February 26, 2015
February 26, 2015 - Segment 4 - We turn to the issue of pain management and discuss treatment options and barriers to treatment.
February 26, 2015
February 26, 2015 - Segment 3 - We discuss a controversial bill that would lift restrictions on when police officers could carry their weapons, allowing them to carry them inside schools.
February 26, 2015
February 26, 2015 - Segment 2 - We have an update on the Maryland General Assembly, which is currently in session.
February 26, 2015
February 26, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of Johnny Cash and the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993.
February 26, 2015
February 25, 2015 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with our regular feature City Paper This Week, withSenior Editor Baynard Woods. This week's issue features a cover story on Dan Deacon.
February 26, 2015
February 25, 2015 - Segment 4 - We take a look at a number of opportunities to engage in civic involvement here in Maryland, with Dayvon Love, Director of Research and Public Policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle and Caryn Aslan, Policy Associate at the Job Opportunities Task Force.
February 26, 2015
February 25, 2015 - Segment 3 - We talk about Neighborhood Revitalization and Gentrification in Baltimore, and how we can create the city we want with Jeff Singer, Ben Stone, Mia Loving, Lena Leone and John Duda.
February 26, 2015
February 25, 2015 - Segment 2 - We preview of the newest lecture in Open Society Institute-Baltimore's Talking About Race series, taking place Thursday night. I will talk with Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of Equal Justice Initiative, a law practice dedicated to defending some of America's most rejected and marginalized people, about his new book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.
February 26, 2015
February 25, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Hiram Revels became the first Black man to sit in the United States Senate, the day playwright Tennessee Williams passed away, and the birthday of Bo Diddley.
February 25, 2015
February 24, 2015 - Segment 3 - In our latest edition of Sound Bites, we host a panel of young farmers in Baltimore City, and hear about the best matzoh ball soup in Baltimore.
February 25, 2015
February 24, 2015 - Segment 2 - To honor science fiction writer Octavia Butler, who died on February 24, 2006, we examine diversity in the realm of science fiction.
February 25, 2015
February 24, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the Battle of Los Angeles in 1942, the day the Supreme Court made a decision in the Marbury v. Madison case, and the day Clara Fraser, co-founder of Radical Women, died.
February 25, 2015
February 23, 2015 - Segment 3 - We commemorate the life and legacy of Malcolm X, who was assassinated on February 21, 1965.
February 25, 2015
February 23, 2015 - Segment 2 - We take a look at standardized testing in Maryland's schools.
February 25, 2015
February 23, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the start of the battle of the Alamo and Woody Guthrie writing "This Land is Your Land."
February 24, 2015
February 20, 2015 - Segment 4 - We speak with Palestinian filmmaker Fida Qishta about her compelling new film Where Should the Birds Fly.
February 24, 2015
February 20, 2015 - Segment 3 - Cricket Arrison joins us to talk about her fascinating and groundbreaking one-woman and one-audience-member-at-a-time play, "Make Yourself at Home."
February 24, 2015
February 20, 2015 - Segment 2 - We take a look at Black History Month and how to teach children Black history outside the context of schools.
February 24, 2015
February 20, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of Kurt Cobain and the death of Frederick Douglass.
February 19, 2015
February 19, 2015 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with a preview of a talk to be held tonight at Red Emma's Bookstore and Café, Hope and Crisis in Greece: An Update on the Current Situation. With Kostis Papadantonakis.
February 19, 2015
February 19, 2015 - Segment 4 - Open your Economics text as we talk about Solidarity Economics, a pursuit of alternative ways of engaging in the economy that are based on solidarity and work. With: Parag Khandhar and Dorcas Gilmore.
February 19, 2015
February 19, 2015 - Segment 3 - We look at a piece of Baltimore's history as a segregated city as we examine the Roland Park neighborhood. Our guest is Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, who wrote an article in the Fall 2014 issue of Johns Hopkins Magazine, Roland Park: one of America's first garden suburbs, and built for whites only.
February 19, 2015
February 19, 2015 - Segment 2 - We get a special sneak preview at the production currently playing at the Arena Players in Baltimore, Amiri Baraka's Slaveship: A Tribute to Amiri Baraka.With director Rosiland W. Cauthen and actors Nathan Couser, Malcolm Anomanchi, and Tracie Jiggetts.
February 19, 2015
February 19, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the phonograph was patented by Thomas Alva Edison, one of the bloodiest days in the Bread and Roses Strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and the day President Gerald Ford finally rescinded Executive Order 9066, which ended the internment of Japanese-Americans.
February 19, 2015
February 18, 2015 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with an encore broadcast of our show on the thought-provoking, inspirational and entertaining production currently playing at Baltimore's Center Stage: One Night in Miami, which has an extended run through February 22.
February 18, 2015
February 18, 2015 - Segment 3 - I talk with Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, President of University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), about the talk he's giving at Goucher College next week, his forthcoming book Hold Fast to Dreams, and his thoughts on education.
