May 31, 2013
May 31, 2013 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with filmmaker Roy T. Anderson, who talks about his film Akwantu: the Journey, a documentary that explores the history of The Maroons, enslaved Africans who won their freedom in Jamaica.
May 31, 2013
May 31, 2013 - Segment 4 - Sheila Ebelein and Mariya Shchesyuk of the Glenham-Belhar Community Association and NoRoFoHamilton opposition group join us for an update on the conflict between Hamilton community activists and Royal Farms. Residents of the Northeast Baltimore community are fighting the expansion of the convenient store that could impede traffic.
May 31, 2013
May 31, 2013 - Segment 3 - It's time for our weekly news round-up on the latest headlines including the controversy surrounding the George Zimmerman trial for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, Washington Redskins name, US Attorney General Eric Holder.
May 31, 2013
May 31, 2013 - Segment 2 - We have an update on George Zimmerman and his second-degree-murder trial in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin from Jenée Desmond-Harris, staff writer and White House correspondent for The Root.
May 31, 2013
May 31, 2013 - Segment 1 - Harford County Executive David Craig joins us to discuss his bid for governor in 2014.
May 30, 2013
May 30, 2013 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with Ojeda Hall, Lead Organizer for BUILD (Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development), and Terra Hiltner, BUILD Historian, who join us to talk about an exhibit, "Learning, Listening, Leading: BUILD's 35 Years of Organizing in Baltimore City."
May 30, 2013
May 30, 2013 - Segment 3 - We analyze the conflict occurring right now in Syria with Omar Hossino, Stephen Zunes, and Adil Shamoo.
May 30, 2013
May 30, 2013 - Segment 2 - Jesselyn Radack and Kevin Zeese update us on the trial starting next week for US Army soldier Bradley Manning, who was arrested in 2010 on suspicion of handing over classified Army documents to whistle blower Wikileaks.
May 30, 2013
May 30, 2013 - Segment 1 - We open a dialogue between two cities facing tough decisions on the future of education and schools: Chicago and Baltimore. Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that 50 schools in the district will be closed, and Baltimore City's plan for the coming decade includes closing underutilized schools and placing emphasis on renovations and new school construction.
May 29, 2013
March 29, 2013 - Segment 4 - This weekend, a 16-month-old named Carter Scott was tragically shot and killed in Cherry Hill. We discuss that and hear about community efforts to curb violence in Baltimore with Delaino Johnson, Safe Streets Outreach Worker for Cherry Hill and Cameron Miles, Director of Mentoring Male Teens in the Hood.
May 29, 2013
March 29, 2013 - Segment 3 - May 29 marks the 162nd anniversary of Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech. Lea Gilmore joins us for a reading of that speech. Then, we discuss African American women and feminism with Lea Gilmore, dream hampton, Jodi Kelber-Kaye, and A. Adar Ayira.
May 29, 2013
March 29, 2013 - Segment 2 - Journalist, author, and Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University Farai Chideya joins us to talk about the lack of diversity in media.
May 29, 2013
March 29, 2013 - Segment 1 - Medea Benjamin joins us to talk about her new book "Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control." A prominent anti-war activist and co-founder of Code Pink, Benjamin made headlines last week when she disrupted President Obama's foreign policy speech.
May 28, 2013
May 28, 2013 - Hour 2 - On this live episode of Sound Bites, we discuss urban farming with Five Seeds Farm and the Baltimore Free Farm, the Senate's amendments to the Farm Bill that would bar people convicted of violent crimes from receiving benefits for life, and fermentation with Sandor Katz.
May 28, 2013
May 28, 2013 - Hour 1 - We discuss reports this week that indicated the City's plan to demolish blocks of majority-vacant housing around the city, relocate the few residents living on those blocks, and construct community gardens in their place. We talk to a panel of experts about what this means for the future of Baltimore.
May 28, 2013
May 27, 2013-Segment 2-A veteran from the Baltimore ghetto tells how he survived the despair of war and transformed himself.
