June 2013

June 12, 2013
drug war
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Fighting Against The Drug War

June 12, 2013 - Segment 2 - We hear from Retired Major Neill Franklin and Don Rojas. They join us to discuss next Monday's "Day of Direct Action at the White House to Call on President Obama to End the War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration and Invest in America's 'Dark Ghettos,'" which is organized by the Institute of the Black World.
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June 12, 2013
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Just Words – Gloria Knight On Unionizing Child Care Providers

June 12, 2013 - Segment 5 - In one of our Peabody Award-winning Just Words segments, we meet Gloria Knight, a state-contracted daycare provider who is unable to afford health insurance.Gloria discusses the benefits she thinks would stem from unionizing child care providers in Maryland.
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June 11, 2013
Garlic scapes
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Sound Bites: Farmer’s Roundtable; Brickyard Educational Farm Update; Recipe: Garlic Scapes; The Gaza Kitchen

June 11, 2013 - Hour 2 - On this live episode of Sound Bites, we talk to Charles Wright and Ted Wycall about issues impacting farmers, get an update on Brickyard Educational Farm in Montgomery County, hear a recipe for garlic scapes, and hear more about a new cookbook, The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey.
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June 11, 2013
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GOAL Diggers: The Sankofa Project

June 10, 2013-Segment 5-We had a conversation with Meshelle The Indie Mom of Comedy, founder of GOAL Diggers The Sankofa Project, a program focused on connecting inner-city teen girls of African decent to education by introducing them to the study of their ancestry and ethnic identity.
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June 8, 2013
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The Raisin Cycle: CenterStage Presents Perspectives On Hansberry

June 7, 2013 - Segment 4 - We look at two plays based on Lorraine Hansberry's classic Raisin in the Sun. Baltimore's CenterStage is now presenting "The Raisin Cycle," featuring performances of Clybourne Park and Beneatha's Place.
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June 8, 2013
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Inside The Turkish Protests

June 7, 2013 - Segment 2 - We return to Turkey to hear from a voice inside that turbulent nation. Azim Turan, Turkish citizen who lives in Istanbul with a background in international politics, shares a first-hand perspective on the public unrest there.
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June 8, 2013
Harbor Point development in Baltimore
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Local News Roundup: Grand Prix, Harbor Point, Baltimore Police, and Schools

June 7, 2013 - Segment 1 - It's time for our weekly news roundup, where we discuss the state of the Grand Prix in Baltimore, the Harbor Point development, the Baltimore police review board, and Baltimore schools.
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June 6, 2013
Eric Conway, Morgan State University Choir - Carmina Burana
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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s “Carmina Burana”

June 6, 2013 - Segment 3 - We close out the show with a look ahead at this weekend's performances of the masterpiece "Carmina Burana" by the Morgan State University's Choir and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Eric Conway, Director of the Morgan State University Choir, will join us to talk about what promises to be an amazing event, along with two students: Leah Hawkins and Colin Lett.
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June 6, 2013
The War on Marijuana in Black and White
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ACLU: Billions of Dollars Wasted on Racially Biased Marijuana Arrests

June 6, 2013 - Segment 2 - We discuss the ACLU study released this week that reveals racial disparities in marijuana possession arrests, and lists Maryland as fourth in the nation for such arrests. We will examine implications of the study as well as America's drug policy.
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June 6, 2013
View from Black America
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The View From Black America

June 6, 2013 - Segment 1 - We begin our show with a recent survey of more than 1,000 African Americans - an overwhelming majority of whom indicated that they were satisfied with their lives. The survey, conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard School of Public Health, serves as the basis for the new NPR series, "The View from Black America."
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June 4, 2013
Jamal Joseph
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Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion & Reinvention

June 5, 2013 - Hour 1 - We bring you an interview from this spring's CityLit Festival with Jamal Joseph, activist, urban guerrilla, FBI's most wanted fugitive, poet, and filmmaker, who discusses his memoir, Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion & Reinvention.
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June 4, 2013
monsanto-wheat
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Sound Bites: Does Report On Arsenic & Chicken Matter?; Monsanto Watch; And Langston Hughes’ “Freedom’s Plow”

June 4, 2013 - Segment 4 - We kick-off another live episode of Sound Bites with a debate over the Johns Hopkins University study on arsenicals in chicken, and we look at Monsanto in the news with Tom Laskawy and Tom Philpott. Then, Blain Snipstal reads a Langston Hughes poem that highlights the importance of African Americans in agriculture and farming.
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June 4, 2013
Biracial Family In Cheerios Ad
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Biracial Family In Cheerios Ad Causes Online Storm

June 4, 2013 - Segment 3 - Meagan Hatcher-Mays, recent graduate of Washington University Law School in St. Louis and freelance contributor for Jezebel, offers a commentary on the Cheerios commercial that polarized the online community because of its depiction of a multiracial family.
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June 4, 2013
Protest in Istanbul
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Massive Protests In Turkey Over Prime Minister Erdogan

June 4, 2013 - Segment 2 - This week in Turkey, a small sit-in in the heart of Istanbul over government plans to demolish a park for a shopping complex turned into a massive protest against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, elected ten years ago.
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June 4, 2013
PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 22: Writer Jeremy Scahill poses for a portrait during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival at the WireImage Portrait Studio at Village At The Lift on January 22, 2013 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Jeff Vespa/WireImage)
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Jeremy Scahill’s Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield

June 4, 2013 - Segment 1 - We talk with investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute, about his new book on the U.S. drone wars, Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield.
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