizer Plant Explosion

April 23, 2013 - Segment 2 - We're joined by Martha Rosenberg, writer for OpEdNews.org and author of Born With a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks, and Hacks Pimp the Public Health. Rosenberg discusses the ongoing situation in West, Texas, where a fertilizer plant exploded last week.
April 18, 2013

Sound Bites: Agricultural Policy, Transforming the Food System, and a Seasonal Pumpkin Recipe

April 18, 2013 - Segment 3 - This week on Sound Bites, Wenonah Hauter teaches us about the consolidation of the food industry, we bring you Real Food Challenge's second national summit on changing the food system, and raw and vegan food chef Skai Davis shares a seasonal pumpkin recipe.
April 17, 2013

Seven Inmates Killed In Seven Months In Baltimore

April 17, 2013 - Segment 2 - A recent Baltimore Sun article stated that seven prisoners have been killed in Maryland prisons within the past seven months. We'll discuss that as well as efforts to curb violence in prisons.
April 17, 2013

Ethel Ennis: Baltimore’s First Lady Of Jazz Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

April 17, 2013 - Segment 1 - Today we are joined by legendary jazz singer Ethel Ennis. Known as Baltimore's first lady of jazz, she will be honored by the Creative Alliance with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Marquee Ball this weekend.
April 16, 2013

Shackling Incarcerated Pregnant Women In Maryland

April 16, 2013 - Segment 2 - We continue our coverage of a bill that was introduced in the Maryland Legislature this past session, which would have prohibited the shackling of incarcerated pregnant women and women in labor.
April 11, 2013

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

April 11, 2013 - Hour 2 - Jeanne Theoharis joins us to speak about her new book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. The book is the first critical biography of Parks, and it is revealing and comprehensive, exploring her activism before, during, and after her famous act of protest in 1955.
April 11, 2013

Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism In Post-Racial America

April 11, 2013 - Hour 1 - Michael Higginbotham joins us to speak about his latest book, Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America. The book explores how laws and systemic prejudice have maintained racial hierarchy and separation, both historically and today.
April 10, 2013

Color Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball’s Color Line

April 10, 2013 - Hour 2 - Meshelle and Stacie Sanders-Evans join us as we talk to Tom Dunkel, author of Color Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball's Color Line, a book about an integrated baseball team in Bismarck, North Dakota a decade before Jackie Robinson.
April 10, 2013

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History Of Medical Experimentation On Black Americans

April 10, 2013 - Hour 1 - Author and songwriter John Milton Wesley co-hosts the show with Marc, and Dr. Harriet A. Washington joins us to talk about her book, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, about the history of racial disparities in medicine.
April 9, 2013

The Kill Hole: New Film Explores Impact Of PTSD On Iraq War Veterans

April 9, 2013 - Hour 2 - Lester Spence co-hosts a conversation with Mischa Webley, writer and director of The Kill Hole, a new war drama about the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on soldiers returning home from Iraq.
April 9, 2013

Mrs. Paul Robeson’s Unconventional Life

April 9, 2013 - Hour 1 - We talk to Barbara Ransby, historian, writer, longtime activist, and Professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, about her newest book Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson.
April 9, 2013

The Double V: How Wars, Protest and Harry Truman Desegregated America’s Military

April 8, 2013 - Segment 1 - Co-host Anthony McCarthy joins us for a conversation with Rawn James, Jr., author of The Double V: How Wars, Protest and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military, a book that explores the struggle of black soldiers to achieve equality during World War II.
April 4, 2013

Sound Bites: Monsanto Rider, Food & Ag News, Alternatives To The GDP

April 4, 2013 - Segment 3 - We debate the Monsanto Rider, which caused a storm when it was anonymously inserted into the Agricultural Appropriations Bill passed by Congress, the latest food and agricultural news, and how we might measure an economy beyond the GDP.
April 4, 2013

Funny, Fierce, And Fabulous: The Cabaret

April 4, 2013 - Segment 1 - We talk to Meshelle, "The Indie-Mom of Comedy" and Founder of Goaldiggers The Sankofa Project, about an event coming up this weekend at 7pm on Sunday, April 7th at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore.
April 3, 2013

Baltimore Outreach Services: Women & Children Find Shelter, Empowerment

April 3, 2013 - Hour 2 - We visit Baltimore Outreach Services' shelter for women and children in South Baltimore, one of only four shelters for women and children. We speak to shelter staff, learn about the culinary arts program, and hear the stories of the women themselves effected by the economic crisis.