May 28, 2013
May 27, 2013-Segment 1-We continue the journey with Vietnam Veteran Homer Steedly as he meets with the family of the Vietnamese soldier he killed forty years before.
May 24, 2013
May 24, 2013 - Segment 3 - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Leonard Pitts, Jr. discusses his compelling new novel, Freeman. The novel begins the day slavery ended in the U.S. and is about the existential and real struggle over what it means to be free.
May 24, 2013
May 24, 2013 - Segment 2 - We look at at the events unfolding in Guatemala following last week's guilty verdict for former dictator General Efraín Ríos Montt, its overturning, and possible implications for the U.S.
May 24, 2013
May 24, 2013 - Segment 1 - We host a political roundtable to examine the week's events, including President Obama's speech yesterday outlining his administration's policies on drone warfare and Guantanamo Bay.
May 23, 2013
May 23, 2013 - Segment 3 - We analyze President Obama's messages to Black America, looking at his recent commencement speeches with Kai Wright, Dr. Kimberly Moffitt, and Keith Snipes.
May 23, 2013
May 23, 2013 - Segment 2 - We discuss military culture in the wake of news that three high-ranking military officers tasked with preventing sexual assault were themselves accused of sexual assault.
May 23, 2013
May 23, 2013 - Segment 1 - We talk about the issues facing the state of Maryland with Howard County Executive Ken Ulman, who is expected to run for governor in 2014.
May 22, 2013
May 22, 2013 - Hour 2 - We talk about Arena Players, the longest running continuously operating African-American community theater in the U.S. Then we discuss The Caretaker, Harold Pinter's classic play, currently at Performance Workshop Theatre. Since May 21 would have been The Notorious B.I.G.'s 41st birthday, we will discuss his legacy.
May 22, 2013
May 22, 2013 - Hour 1 - This week on Sound Bites, we learn about a study measuring arsenic in the chicken we eat, seed giant Monsanto's victory in the Supreme Court, and oyster restoration projects in the Chesapeake Bay. Then, we talk to Michael Moss about his book on processed food and America's obesity crisis: Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us.
May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with the energetic voices of the Baltimore Citywide Youth Poetry Team - this year comprised completely of young talented women - who will be representing Baltimore at the 16th Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam in August in Chicago.
May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 - Segment 4 - We are joined by A. F. James MacArthur, blogger for the Baltimore Spectator, who was recently released after spending several months in jail following a standoff last December with the police.
May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 - Segment 3 - We turn to a debate over the IRS and Tea Party scandal, with columnist and political analyst Edward Wyckoff Williams, and political analyst Lenny McAllister, who calls himself the "Working Man's Conservative."
May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 - Segment 2 - We discuss Islam and peace with Faheem Younus, National Secretary of Education for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland.
May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 - Segment 1 - We get an update on the powerful, monster tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma yesterday, killing at least 51 people. While initial reports ranked this tornado EF-4, the second most powerful kind of tornado, there is evidence that the tornado might be upgraded to EF-5, indicating speeds over 200mph.
May 20, 2013
May 20, 2013 - Segment 3 - Yesterday was the anniversary of Malcolm X's birth, who would have turned 88. We host a conversation about Malcolm X's legacy and his relevance for today with Paul Coates, Kevin Alexander Gray, Frederick Harris, and Jared Ball.
May 20, 2013
May 20, 2013 - Segment 2 - The Baltimore City Council voted last week on a piece of legislation that would require businesses receiving contracts from the city to hire 51% of the new workers from Baltimore City, or face sanctions. The City law department has indicated that such a mandate would be unconstitutional.
May 20, 2013
May 20, 2013 - Segment 1 - According to a Department of Justice study released last week, the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup has higher-than-average rates of inmate abuse with nearly 13 percent of inmates at that facility reported being abused either by a fellow inmate or staff member.
May 17, 2013
May 17, 2013 - Segment 4 - We close our show with a fascinating tour through Mt. Auburn Cemetery, the oldest African American cemetery in Baltimore, for which a 7-year restoration process was recently completed under the direction of Morgan State University (MSU).
