October 11, 2013
October 11, 2013 - Segment 4 - Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake joins us on-air to talk about the recent reports of Baltimore City's property tax collection errors and the call for an audit.
October 11, 2013
October 11, 2013 - Segment 3 - We look at upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decisions with Brentin Mock, a New Orleans-based journalist who serves as lead reporter on Voting Rights Watch and Reporting Fellow for Colorlines.com.
October 11, 2013
October 11, 2013 - Segment 2 - We continue our discussion about the effects of the government shutdown with: Bryce Covert, Editor of the Roosevelt Institute's New Deal 2.0 blog and regular contributor to The Nation; and Lenny McAllister, Republican strategist and former congressional candidate.
October 11, 2013
October 11, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the birth of suffragette Emily Davison and the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica.
October 10, 2013
October 10, 2013 - Segment 4 - We feature Fusion Partnerships, Inc., a local organization whose mission is to work through collaborative action to be a catalyst for justice and peace.
October 10, 2013
October 10, 2013 - Segment 3 - We look at health care enrollment in Maryland since the Affordable Care Act took effect earlier this month, with HealthCare Access Maryland and Healthcare for All.
October 10, 2013
October 10, 2013 - Segment 2 - We begin our show with a discussion of the recent federal court ruling that states that Maryland has violated its constitutional commitment by allowing traditionally White institutions of higher learning to duplicate programs already offered by Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU's).
October 10, 2013
October 10, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the birthdays of jazz legend Thelonious Monk, and singer and civil rights activist Oscar Brown, Jr.
October 9, 2013
October 9, 2013 - Segment 6 - We speak with Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler about his bid to be Maryland's next governor.
October 9, 2013
October 9, 2013 - Segment 5 - Baltimore City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods gives us an update on what's coming up this week in the City Paper.
October 9, 2013
October 9, 2013 - Segment 4 - We host a local news roundtable, covering events in Baltimore and the region, with: Dr. Lawrence Brown, Assistant Professor of Public Health at Morgan State University; and Hassan Giordano, host of Reporters Roundtable and publisher of DMVDaily.com.
October 9, 2013
October 9, 2013 - Segment 3 - Baltimore Councilman Carl Stokes, Chairman of the council's taxation committee, joins us to talk about his call for an immediate audit of the city's finance department, in light of recent reports in The Baltimore Sun revealing ongoing errors on property tax bills that have caused the city to lose out on potential revenue.
October 9, 2013
October 9, 2013 - Segment 2 - We are joined by Baltimore City Police Commissioner Anthony Batts for a conversation about public safety, crime, and law enforcement in Baltimore.
October 9, 2013
October 9, 2013 – Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of Mary Ann Shadd, publisher of Canada's first antislavery newspaper, The Provincial Freeman, and the first woman in North American to publish and edit a newspaper.
October 8, 2013
October 8, 2013 - Segment 3 - We will discuss how the government shutdown is affecting food and agriculture on the latest edition of Sound Bites! We also talk about new restrictions on arsenic in animal feed and a new free trade agreement's impact on food safety.
October 8, 2013
October 8, 2013 - Segment 2 - We showcase the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a progressive think tank that is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a series of events in Washington, DC, this weekend, featuring speakers such as Harry Belafonte, Amy Goodman, and Barbara Ehrenreich.
October 8, 2013
October 8, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the birthdays of members of The Drifters, Redbone and The Impressions.
October 7, 2013
October 7, 2013 - Segment 2 - Lea Gilmore joins us to co-host a conversation on opera at Morgan State University.
October 7, 2013
October 7, 2013 - Segment 1 - We discuss the cultural and political roots of the stalemate in Washington that has led to the government shutdown.
October 4, 2013
October 4, 2013 - Segment 3 - We rebroadcast a segment with families who have had family members killed by the police in Baltimore, and who are working to create a CommUnity park in the vacant lot where one of the men was killed.
October 4, 2013
October 4, 2013 - Segment 2 - Last weekend, I moderated a conversation between political economist Dr. Gar Alperovitz; Dr. Lester Spence and Dr. John Duda at the the Baltimore Book Festival's Radical Bookfair Pavilion about Alperovitz's book What Then Must We Do?
October 4, 2013
October 4, 2013 - Segment 1 - We talk with bestselling author Rebecca Skloot about her new book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The book follows the life of an African-American woman whose cells were taken without her consent, and which became the first immortal cell line.
October 4, 2013
October 3, 2013 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with a conversation with English guitar player Adrian Legg, who will play a concert this Saturday at Common Ground on the Hill. He is renowned on both sides of the Atlantic for his signature blend of music styles and mastery of both acoustic and electric guitar technique.
October 3, 2013
October 3, 2013 - Segment 3 - Edward Ericson Jr., staff writer for the Baltimore City Paper, joins us to talk about an article he wrote called Justice Delayed - Terrible police work sent a man to prison for a murder he didn't commit. Was it incompetence or something else?
October 3, 2013
October 3, 2013 - Segment 2 - We are joined by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, renowned author, Muslim leader, Founder and Chairman of the Cordoba Initiative, and author of Moving the Mountain: A New Vision of Islam in America; and Thomas M. Brown, President of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies to discuss the conflicts that arise in a religiously plural world and how these conflicts demand the attention of Muslims, Jews and Christians.
October 3, 2013
October 3, 2013 - Segment 1 - We host a conversation on the Affordable Care Act, which went into effect this week.
October 3, 2013
October 2, 2013 - Segment 4 - We close the show the way we started, with more commentary on the government shutdown and what it means for us from Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher of The Nation, and Tim Murphy, a reporter in Mother Jones' DC bureau.
October 3, 2013
October 2, 2013 - Segment 3 - Our friends from City Paper tell us what's inside this week's edition. Baynard Woods, City Paper senior editor, joins us for that update.
October 3, 2013
October 2, 2013 - Segment 2 - We continue our conversation on the future of transportation in Baltimore and discuss how to bring Baltimore's transportation system into the 21st century.
October 3, 2013
October 2, 2013 - Segment 1 - We start with a commentary on the government shutdown from John Nichols, Washington Correspondent for The Nation and associate editor of The Capital Times, the daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin.
October 1, 2013
October 1, 2013 - Segment 2 - It's a new episode of Sound Bites. We'll hear about cuts to SNAP benefits and a legislative provision that had been protecting Monsanto by allowing biotechnology companies to continue selling genetically-modified seeds even after a court had blocked their sale over safety concerns.
October 1, 2013
October 1, 2013 - Segment 1 - Last night at midnight, the federal government shut down. We host a roundtable to discuss the politics that led to this and the potential ramifications.