October 30, 2014
October 30, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with defense attorney Russell A. Neverdon, Sr.,write-in candidate for Baltimore City State's Attorney, who joins us in-studio to talk about his vision for Baltimore's future.
October 30, 2014
October 30, 2014 - Segment 3 - We take a look at The Whiteness Project, an interactive investigation into how Americans who identify themselves as "white" experience their ethnicity, with the creator of that project and a roundtable of guests.
October 30, 2014
October 30, 2014 - Segment 2 - With the elections coming up next Tuesday, listen in to a rebroadcast of my interview with Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan and his Lieutenant Governor candidate Boyd Rutherford.
October 30, 2014
October 30, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day African American quilter Harriet Powers was born, the day Jam Master Jay from Run-DMC was murdered, and the day Pontiac informed Major Henry Gladwin that he wanted peace and an end to the fighting at Fort Detroit.
October 30, 2014
October 29, 2014 - Segment 5 - City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods joins us to tell us what's in this week's issue of the City Paper.
October 30, 2014
October 29, 2014 - Segment 4 - We discuss a debate that is raging around the Baltimore County Animal Services (BCAS). BCAS has banned volunteers from photographing animals in the shelter, and the ACLU of Maryland has weighed in on the topic, calling the ban unconstitutional. J
October 30, 2014
October 29, 2014 - Segment 3 - We discuss some issues around Ebola, including the question of quarantines and how the virus is transmitted.
October 30, 2014
October 29, 2014 - Segment 2 - We celebrate the 150th anniversary of a very special day in history, Maryland Emancipation Day, which commemorates the day Maryland became the first slave state to free its slaves by popular vote, when the Maryland Legislature adopted a new state constitution that emancipated them.
October 30, 2014
October 29, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Benito Mussolini's appointment as Prime Minister of Italy, the 1929 New York Stock Exchange crash that launched the Great Depression, and Mohammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, winning his first professional fight.
October 28, 2014
October 28, 2014 - Segment 4 - It's the newest episode of Sound Bites, our weekly show on our food, our world, and our future! We begin the hour with a poll released last week indicating that 93% of all doctors are concerned about the routine use of antibiotics on healthy farm animals, and discuss poultry farms being fined over Chesapeake Bay pollution. We also visit Hidden Harvest Farm in Baltimore City.
October 28, 2014
October 28, 2014 - Segment 3 - I'm joined by world-renowned Afro-Cuban Filmmaker Gloria Rolando, who is currently visiting and speaking at Morgan State University on telling African diaspora history history through film.
October 28, 2014
October 28, 2014 - Segment 2 - I talk with the inimitable Dr. Cornel West! The author and Union Theological Seminary professor joins me to discuss his new book Black Prophetic Fire. In Black Prophetic Fire, West offers a new perspective on 6 ninetheenth- and twentieth century African American leaders
October 28, 2014
October 28, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Christopher Columbus arrived in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World, the day Eli Whitney applied for a patent for the cotton gin, and the day Oliver Edward Nelson, jazz musician, arranger and composer, died.
October 28, 2014
October 27, 2014 - Segment 4 - We are joined by Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist for The Nation and the Guardian. She discusses her latest book "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate."
October 28, 2014
October 27, 2014 - Segment 3 - We host a local and state news roundtable, examine the upcoming elections and more
October 27, 2014
October 27, 2014 - Segment 2 - Maryland gubernatorial candidate Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown joins us to talk about his vision for the future of our state.
October 27, 2014
October 27, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the founding of Philadelphia, the day Catholic priest Phillip Berrigan and others of the Baltimore Four protested the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records at the Custom House in Baltimore, and the opening of the first underground New York subway.
October 27, 2014
October 24, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with a discussion of ROOTSfest and an event reflecting on it, with Alternate ROOT, Culture Works and community artist Ashley Minner.
October 27, 2014
October 24, 2014 - Segment 3 - We ask the question, based on an article in this week's Atlantic magazine: "Can Homeless People Move into Baltimore's Abandoned Houses?" With Jeff Singer, Tony Simmons and Rachel Kutler.