May 17, 2013
May 17, 2013 - Segment 3 - We talk with artist Mina Cheon, AKA Kim IL Soon, and Ethan Cohen of Ethan Cohen Fine Arts in New York City about the work of this Socialist Realist painter from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and how her work is tied to a quest for the reunification of Korea and global peace.
May 17, 2013
May 17, 2013 - Segment 2 - We talk national politics with the recent scrutiny and criticism of the Obama administration over the IRS scandal and the AP investigation with Ari Berman, Jordan Bloom, and Gabe Rottman.
May 17, 2013
May 17, 2013 - Segment 1 - DeWayne Wickham, Chair of the MSU Department of Communication Studies, join us in-studio. Among other topics, we will discuss the exciting launch of MSU’s new School of Global Journalism and Communications.
May 16, 2013
May 16, 2013 - Segment 4 - We talk about the state of our community schools, after-school programs, and out-of-school time after cuts to funding with a local principal, parent, and Jake Berzoff-Cohen, Organizer for the Child First Authority.
May 16, 2013
May 16, 2013 - Segment 3 - We talk about a big event coming to Baltimore: the American Alliance of Museums' Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo, which brings a world audience to our city and many special events to our city's museums.
May 16, 2013
May 16, 2013 - Segment 2 - Symbolie "Monique" Smith joins us. She shares her personal story of being abducted, exploited, and raised by a woman she came to find out later in life was not actually her mother.
May 16, 2013
May 16, 2013 - Segment 1 - We talk about both the praise and controversy over actress Angelina Jolie's decision to have a preventative double mastectomy after testing positive for the BRCA1 gene, which indicated she would likely develop breast cancer in her lifetime. We talk about the genes at the center of her decision, genes that are patented and whose expensive diagnostic tests are inaccessible for many ordinary people.
May 15, 2013
May 15, 2013 - Segment 3 - We speak about 30 Women, 30 Stories: Journeys of Recovery and Transformation, a new book and exhibit about the courageous women of Marian House, a Baltimore institution that has offered rehabilitative services and housing to homeless women and their children for the past 30 years.
May 15, 2013
May 15, 2013 - Segment 2 - Delegate Heather Mizeur (District 20, Montgomery County) joins us in-studio to talk about her vision for Maryland. She is expected to run for Governor in 2014.
May 15, 2013
May 15, 2013 - Segment 1 - We launch our first live episode of Sound Bites with conversations about African-American farmers in the US, dwindling bee populations, and a program that collects produce donated by farmers and distributes it to people who don't have access to healthy food sources, through local hospitals, meal programs, and faith communities.
May 13, 2013
May 14, 2013 - Segment 3 - We reflect on the life and death of Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of Malcolm X, who was beat to death in an attempted robbery in Mexico City on Thursday, with Fred Hampton, Jr., Dr. Randy Short, and Dave Zirin.
May 13, 2013
May 14, 2013 - Segment 2 - It's time for some Theatre Baltimore! Eric Berryman, one of the stars of Topdog/Underdog, stops by to talk about the play in which two African-American brothers were named Lincoln and Booth respectively... as a joke.
May 13, 2013
May 14, 2013 - Segment 1 - We start the show with a discussion of evil in the wake of the Cleveland kidnapping case. What makes seemingly normal people commit the most heinous acts? Are people committing evil acts sociopaths, or is this another instance of the banality of evil? Is evil even the right word to describe this?
May 13, 2013
May 13, 2013-Segment 1- Baltimore City Public Schools Superintendent Andres Alonso announced that he is resigning his post to move back to New Jersey and spend time with his family. Our panelists will assess Alonso's time in office.
May 13, 2013
May 13, 2013-Segment 2- We spoke with 2014 Maryland gubernatorial hopeful, Lt. Governor Anthony Brown.
May 13, 2013
May 13, 2013 -Segment 3 - Through a different lens, we examined the news last week that three women in Cleveland had been abducted and held in confinement for a decade.