February 18, 2015
February 18, 2015 - Segment 2 - We celebrate the birthday of Audre Lorde, who described herself as a "Black lesbian mother warrior poet."
February 18, 2015
February 18, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of Dr. Dre and the founding of Morehouse College.
February 18, 2015
February 17, 2015 - Segment 4 - On our series about our food and our world - Sound Bites - we bring you a tape of a panel discussion from last Thursday at Red Emma's Bookstore and Café, which followed a screening of Food Chains, a documentary about the work of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to achieve fair treatment for farmworkers.
February 18, 2015
February 17, 2015 - Segment 3 - Listen in to a special 2012 archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show, on prescription medications and children. I talk with Dr. Alan Sroufe, who at one time believed that Ritalin was as necessary for children. However, his position has changed, and he believes that these drugs are dangerously over-prescribed.
February 18, 2015
February 17, 2015 - Segment 2 - Marc Steiner Show Producer Stefanie Mavronis talks to UMBC staff and students about UMBC Critical Social Justice Week, a week-long series of events focused on learning social justice, teaching social justice and "Creating Brave Spaces," this year's theme.
February 18, 2015
February 17, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc discusses what happened today in history, including the birthday of Black Panther founder Huey Newton, the day Bedonkohe Apache leader Geronimo passed away, and the day the United States House of Representatives passed the Missouri Compromise.
February 18, 2015
February 16, 2015 - Segment 4 - Willie Flowers, Executive Director of the Park Heights Community Health Alliance, joins us to talk about his organization's new "Try Love" campaign.
February 18, 2015
February 16, 2015 - Segment 3 - We host a news roundtable, discussing, among other things, the passing of Frank Conaway Sr.
February 18, 2015
February 16, 2015 - Segment 2 - The 2015 Maryland General Assembly has been in session for over a month, and one of our state's new legislators, Delegate Cory McCray (D-District 45, Baltimore City), offers an update on the Session.
February 18, 2015
February 16, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of James Baskett, the first African American man to receive an Oscar and the death of actress Anita Bush.
February 13, 2015
February 13, 2015 - Segment 4 - Dr. Karsonya "Kaye" Wise Whitehead joins us to talk about her op-ed series in the Baltimore Sun this month.
February 13, 2015
February 13, 2015 - Segment 3 - We remember Maryland Poet Laureate Lucille Clifton by listening to her read some of her best poems, and we listen back to a segment from the archives, where we talked to her friends and colleagues shortly after her passing.
February 13, 2015
February 13, 2015 - Segment 2 - We preview The Griot's Eye Youth Film and Culture Festival that's taking place this weekend at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture.
February 13, 2015
February 13, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1960 sit-in of Black college students at lunch counters in Nashville.
February 13, 2015
February 12, 2015 - Segment 4 - We turn our attention to heroin use in Maryland, as well as treatment programs and policy issues facing the Maryland legislature this session.
February 13, 2015
February 12, 2015 - Segment 3 - We examine the role of social justice activism in the church, with the Rev. Kevin Slayton and the Rev. Dr. Heber Brown.
February 13, 2015
February 12, 2015 - Segment 2 - In light of Tuesday's fatal shootings of three young Muslims near the University of North Carolina, we examine Islamophobia in America.
February 13, 2015
February 12, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, and the establishment of the NAACP.
February 12, 2015
February 11, 2015 - Segment 4 - We close the show with our weekly feature City Paper This Week with Senior Editor Baynard Woods. This week's issue looks at sex.
February 12, 2015
February 11, 2015 - Segment 3 - It's another one of our regular features, "If I Were Mayor of Baltimore," as we discuss the Arts, development, and gentrification in our city with Paul Rucker, David Mitchell, Michelle Gomez and Cara Ober.
February 12, 2015
February 11, 2015 - Segment 2 - We preview of a visual treat, as we examine the Baltimore African American experience through the lens of three generations of the Phillips family, photographers who have captured Baltimore's African American community and culture since 1946 when Irving Henry Phillips began working as a photographer for the Baltimore Afro-American.
February 12, 2015
February 11, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of first female AME preacher Jarena Lee, the day Black students in Cambridge, MD, among other states, staged a boycott to protest conditions in segregated schools, and the day thousands of Native Americans in 1978 undertook the Long Walk.
February 11, 2015
February 10, 2015 - Segment 3 - In our latest edition of Sound Bites, we listen in to a panel discussion Marc moderated on Baltimore's food-system planning, policy and partnership efforts and how people are shaping and implementing visions for a sustainable local food system.
February 11, 2015
February 10, 2015 - Segment 2 - In light of the news that Tavon White - the Black Guerrilla Family member who ran a drug ring in prison and impregnated four guards - would receive a lightened sentence because he gave key testimony against other inmates and guards, we discuss prison reform and abolition.