October 27, 2014
October 24, 2014 - Segment 2 - Listen to my live interview with Piper Kerman, whose best-selling memoir of her time in prison, Orange is the New Black, is the basis for the popular television series of the same name. Kerman will be speaking at Center Stage in Baltimore on Monday as part of the Open Society Institute-Baltimore's Big Change event.
October 27, 2014
October 24, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the Department of Labor reporter 500,000 Blacks had left the South between 1922-1923, the birthday of The Big Bopper, and the day civil rights activist Rosa Parks passed away.
October 26, 2014
October 23, 2014 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with a special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show, our conversation with civil rights litigator and legal scholar Michelle Alexander about mass incarceration and African Americans. Alexander is the author of the highly-acclaimed book The New Jim Crow.
October 26, 2014
October 23, 2014 - Segment 4 - I talk with playwright George Brant, who wrote the current production at Everyman Theatre, Grounded. Brant is a Core Writer at the Playwrights' Center whose work has been produced internationally.
October 26, 2014
October 23, 2014 - Segment 3 - We discuss the growing synergy between African American and Palestinian activists in the U.S., and discuss the points of unity and tension within Black and Arab communities.
October 26, 2014
October 23, 2014 - Segment 2 - Marc speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist James Risen about his powerful new book, Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War. Risen documents a "homeland security-industrial complex" that has emerged since the events of 9/11.
October 26, 2014
October 23, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of Michael Eric Dyson and Gummo Marx, the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the launch of the 1790 revolt in Haiti.
October 26, 2014
October 22, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with a very special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show. Listen in to my 2010 interview with poet, activist and author Dr. Sonia Sanchez. The author of over 16 books, Sanchez is an expert on Black culture and literature, women's liberation, and racial justice.
October 26, 2014
October 22, 2014 - Segment 3 - We talk with Baltimore City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods for our weekly check-in. This week's City Paper features an interview with new Baltimore City Schools CEO Dr. Gregory Thornton.
October 26, 2014
October 22, 2014 - Segment 2 - Listen to our conversation on Afro-Veganism and hear a sneak preview of an exciting and delicious festival taking place this weekend in Baltimore: Vegan SoulFest! The free event features vegan food, nutrition experts, vegan cooking demonstrations and more.
October 26, 2014
October 22, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of women's rights advocate Abigail Scott Duniway, the birthday of Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale, and the day 225 thousand students boycotted Chicago, IL schools to protest de facto segregation in 1963.
October 21, 2014
October 21, 2014 - Segment 3 - In our latest episode of Sound Bites we examine the power of large institutions in purchasing food. We discuss both conventional and non-industrial agriculture in the context of institutional food buying. The panel participated in a wide-ranging discussion about the benefits, challenges and future of both models.
October 21, 2014
October 21, 2014 - Segment 2 - We continue our conversation on Ebola, and talk about health and political issues surrounding Ebola, treatment, public health implications, and Ebola in the United States.
October 21, 2014
October 21, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the death of Jack Kerouac, the birth of Ursula K. Le Guin, and when William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of the Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper, was drug through the streets of Boston, MA, by a pro-slavery mob in 1835.
October 20, 2014
October 20, 2013 - Segment 3 - We host a panel on the racial divides in the artistic world in Baltimore, inspired by articles in last week's Baltimore City Paper's 2014 Fall Arts Guide. With Kalima Young, Baynard Woods, Deana Haggag and Mia Loving.
October 20, 2014
October 20, 2014 - Segment 2 - We get an update on events in Ferguson, Missouri, with a number of young journalists and activists who recently returned from that troubled city: freelance reporter Michelle Zei; Muna Mire, intern for The Nation; Ralikh Hayes, executive assistant for the Real News Network and and Board President of the Baltimore Algebra Project; and Megan Sherman, producer at the Real News Network.
October 20, 2014
October 20, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1952 arrest of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the death of socialist leader Eugene V. Debs, and the birth of poet Arthur Rimbaud.
October 20, 2014
October 17, 2014 - Segment 2 - Dr. Karsonya "Kaye" Whitehead, Assistant Professor of Communication and Affiliate Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland, talks about her book Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis, which recently received the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award for the Best Edited Book in African American History from the Association of Black Women Historians.
