May 29, 2015
May 26, 2015 - Segment 3 - We turn to issues of women in our culture, including discussions on feminism, race, Mad Max, the new Bessie Smith biopic Bessie, and Baltimore's Baker artist awards.
May 29, 2015
May 26, 2015 - Segment 2 - We discuss the 26 shootings in Baltimore over the weekend; Governor Hogan's veto of a bill that would have given voting rights to former felons; summer is coming and where will Baltimore's children go; and the departure of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's top criminal justice official last week.
May 29, 2015
May 26, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, the Supreme Court handed down its Dred Scott decision, White House seamstress Elizabeth Keckley passed away, and vaudeville singer and dancer Mamie Robinson Smith was born.
May 28, 2015
May 25, 2015 - Segment 2 - Take a journey through Vietnam with a group of eight people who went there to produce the radio documentary series Shared Weight.
May 28, 2015
May 25, 2015 - Segment 1 - We listen to another episode of our documentary series about the Vietnam War, Shared Weight. We hear Artists Born of War, where artists and writers from all sides of the Vietnam War reveal how that conflict influenced – and maybe even birthed – their work.
May 27, 2015
May 22, 2015 - Segment 5 - You hear from some of Baltimore's talented new young journalistic voices, students at UMBC. We hear about Station North, a neighborhood that has been undergoing a great deal of transition,
May 27, 2015
May 22, 2015 - Segment 4 - You hear from some of Baltimore's talented new young journalistic voices, students at UMBC, who worked with Marc on a project called Baltimore Traces: Communities in Transition, which brought students into Baltimore City to study neighborhoods, where they conducted interviews with local residents and workers.
May 27, 2015
May 22, 2015 - Segment 3 - We present a special treat, a preview of Center Stage's brilliant production Marley! We talk to playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah and three of the actors in this performance.
May 27, 2015
May 22, 2015 - Segment 2 - We begin the show with our weekly feature, Tengella's Take, when actor, educator, and activist Koli Tengella offers his thoughts on our world today. Today's installment is "I'm African Yal & Thats A Fact Yal."
May 27, 2015
May 22, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Langston Hughes passed away, the Caribbean island of Martinique abolished slavery, and Katherine Mary Dunham, the "Queen Mother of Black Dance," passed away.
May 26, 2015
May 21, 2015 - Segment 4 - In the latest installment of our series about our food and our world, Sound Bites, we look at the connection between food insecurity in Baltimore and what has come to be known as the Baltimore Uprising, the demonstrations and violence that occurred after the death of Freddie Gray.
May 26, 2015
May 21, 2015 - Segment 3 - In light of the fact that last week Maryland state officials approved $30 million for a new youth jail facility, we examine the history of the debate over a youth jail in Baltimore.
May 26, 2015
May 21, 2015 - Segment 2 - D Watkins joins us to talk about Claude McKay, Harlem Renaissance poet and writer who died on May 22, 1938.
May 26, 2015
May 21, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of the Notorious B.I.G and the abolition of slavery in Martinique.
May 26, 2015
May 20, 2015 - Segment 4 - Baynard Woods, Editor at Large for the City Paper, joins us to discuss this week's issue of the City Paper.
May 26, 2015
May 20, 2015 - Segment 3 - We talk with community activists about their response to the recent upsurge of violence and murders in Baltimore.
May 22, 2015
May 20, 2015 - Segment 2 - We check in with the important work of the Community Conferencing Center, one of the longest-standing restorative justice programs in the country, internationally recognized for its work of providing meaningful alternatives to arrest and incarceration for youth of color.
May 22, 2015
May 20, 2015 - Segment 1 - On this day in history, we remember the signing of the Homestead Act and the announcement of "Josephine Baker Day" by the NAACP.
May 21, 2015
May 19, 2015 - Segment 4 - We host an important discussion about an international agreement currently being hotly debated between Congress and the President - one that will affect all of us, but about which most of us know very little - the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership).
May 21, 2015
May 19, 2015 - Segment 3 - We examine the issue of water shutoffs here in Baltimore, with the Baltimore Department of Public Works, Baltimore activists and activists in Detroit who have dealt with water shutoffs in their city.
May 21, 2015
May 19, 2015 - Segment 2 - Our panel of guests joins in an International News Roundtable, as we discuss the situation in Yemen, ISIS, Arctic drilling, and more. With: James Phillips, Dr. Faheem Younus and Stephen Miles.
May 21, 2015
May 19, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh celebrate birthdays, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail was published, and thinker, philosopher and activist C.L.R. James passed away.
May 20, 2015
May 18, 2015 - Segment 4 - We close out our show with a very special tribute to King of the Blues B.B. King, who passed away on Thursday. With James "Big Jim" Staton.
May 20, 2015
May 18, 2015 - Segment 3 - Our panel turns to national headlines as we look at the race for the Presidency, the battle over TPP in Congress and other topics, with Dr. Kimberly Moffitt, Catalina Byrd and Edward Wyckoff Williams.
May 20, 2015
May 18, 2015 - Segment 2 - On our local news roundtable, we discuss public safety, policing in Baltimore, and state funding approved for the new youth jail.
