November 30, 2014
November 24, 2014 - Segment 4 - We spend the second hour in a State News Roundup, including a discussion around Governor-Elect Hogan's transition and upcoming administration.
November 30, 2014
November 24, 2014 - Segment 3 - We host a National News Roundup, with topics to include President Obama's speech last week and executive actions on immigration policy, and the pending Grand Jury verdict in Ferguson, Missouri.
November 30, 2014
November 24, 2014 - Segment 2 - Award-winning poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller joins us to honor and remember former D.C. Mayor and civil rights icon Marion Barry, who died this weekend.
November 30, 2014
November 24, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day lawyer and civil rights activist Percy Ellis Sutton was born, the day Charles Darwin published 'On The Origin of Species,' and the day Mother's Day founder Anna Jarvis passed away.
November 29, 2014
November 21, 2014 - Two Hour Special - Listen to a special broadcast of excerpts from a town hall meeting I moderated Wednesday night at the Real News Network, on the role of the community in the Police Department. The panel and the audience - including representatives from the Baltimore Police Department, public officials, activists and community members - debated and discussed the issues and possible solutions.
November 29, 2014
November 21, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day North Carolina became a state, the day Shaw University was founded, becoming the first university for African Americans in the South, and the day poet and artist Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs died.
November 24, 2014
November 20, 2014 - Segment 4 - We're joined by legendary poet Nikki Giovanni for a ranging conversation.
November 24, 2014
November 20, 2014 - Segment 3 - We're joined by Garrison Keillor, author and host of a Prairie Home Companion.
November 24, 2014
November 20, 2014 - Segment 2 - We take a tour through the Baltimore Museum of Art's recently reopened American Wing with David Park Curry, Senior Curator and Department Head of Decorative Arts and American Painting and Sculpture for the Museum.
November 24, 2014
November 20, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the start of the Nuremberg trials in Germany, Native American activists seizing control of Alcatraz Island, and the execution Zumbi, the last of the leaders of fugitive African settlement, Quilombos dos Palmares.
November 21, 2014
November 19, 2014 - Segment 6 - We close out the show with our weekly feature, City Paper This Week, with Senior Editor Baynard Woods. This week is City Paper's holiday gift edition!
November 21, 2014
November 19, 2014 - Segment 5 - We bring you a special musical treat, when we're joined by singer, songwriter and visual artist SONiA of disappear fear, who will be performing in Maryland.
November 21, 2014
November 19, 2014 - Segment 4 - Thursday, November 20, is Transgender Day of Remembrance, which honors those whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. We commemorate this day and honor transgender pioneer Leslie Feinberg, who died earlier this week. Feinberg authored Stone Butch Blues in 1993.
November 21, 2014
November 19, 2014 - Segment 3 - We host a Baltimore News Roundtable discussion on the plastic bag ban, body cameras, and school closings with Dr. John Bullock, Adam Jackson, and Catalina Byrd.
November 21, 2014
November 19, 2014 - Segment 2 - We get an update on the current political climate in Ferguson, Missouri, with Missouri State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal, St. Louis County-District 14, who has been out at the protests since they began.
November 21, 2014
November 19, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of abolitionist Sojourner Truth, the day labor leader and songwriter Joe Hill was executed, and the day the United States' Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles.
November 20, 2014
November 18, 2014 - Segment 4 - This week on Sound Bites, we discuss Governor Martin O'Malley's move forward last week with the Phosphorus Management Tool and the Brassica Festival, happening this weekend in Park Heights.
November 20, 2014
November 18, 2014 - Segment 3 - We turn our attention to the recent rape allegations against Bill Cosby. We're joined by Andrea Plaid, Dr. Karsonya "Kaye" Whitehead, and Dr. Jennifer Williams.
November 19, 2014
November 18, 2014 - Segment 2 - Minister Carlos Muhammad, Nation of Islam historian-archivist, Student Minister for Muhammad Mosque Number 6 in Baltimore, and Baltimore representative for The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan joins us to talk about Farrakhan's visit to Morgan State University on Saturday, November 22nd as the keynote speaker for the BUSI (Black United Summit International) Conference.
November 18, 2014
November 18, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including President Kennedy sending 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam, the 1978 Peoples Temple mass murder/suicide, andRonald Reagan signing a bill into law allowing for a Cabinet-level drug czar and the death penalty for drug traffickers.
November 17, 2014
November 17, 2014 - Segment 3 - We look at national and international headlines, including President Obama's comments on immigration and the Islamic State with a roundtable of political analysts.
November 17, 2014
November 17, 2014 - Segment 2 - The country is braced for the Grand Jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri, regarding whether to indict a police officer who shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown on August 9. We examine the possible outcomes in this case and their implications.
November 17, 2014
November 17, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Theodora Ann “Tidye” Pickett, the first African American woman to compete for the United States in the Olympic Games, died, the day President Richard Nixon told 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook", and the birthday of storyteller and cook Nancy Green, who became Aunt Jemima.
November 17, 2014
November 14, 2014 - Segment 4 - We speak to Dr. Francois Furstenberg about his new book 'When the United States Spoke French'. The book follows a group of French émigrés who fled the French Revolution and settled in Philadelphia, where they integrated into some of the most exalted political and financial networks of the young nation.