October 20, 2014
October 17, 2014 - Segment 1 - Listen to Marc's interview with Native American author, historian, feminist, and self-described revolutionary Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her fascinating and informative book An Indigenous People’s History of the United States.
October 16, 2014
October 16, 2014 - Segment 2 - Listen to a very special treat when I interview a true Baltimore icon, the legendary filmmaker and author John Waters! John joins me to talk about his fifty-year career, his recent book Carsick, and a recent tribute and retrospective at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, “50 Years of John Waters: How Much Can You Take?”
October 16, 2014
October 16, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc speaks with New York Times op-ed columnist Charles Blow about his compelling new memoir about growing up in segregated Louisiana, Fire Shut Up in My Bones.
October 15, 2014
October 15, 2014 - Segment 3 - Marc and educator Koli Tengella talk to author, filmmaker and Coppin State University professor D. Watkins about his recent writings, the Baltimore media landscape, different representations of Baltimore in writing and film, and the things that hold young people in Baltimore back from reaching their potential.
October 15, 2014
October 15, 2014 - Segment 2 - I interview 1980s teen idol Molly Ringwald about her upcoming cabaret-style jazz performance at the Gordon Center for Performing Arts.
October 15, 2014
October 15, 2014 - Segment 1 - Listen in to our show commemorating Steve Biko, who was murdered in 1977 while in custody of the South African police. Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in the 1960s and 70s and founder of the Black Consciousness Movement. We reflect upon his life, his legacy, Black Consciousness, and South Africa today.
October 14, 2014
October 14, 2014 - Segment 2 - We have a roundtable with small farmers, including: Denzel Mitchell, Founder and Farm Manager, Five Seeds Family Farm and Apiary; Cheryl Carmona, Co-founder of Boone Street Farm in East Baltimore; Ted Wycall third generation farmer at Greenbranch Farm in Salisbury, MD; and Carole Morrison of Bird's Eye View Farm in Pocomoke City.
October 14, 2014
October 14, 2014 - Segment 1 - We have a conversation with former Black Panther Marshall "Eddie" Conway, who was released from prison earlier this year after being incarcerated for 44 years. We talk about his time in prison, his work with young men inside and outside prison, and Friend of a Friend, a mentoring project he started with American Friends Service Committee.
October 13, 2014
October 13, 2014 - Segment 3 - We listen back to a conversation on art, design and social change with artists in our community.
October 13, 2014
October 13, 2014 - Segment 2 - It's WEAA's Fall Membership Drive! We listen back to some of our best arts programming from 2014. First, it's our visit to the American Visionary Arts Museum's last exhibit, “Human, Soul & Machine: The Coming Singularity,” with Rebecca Hoffberger, Founder and Director of AVAM.
October 13, 2014
October 13, 2014 - Segment 1 - It's WEAA's Fall Membership Drive! Call us this week during the show between 10:00 AM and noon eastern time at 410-319-8888 to make a pledge. We meet National Book Critics Award Finalist Reyna Grande. Her memoir, The Distance Between Us, is this year’s One Maryland One Book selection.
October 13, 2014
October 10, 2014 - Segment 5 - We listen back to a conversation with Haneen Alshujairy, who fled her home in Iraq with her family in 2003, and Justin Sirois, a writer living in Baltimore. Alshujairy and Sirois are co-founders of the Understanding Campaign, which seeks to teach everyone in the world one word of Arabic: Fhm (fuh-hem'), which literally means "understanding." Their hope is that by learning one simple word, people can begin to bridge the gulf between Arab and Western cultures.
October 13, 2014
October 10, 2014 - Segment 4 - We rebroadcast of our show on Afrofuturism, with world-renowned Gospel and Blues singer Lea Gilmore! Lea and Marc talk with: Baltimore-based producer, DJ, and singer Blaqstarr; poet, MC, singer and producer Camae Defstar, aka Moor Mother Goddess; and author, filmmaker, dancer, and futurist Ytasha L. Womack. Womack's latest book, Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi and Fantasy explores black sci fi culture, black comix, and the legacy of Afrofuturism.