May 20, 2015
May 18, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, "The First Lady of the Struggle" Mary McLeod Bethune passed away, the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson decisions were handed down by the Supreme Court, and the Bath School Massacre took place in Michigan.
May 20, 2015
May 15, 2015 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with a special Marc Steiner Show archive edition from earlier this year; an investigative report by Morgan State University students on curfew law that went into effect in Baltimore last August.
May 20, 2015
May 15, 2015 - Segment 4 - We turn to the local theatre scene for Marc's interview with actress Lois Markle, who is currently in Center Stage's productions of Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles and After the Revolution.
May 19, 2015
May 15, 2015 - Segment 3 - We are joined by poet and playwright Elizabeth Alexander about her exquisitely written and deeply moving memoir The Light of the World.
May 19, 2015
May 15, 2015 - Segment 2 - We introduce a new segment, Tengella's Take, featuring commentary from Koli Tengella.
May 19, 2015
May 15, 2015 - Segment 1 - We look back at some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the killing of a protestor in Berkeley.
May 19, 2015
May 14, 2015 - Segment 4 - On today's episode of Sound Bites, we're joined by Maryland Secretary of Agriculture Joseph Bartenfelder, who speaks about a recent blog post and his tenure to date. Then we hear a response from two Maryland environmentalists:
May 18, 2015
May 14, 2015 - Segment 3 - We look at the role of the Greater Baltimore Urban League (GBUL) in the wake of the events of the past few weeks. GBUL staff members Charles Jackson, Stephanie Maddin, and Eric White join the discussion.
May 18, 2015
May 14, 2015 - Segment 2 - Our panel reflects on public infrastructure and politics in light of last night's Amtrak train derailment in Philadelphia.
May 18, 2015
May 14, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, the British colony of Jamestown was established, Israel was declared an independent state, and and the Jackson State University massacre, when two African American students, Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, were gunned down by Mississippi State Police during an anti-war protest.
May 15, 2015
May 13, 2015 - Segment 6 - We close out the show with our regular feature, City Paper This Week, with Managing Editor Baynard Woods. This week's cover story focuses on Marley, a musical currently at Center Stage.
May 15, 2015
May 13, 2015 - Segment 5 - We offer a sneak preview of Saturday night's special screening of Out in the Night at the Baltimore Creative Alliance, part of the 4th Annual Charm City LGBTQA Film Festival. I talk with the film's Director, blair dorosh-walther.
May 15, 2015
May 13, 2015 - Segment 4 - Monks from the Drupung Gomang Monastery in South India have been in Baltimore for the past week, leading discussions and meditations and creating a sand mandala at the Baltimore Yoga Village in Mount Washington.
May 15, 2015
May 13, 2015 - Segment 3 - We move closer to home with a Maryland state politics discussion and debate with: Dr. Roni Ellington and Jackie Wellfonder. We discuss Governor Hogan's response to Baltimore, the legislation he signed this week and the ex-felon voting rights bill sitting on his desk.
May 15, 2015
May 13, 2015 - Segment 2 - We look at the hidden story and complexities around the current situation in Yeman, where a Saudi-led bombing campaign against Yemen's Houthi rebels began in March and was scheduled to cease today.
May 15, 2015
May 13, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Britain's King Victoria issued a "Proclamation of Neutrality" on the Confederacy, enslaved African American Robert Smalls fought against the Confederacy in Charleston, and the Philadelphia police bombed the headquarters of radical Black nationalist movement MOVE.
May 15, 2015
May 12, 2015 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with Congresswoman Donna Edwards about her run for the U.S. Senate and her thoughts on Baltimore.
May 15, 2015
May 12, 2015 - Segment 4 - We discuss the sentencing of CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling with retired NSA employee J. Kirk Wiebe and the Institute for Public Accuracy's Norman Solomon.
May 15, 2015
May 12, 2015 - Segment 3 - We discuss the Orioles and some of the signs held by the team's fans that mocked the Black Lives Matter movement and protests for justice for Freddie Gray with Milton Kent.
May 15, 2015
May 12, 2015 - Segment 2 - We look at the motion filed last week by the attorneys representing the six police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, demanding Baltimore State's Attorney Maryland Mosby recuse herself because of alleged conflicts of interest.
May 15, 2015
May 12, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Samuel "Toothpick Sam" became the first African American to pitch a no-hitter, the birthday of boxer William "Gorilla" Jones, and the day the British took control of Charleston, South Carolina during the Revolutionary War.
May 11, 2015
May 11, 2015 - Segment 3 - We continue our discussion on the Baltimore Uprising, and ask how the momentum and unity of the past few weeks can be continued.
May 11, 2015
May 11, 2015 - Segment 2 - We talk with Todd H. Oppenheim, felony trial attorney in the Office of the Public Defender, about his recent op-ed for the Baltimore Brew titled, "The bias in Baltimore bail hearings: a presumption of guilt."
May 11, 2015
May 11, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the death of Bob Marley, the launch of the Poor People's Campaign, and the foundation of Ghana, the first postcolonial independent nation on the continent of Africa.
May 11, 2015
May 8, 2015 - Segment 3 - Listen to my conversation from last Sunday with long-time activist, former politician, and author Tom Hayden, about his new book Listen Yankee! Why Cuba Matters.