November 17, 2014
November 14, 2014 - Segment 3 - We discuss the historic climate change agreement announced today between President Obama and China's President Xi Jinping, in which both countries vowed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next two decades.
November 17, 2014
November 14, 2014 - Segment 2 - We discuss homelessness in Baltimore with James Crawford Jr. and Damien Haussling of the Homeless Speakers' Bureau. The Homeless Speakers' bureau is hosting a night of monologues next Wednesday night.
November 17, 2014
November 14, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day journalist Nellie Bly began her attempt to travel around he world in less than 80 days, the day the NAACP led protests against the showing of the racist film Birth of a Nation, and the day educator and founder of the Tuskegee Institute, Booker T. Washington, died.
November 17, 2014
November 13, 2014 - Segment 2 - On today's Baltimore news roundup, we talk about city school closings, education funding, body cameras, and the plastic bag ban with Ralph Moore, Anthony McCarthy, Kim Truehart and Tyrone Keys.
November 17, 2014
November 13, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the end of the Montgomery Bus Boycott after the Supreme Court decision calling racial segregation on public buses unconstitutional, the birthday of feminist activist and writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and the day anti-war protesters staged a symbolic March Against Death in Washington, D.C.
November 17, 2014
November 12, 2014 - Segment 5 City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods joins us to talk about what's in this week's issue of the City Paper.
November 17, 2014
November 12, 2014 - Segment 4 - We talk to Delegate Curt Anderson, who represents the 43rd District in Baltimore City, about the state of education in the city and an upcoming public hearing about it.
November 14, 2014
November 12, 2014 - Segment 3 - We discuss a controversial speech by the president of Lincoln University. Speaking to students, he said women should not report rape in order to keep Black men out of prison.
November 14, 2014
November 12, 2014 - Segment 2 - Vince Leggett, historian, founder of Blacks of the Chesapeake, and author of “The Chesapeake Bay Through Ebony Eyes” joins us to talk about African Americans during the War of 1812. Vince Leggett will speak this weekend at the Creative Alliance.
November 14, 2014
November 12, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Seymour Hersh breaking the My Lai story, the birth of activist and feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the suspension of South Africa from the UN General Assembly because of its policy of apartheid.
November 14, 2014
November 11, 2014 - Segment 3 - On our Veterans Day edition of Sound Bites we begin the hour by talking to veterans who have embraced farming after returning home from war. Then, we close out Sound Bites by looking at last week's election results and the potential effect on Maryland's environmental and agricultural policy.
November 14, 2014
November 11, 2014 - Segment 2 - We again ask the question, "What would you do if you were Mayor of Baltimore?" Joining us to offer their own answers are three members of the new class of Open Society Institute-Baltimore Fellows.
November 14, 2014
November 11, 2014 - Segment 1 - Tuesday is Veterans Day, and we honor all the men and women who have served or are currently serving in our country's Armed Forces, and more.
November 14, 2014
November 10, 2014 - Segment 3 - We host a roundtable on the local and state election results with Nicolee Ambrose, Laslo Boyd, Catalina Byrd, and Rev. Dr. Heber Brown.
November 14, 2014
November 10, 2014 - Segment 2 We host a roundtable on the national election results, with Imara Jones, Brian Griffiths, and John Nichols.
November 14, 2014
November 10, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Kristallnacht, when anti-Jewish pogroms took place across Germany, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the passing of UN Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism and racism.
November 10, 2014
November 7, 2014 - Segment 5 - I talk with Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian whose trilogy America in the King Years chronicles the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement.
November 10, 2014
November 7, 2014 - Segment 4 - I talk with Mark Bowden, author of many books including Black Hawk Down, about his 2006 work Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam.
November 10, 2014
November 7, 2014 - Segment 3 - We talk with two journalists, one Palestinian and one Israeli: Noam Sheizaf and Samer Badawi.
November 10, 2014
November 7, 2014 - Segment 2 - We talk with individuals from the Freedom Theatre in the Jenin Refugee Camp in the Occupied West Bank. The goal of the theatre is to empower the community and to explore the potential of arts as an important catalyst for social change.
November 10, 2014
November 7, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the day Douglas Wilder becomes the first African American to be elected as governor of a U.S. state, and the day in 1990 when the National Football League responded to the state of Arizona’s refusal to observe a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday by rescinding their plan to hold the 1993 Super Bowl in Phoenix.
November 10, 2014
November 6, 2014 - Segment 4 - We hear our monthly feature on health and fitness, with fitness activist and trainer Chauncey Whitehead, professional trainer and body builder Ernestine Shepherd, and registered dietician Angela Ginn-Meadow. This month, we discuss diabetes.
November 10, 2014
November 6, 2014 - Segment 3 - We host another Philosophers' Roundtable and ask the question: Do Things Happen for a Reason?
November 10, 2014
November 6, 2014 - Segment 2 - We talk with Palestinian journalist, foreign policy analyst and author Rula Jebreal about her recent op-ed piece in the New York Times, "Minority Life in Israel."
November 10, 2014
November 6, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the election of Jefferson Davis to the presidency of the Confederacy, Art Modell's 1995 announcement that he planned to move the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore,and the birth of author Michael Cunningham.
November 10, 2014
November 5, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with our weekly feature, City Paper This Week, with Senior Editor Baynard Woods.