March 2016

March 30, 2016

City Paper This Week: Heroes And Villains Issue

March 30, 2016 - Segment 4 - Our guest host, Steiner Show producer Stefanie Mavronis, hosts our regular feature City Paper This Week. With: Brandon Weigel, Blogs Editor and Calendar Editor for City Paper; and JM Giordano, Photo Editor for City Paper.
March 30, 2016

Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines

March 30, 2016 - Segment 3 - We take a peek into an important new anthology, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. Joining us in-studio will be the book's editors: Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens and Mai'a Williams.
March 30, 2016

Monthly Segment on Health and Wellness: Men’s Health

March 30, 2016 - Segment 2 - We host our monthly segment on Health & Wellness with fitness trainer and activist Chauncey Whitehead and Rhonda Silva, Division Administrator of the Baltimore City Cancer Program at the University of Maryland's Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center. The topic this month will be African American Men's Health.
March 30, 2016

Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity

March 29, 2016 - Segment 3 - We host a discussion with filmmaker and racial equity educator Dr. Shakti Butler about her film Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity. Butler is President of World Trust, an organization that collaborates with groups and communities, using film and conversation to address subjects such as race and privilege.
March 30, 2016

Local News Roundtable: Port Covington & The Mayoral Election

March 28, 2016 - Segment 3 - We host a Local News Roundtable which addresses issues that include the controversial Port Covington development plan and the Baltimore mayoral election. With: Luke Broadwater, A. Adar Ayira, Catalina Byrd.
March 30, 2016

The War on Drugs: Conversation & Analysis with Neill Franklin

March 28, 2016 - Segment 2 - We check in with the current state of the War on Drugs, with: Neill Franklin, former Baltimore and Maryland State Police officer and Executive Director of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition).
March 30, 2016

Legalize It All: How To Win The War On Drugs

March 28, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host a conversation with with author Dan Baum, about his current front page article in Harper's magazine, Legalize It All: How to win the war on drugs, which discusses how the Nixon administration's "War on Drugs" was started to attack Black people and the anti-war left.
March 25, 2016

The Concern Over Reparations & Bernie Sanders

March 25, 2016 - Segment 4 - We host a rebroadcast of our show from January when our panel of guests examined Ta-Nehisi Coates' critique of Bernie Sanders' statements about reparations. With: A. Adar Ayira, Dr. Lester Spence, and Bill Fletcher, Jr.
March 25, 2016

Abenaki Indian Author Joseph Bruchac: Reflections on Columbus Day

March 25, 2016 - Segment 3 - We host a special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show from 2009, when Abenaki Indian author and storyteller Joseph Bruchac joined us to reflect on Columbus Day, from his perspective as someone with both Abenaki Indian and European heritage. Abenaki has authored over 70 books, and has worked extensively as a musician and educator.
March 25, 2016

Education & Testing: Resistance to the Common Core

March 25, 2016 - Segment 2 - We examine the subject of education and testing, focusing on resistance to the Common Core PARRC tests. With: Jordan Najee Leonard, Business Manager of Baltimore Algebra Project; and Jamal Jones, Co-Director of Baltimore Algebra Project.
March 25, 2016

Tengella’s Take: White Anger Or White Fear

March 25, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host our our weekly feature Tengella's Take with Koli Tengella. Koli is President of Tengella Edutainment, an instructor and creator of the Positive Social Change Performing Arts Program at Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts High School, and he was a 2010 Open Society Institute Fellow.
March 25, 2016

Sound Bites: Impact Of Sewage Pollution In Baltimore’s Harbor | Detroit Black Community Food Security Network | Recipe: Palestinian Easter Kaik With Dates

March 24, 2016 - Hour 2 - On Sound Bites, we get an update on the state of sewage pollution in the Baltimore Harbor. Then, we talk with Malik Yakini, Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, and get a Palestinian Easter recipe from Laila El-Haddad.
March 18, 2016

Sound Bites: Sandtown–Building a Model for Food and Jobs

March 17, 2016 - Segment 3 - In a special archive edition of Sound Bites, we hear a rebroadcast of a Good Food Gathering town hall meeting called Sandtown: Building a Model for Food and Jobs.
March 15, 2016

All Baltimore Voices: Stories About and Beyond the Unrest

March 14, 2016 - Segment 3 - We hear about a special project coming in April to the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, recognizing the one-year anniversary of the Baltimore Uprising: All Baltimore Voices: Stories About and Beyond the Unrest. With: Roni L. Jolley, Ed.D., Director of Education at the Lewis Museum; and poet Kondwani Fidel.
March 15, 2016

Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion & Reinvention

March 11, 2016 - Segment 4 - In an archive edition of the Steiner Show, we hear an interview with Jamal Joseph, activist, urban guerrilla, FBI’s most wanted fugitive, poet, and filmmaker, who joined us to discuss his memoir, Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion & Reinvention.
March 14, 2016

Sound Bites: Institutional Food Procurement | SCOTUS and Chesapeake Bay | A Vegan Poem

March 10, 2016 - Segment 3 - On our latest segment of Sound Bites, we discuss institutional food procurement, a Supreme Court ruling about the Chesapeake Bay, and hear a poem about veganism.
March 14, 2016

Officer William Porter Legal Case Update

March 10, 2016 - Segment 2 - We discuss the legal case around the death of Freddie Gray, and the news that Baltimore police Officer William G. Porter can be compelled to testify against the other five officers who are his co-defendants.
March 11, 2016

Over-Policed, Yet Underserved: West Baltimore Residents Share Stories Of Police Misconduct

March 10, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with a look at a report released by No Boundaries Coalition, a Central West Baltimore community organization, on alleged police misconduct in West Baltimore. The report is titled "Over-Policed, Yet Underserved," and details stories of police misconduct witnessed and experienced by West Baltimore residents.